Another Leslie Night

ughh... 

So I stayed up late recording guitars for the song "Do the Math".

Since I'm a (douche) I don't know how to just embed the file to play here and I don't want to take the time to figure it out today,  (I still have to head off to federal court to get a copy of some brief and 30 pages of exhibits.) just stroll over to our (Leasure Suit) page... and listen to it there.  I also put up new 3rd pass versions of "USA #2!!!" and "Universal Quantifier".  I don't know how the band will feel about all of that, but then again, they've ignored my feelings for years.  

Like all things in my life, it's not how I imagined it would be.

In other news, I purchased a copy of Laura Marling's Alas I Cannot Swim.  I haven't yet listened to the whole thing, but I heard the song "Failure" on my new interest, All Songs Considered.  (Tip my hat to my insurance agent for that one.)

But yeah... Tonight is the beginning of Madison's first Forward Music Fest. I've got my wristband and I'm rearin to go (home and crawl into bed) for the Leslie & the Lys with Dan Deacon show.  I'm not a big Dan Deacon fan (who is? a lot of people I guess...) but it promises to be kick ass.  I may also slip on over to the Gusto performance as well.  

The Greatest nation on earth

This doesn't prove that this is just around the corner, but it makes me feel a little less comfortable when you look at the way bathtub drugs like meth spread.

I could go on about this but I'd be just throwing out ideas that other people can explain more clearly and accurately with more gusto and earnestness.

I'm being lazy today.  Sitting at work and not working is the best when you have other things you would much rather be doing.

Guitar work tonight... tweaking a bridge to smooth it out.  Redoing Do the Math.  That's about it.

Weekend update...

Andy Samberg did an nice job as Cathy, the stressed out cartoon character.

Yovee put a few new songs up on their myspace page.  They recorded these songs a long time ago.  We're finally getting to hear some of them.

I spent early Friday evening putting myself through third passes of the mixes for the album.  Then spent the later part of the evening getting drunk, the last three drinks being "Wild Berry Wine Coolers".  I could feel the sugary hangover before I went to bed.  

Joe and I recorded some vocals on my computer at the rehearsal space.  Then we listened to each of the new mixes and he decided to only record vocals on two songs next weekend.  (One of them being Jerkwater.  He probably had 70 takes on that song between February and April.  I honestly feel that he'll never be able to sing that song the way he thinks he should and will never be satisfied with it.  The trick then is to make mix good enough to get him to accept the way it is.

I'm going to re-record guitars on one song completely.  It sounds like crap the way it is now.

I also wish the humidity would go away.  It's never a good thing in my opinion.  (No one asked.)

It's not pretty...

I've been coughing up huge piles of phlegm in the mornings.  Not fun.

It's all because I'm not getting enough sleep at night.  Over the summer, I could stay up till five in the morning and then get up at quarter to noon and head to work... but not anymore.  Gotta make money sometime.

With that said, I'm low on energy.  I keep thinking about the line from the classic movie, Wayne's World, where Wayne says to Cassandra, "I once thought I had mono for an entire year.  It turns out I was just really tired."  Shaa...  I have been trying to get sleep this week but football last night (Packers and Bronco) made sure I stayed up for a while.  (And what was that guys deal with the "Zappa scored everyone's part.  He was a genius!!!"  I get it, you like Zappa and your lonely and you don't have anyone to talk at... leave us alone dude!)

I'll eventually get caught up this week.  A laundry list of things to take care of in the evenings... thanks to the band, and laundry.  Always gotta make time to get to the gym, too.  Especially on Tuesdays.  Love my Tuesdays.  

And I was telling Alison and Leah about this on Saturday...