Getting Close to Finishing My EP

I’m here in the studio wrapping up the final few hours of recording. Just laid down the vox for 3 of the songs and getting ready to pluck some acoustic guitar. Tomorrow is the first day of mixing. Always a good feeling. Earlier today I reformatted my laptop. Ahhh… nice clean hard drive. I feel like I just defragged. Dan, you know the feeling. I needed to improve performance for some final renderings and it was time to backup and reorganize my files too. I’m typing this little blog entry on what feels like a new computer.

Last night I rearranged my flat (that’s for you Nathan and Mick). Ever feel like doing that? I get in these moods, where I think, “That chair would really look better over there.” Several hours later, I’m knee deep in all my crap trying to figure out where everything is now supposed to go. It always takes a lot longer than I anticipate. The good part is that every time I do this, I get rid of something. So, the question remains: How many times must I do this until there is nothing left and I’ve reached Interior Design Nirvana?

While I was tearing my place apart I was watching the devil (aka TV). A commercial came on that said something to the effect of, “Home. Home is a wonderful place where all your stuff is.” [Video is of lady folding clothes in bedroom. She tries to stuff a sweater in the drawer.] “But sometimes there’s just too much stuff.” At this point I’m thinking the commercial is calling for Good Will donations or some other type of “donate your stuff to us” campaign. Nope. The commercial was for a furniture store. They were implying that instead of getting rid of stuff you should come buy more stuff to put your excessive stuff in. Isn’t that the American Way?

The reason I was actually watching TV was the Mets game. Did you see the catch that Endy Chavez made? Couldn’t believe it. That ball was gone, over the fence, and he jumps up and snags it before it disappears into the abyss. Then he thinks fast enough to throw to second to catch the double play at first. Nice baseball. That’s what it’s all about.

Well, back to work. Got an album to finish up.

Scott