May 8, 2007

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue May 08, 2007 5:20 am

May 8!

I was up at 5am working out the final bits of my Nur Ein entry. Got it done and submitted, threw down some joe, and headed off to work. It sounds okay in the car, and not bad on the work computer speakers. A little clippy, but I think it's okay. It'll have to be; I doubt I'll get a chance to improve it between now and the deadline.

Tonight I might be headed up to Mojo Studio in Franconia to do some keyboard tracks for a local band called Pay The Piper.

I just got the preliminary show schedule from The Balsams. It looks like I'll be up there at least a dozen times this summer. Sweet!!

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:18 am

posting this from the floor of the BIO convention in Boston.

yesterday, who should walk by our booth but Bono. or a very good imposter.

i gave him a bottled water. it sure as hell sounded like him when he thanked me.

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:26 am

I got up at 4:30 this morning. I've decided to take the bus more often, but to do so I need to get up an hour earlier. So, yeah, I'm tired. Stayed up late watching 24 that I had DVR'd earlier. It was fantastic! I can't wait for next week's. Only 2 more left. Phil watched it this morning when he got home, so we can hopefully talk about it later.

No meetings at work today.

Lots of training to schedule and coordinate. My "To Do" list gets shorter and then I keep having to add to it... will it ever go away?

What did you have for breakfast today?

Not quite as interesting as yesterday's question...

I had a Banana Bread Quaker Oatmeal Square and a Diet Coke.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:35 am

Jack! How's the convention going? Other than meeting Bono, that is.
I wanted to get down to Beantown for drinks, but life has gotten in the way. I'm disappointed that you're only two hours away and I still can't make it work.

Oh, and for breakfast today, I had the aforementioned cup of coffee, and that's it.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:36 am

jack wrote:posting this from the floor of the BIO convention in Boston.

yesterday, who should walk by our booth but Bono. or a very good imposter.

i gave him a bottled water. it sure as hell sounded like him when he thanked me.

I was on a flight from Melboune yesterday sitting a few rows behind Terri and Bindi Irwin. That's my brush of fame for the week. (I also saw SBS newsreader Anton Enis in the Qantas Club at the airport - but I chickened out of asking him if his middle name started with a "P")

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:26 am

Yesterday's moment of coolness: we had our final meeting of our Sound Design class, which was pretty much a "show your projects" day. I had done a bunch of still photos of a two-day photo shoot (a very short film which is based loosely on the lyrics to songs from Abbey Road; to give you an idea of where the state of the project is right now, the director delivered the "final edit" of the video a few days ago and the title of the movie is spelled wrong in the opening credits. He also left out one of the actors' names in the "starring" list, the actor who also just happened to be the producer of the film...). Anyway, I had taken a bunch of my still shots and used them to make a "making of" video using my SF song "A Variation on Two." In my end credits, I listed "music by King Arthur / http://www.songfight.org " and one of the guys in class said, "you're a songfighter? I keep thinking about wanting to do that, but I never get around to it..." So maybe we'll pick up a new participant, although he's also the guy who refused to show his project in class yesterday because "I'm not happy with it, and I don't let other people see my work until I'm satisfied with what I've done." So he may have a tough time around here...

Breakfast has just been coffee so far, but my mom's pool therapy class goes out to a Mexican restaurant after class on Tuesdays, so I'll be getting a big lunch, and we had a big Indian (Bombay potatoes, stew, nan) at home last night. [edit: make that a big Indian dinner last night]

I'm kinda in the mood to do some recording today, but I still don't have what I'd consider a worthy idea for "Paris." Maybe I'll just get "Evil April" mixed down (I keep planning to do that and then getting distracted with other stuff) or something. Take my mom to pool class and lunch, take those shaggy self-portraits and get a haircut... actually, I guess a lot of today's goals and plans are the goals and plans I didn't get done yesterday...

Charles

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:39 am

My breakfast: A bowl of Frosted Flakes and some Thomas' English Toasting Bread.

Today so far has been a long boring train ride where I began to wonder what I'm going to do musically. My band, KBS, has been in dire straits from the get go and with Luke away for the summer, we are on hiatus. So I wrote some ideas on what to do next. Then I went to work and as I expected last week, heads are beginning to roll around here. So I'm just ducking and covering and trying to get through the day.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Tue May 08, 2007 8:57 am

Breakfast: Cup of tea (out of coffee, and pondering weaning myself off the devil's urine, yet again) and a cigarette.

High point of morning thus far: Looking forward to laying down acoustic drums for the Nur Ein entry.

Low point of morning thus far: Seeing my upstairs neighbor's car parked out front. She's usually at work by now. Now I've got to get them done tonight after I get home from work, damnit.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue May 08, 2007 9:33 am

Hello SF'ers.
Breakfast = One of those saucer sized cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing that are so big, you have to eat it with a fork, nuked for 20 seconds and slathered with butter, two cups of coffee.
Probably have to skip lunch today.
Made good headway on my round 1 song last night.
Start recording vox tonight.
Got to run.
Live, Love, Rock.
Chris, signing ooot.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 08, 2007 9:48 am

The day has been odd. But not extraordinary enough to mention. I'm about to make a Mix CD for a friend who asks me for music I think is genius....

I also joined Facebook, thanks to a request from my sister. I looked around and already the thing makes me wanna gouge out my eyes. It's like myspace as done by the makers of One Hour Photo. Creepy ass soulless place.

Phil. Redmon. · Post by **Phil. Redmon.** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:12 am

eggs, potato, onion, turkey sausage, toast.

Leg hurts! Hate job!

I've been wondering what a guitar would sound like if it had a wooden C shape, that arched over the strings, with a pickup wired into it, so it was listening from the opposite side, you know? So you'd have a pickup on both sides of the strings.

I wonder what every combination would sound like. SC on body, hanging humbucker, sustainer above, p-90 below, and so on.

I need henchmen.

Also: Heather turned down loaning the kids to gypsies so we could lay in bed eating corn dogs and watching star wars and stuff and stuff. This morning. Turned it down. In favor of going to work.

So basically, the world makes no sesne.

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Tue May 08, 2007 11:44 am

Breakfast: 3 cups of coffee, half a packet of cheap Tesco's own Rich Tea biscuits, somewhere in the region of 5 cigarettes (cheap cigarettes!)

Picked up some photographs from Jessops up the City Centre, spent £30 on new wiper blades for the car, went and saw my Sister, had a chat about comics with my eldest nephew, deposited some money into the bank (Whoopee!).

Lunch: More coffee, more cigarettes!! and a Mars bar.

Went to work for 4 hours (it's my day off, though I still do overtime on it

)

Dinner: Some mess of beans, hot dogs and rice that was.... ok!

Mastered up Phil Wages Party at Kp's track, sounds nice and round!
Read Omega Flight #1, pretty good!!

Didn't meet anyone famous

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:52 am

Cleaning and packing. Woke up way too late after drinking too much last night and now I'm running on my breakfast of nothing and am blasting Black Flag. These truly are the best years of my life!

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:03 pm

Dude, how can you still be packing?

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:09 pm

Chinese food for lunch. I'm like General Gau's Pinata over here. Oof.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:25 pm

took a nap yesterday night, woke up when a friend called wanting to come over. ended up making her a sandwich, having a couple screwdrivers, was up until a quarter to four. woke up at eight thirty, dicked around on the internet, went to the gym, did an hour of cardio with a buddy, now i'm on the radio until 6pm doing my show.

blue · Post by **blue** » Tue May 08, 2007 2:49 pm

woke up at the bullshit hour of 930, gave a class on one of my projects at work, quiznos for lunch, featuring some crazy guy wandering table to table annoying people and reeking of wintergreen skoal.

helping a nur einer to victory tonight.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue May 08, 2007 2:51 pm

Third Tuesdayhere at new job, uneventful. Just glad to be working full time again at what one might call a 'real job'. Going home to mix down new GTG material.

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Does anybody care?

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:07 pm

I read it and I care... if you think that no one cares, then why'd you decide to post here? Just wondering. Do you care that I care?

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:23 pm

blue wrote:woke up at the bullshit hour of 930, gave a class on one of my projects at work, quiznos for lunch, featuring some crazy guy wandering table to table annoying people and reeking of wintergreen skoal.

helping a nur einer to victory tonight.

i had quiznos too... mine was bad, though. some roast beef thing with au jus. not a tasty sandwich. why are you helping some dude that isn't me, ass?

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Tue May 08, 2007 4:53 pm

Breakfast: Muesli and bran with saltanas in it. Fibre is your friend.

Scanned a bunch of photos for Legs last night. Its her dads 50th birthday soon, so she is making the old photo board. Apparently you can't beat the classics.

I am just too tired to be at work. I wonder if they'll notice if i just take a nap? We used to have a Sales guy who would lay under his desk and have a kip. He had his own office, though, so it would kind of work for him. I'm in a communal work area, so I think the other Monkeys would notice if I am snoozing under the desk. I also think they wouldn't think twice about kicking me while I'm down there. Not out of spite, just because they can.

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Tue May 08, 2007 5:06 pm

Today's song = <a href="http://glenncase.blogspot.com/2007/05/d ... w.html">De La Soul - Rock Co. Kane Flow</a>

Breakfast = Nature Valley Sweet and Salty Peanut Bar (I was in a hurry this morning)

Some things I did today:

Worked.
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 82">Joined Facebook</a>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2 ... f">Started a Song Fight! group on Facebook</a>
Went back and paid cash for my haircut. (They know us, and they can't take debit.)

To do:

<a href="http://pbc-productions.com/CaptainS/Main.html">Captain S</a> audio like a mutha tonight.

ROCK!

Glenn Case