Post by EvilRocker on Jan 18, 2004 21:29:06 GMT -5
STUDIO DIARY #27 (November 17th - 23rd, 2000)
Friday 17th
I've had a DISASTER of a day in the studio.I worked on some backing vocal ideas I had for "Pay you Back" (I'm thinking of changing the title to Enough is Never Enough) for 2 whole hours and then when I listened back to them they just sounded too icky sweet,too perfect sounding and I was so disappointed because I thought my idea was going to work perfectly in the context of the song.And now I feel completely deflated and stupid stupid stupid which is so bloody ridiculous of me because I have to learn to be unafraid of failing.It's just that I am such a complete wreck in the studio.
It always makes me so nervous and freaked out.For instance....... jamming practically makes me physically sick.I keep thinking that the rest of the band are laughing at me.How fucked up is THAT?!?!?!?!?!?
Anyway.......on a more positive note...........we recorded a gorgeous,ambient ride cymbal this afternoon on "So like a Rose" and it sounds totally sublime. We recorded the body of this song in 15 minutes and the vocal you'll hear was from my very first take .The only other song I ever managed to pull off in one take was "Milk" off of our first album.
Pet peev:People who have dogs they never exercise.It's fucking cruel.
Saturday 18th
Oh it's so beautiful to look out of the window and watch the snowflakes flutter and fall with a winter soundtrack playing in the background. (Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp)
As I sip from my latte and tap on the computer I feel completely content and secure.It's such a marvellous feeling.
Declaration: I have decided to stop watching the television and reading newspapers for one whole week.There is just so much aggravation and chaos in the world that I find I am becoming increasingly anxious and figure I need to give myself a rest from it all.So hence the embargo.I think it'll do me good. Here's my quote of the day.
Life Wars
"The trouble with LIFE is that we understand it backwards, but have to live it forwards. We keep moving through life trying to figure it out as we go along, living experimentally,trying out different attitudes and theories, changing our minds, reversing ourselves sometimes, sometimes coming back to where we were at the beginning."
-Bishop Richard Holloway
Sunday 19th
Day off
Monday 20th
Got my hair chopped this morning and it's SUCH a relief.It was completely doing my head in!!!! I am in possesion of what might quite possibly be the thickest hair of ALL TIME.(And I am NOT joking.) It has a mind all of it's own.Every morning when I wake up it has worked itself into a massively unruly lather of curls during the night and I have to battle furiously in order to restore some semblance of order upon my head. So consequently I kept cheering loudly from my chair every time I saw another thick red lock of hair take a tumble to the floor.There's nothing more liberating than having a hair cut!!!
ha ha ha.........
Anyway..I digress.......here we go once again.Another monday. (Sigh)
Worked some more on the structure of "Parade" this evening and I shoved down a high harmony on the chorus which we drowned in reverb and stuck far back in the mix.It gives the chorus a lighter ,airier feel.
We're going to concentrate tomorrow on doing some rough mixes on 16 of the 30 songs we have in the can right now although we're still writing.We can't seem to stop in that department.
Tuesday 21st
I lifted the self imposed embargo on my media consumption only briefly last night to watch a documentary on Eleanor Roosevelt.I was absolutely enthralled. She was such an INCREDIBLE woman!!! An absolute inspiration. I had absolutely no idea that she was so politically active.....particularly with the suffragette movement, civil rights, human rights and social reform. At a time when my misanthropic tendencies are hitting an all time high,the discovery of Eleanor Roosevelt was a much needed shot in the arm.
Wednesday 22nd
All week I've been practising finger-picking exercises on my guitar like an absolute fiend and consequently the tips of my poor fingers are all sore and calloused.Why can't I simply just dial up the talent of my choosing on the internet and download it into my brain.It's so HARD learing something new.It's just so damn hard.
We're working on "Don't care" this afternoon and Duke has just put down some cool multi-layered contrapuntal guitars on one of the instrumental sections in the song and they sound so dandy! Every time it gets to that part in the song I start to waltz around the studio with a big geeky grin on my face.I can't seem to stop my feet from moving to it.(A good sign I suppose.)
Thursday 23rd
Ok. So I am a completely weak individual who changes her mind a trillion, million times a day. So sue me!
But late last night, once again I found myself lifting the media embargo to watch the ever wonderful "Charlie Rose" and besides having Ang Lee on as a guest (who was absolutely adorable and fascinating) he interviewed the poet Stanley Kunitz and I was completely blown away by his words of wisdom and poetry. They truly moved me so very deeply.
In this youth obsessed culture of ours so rarely do we get the opportunity to be exposed to people well beyond their physical prime but who are continuing to scale new heights of intellectualism, spirituality and emotional awareness.I swear.........what with both Eleanor Roosevelt and Stanley Kunitz in the one week I can't help but think to myself that perhaps we're not all so bad afterall.There is indeed beauty in this world.
Final quote of the day:
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Ha ha ha.......
Happy Thanksgiving x
Friday 17th
I've had a DISASTER of a day in the studio.I worked on some backing vocal ideas I had for "Pay you Back" (I'm thinking of changing the title to Enough is Never Enough) for 2 whole hours and then when I listened back to them they just sounded too icky sweet,too perfect sounding and I was so disappointed because I thought my idea was going to work perfectly in the context of the song.And now I feel completely deflated and stupid stupid stupid which is so bloody ridiculous of me because I have to learn to be unafraid of failing.It's just that I am such a complete wreck in the studio.
It always makes me so nervous and freaked out.For instance....... jamming practically makes me physically sick.I keep thinking that the rest of the band are laughing at me.How fucked up is THAT?!?!?!?!?!?
Anyway.......on a more positive note...........we recorded a gorgeous,ambient ride cymbal this afternoon on "So like a Rose" and it sounds totally sublime. We recorded the body of this song in 15 minutes and the vocal you'll hear was from my very first take .The only other song I ever managed to pull off in one take was "Milk" off of our first album.
Pet peev:People who have dogs they never exercise.It's fucking cruel.
Saturday 18th
Oh it's so beautiful to look out of the window and watch the snowflakes flutter and fall with a winter soundtrack playing in the background. (Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp)
As I sip from my latte and tap on the computer I feel completely content and secure.It's such a marvellous feeling.
Declaration: I have decided to stop watching the television and reading newspapers for one whole week.There is just so much aggravation and chaos in the world that I find I am becoming increasingly anxious and figure I need to give myself a rest from it all.So hence the embargo.I think it'll do me good. Here's my quote of the day.
Life Wars
"The trouble with LIFE is that we understand it backwards, but have to live it forwards. We keep moving through life trying to figure it out as we go along, living experimentally,trying out different attitudes and theories, changing our minds, reversing ourselves sometimes, sometimes coming back to where we were at the beginning."
-Bishop Richard Holloway
Sunday 19th
Day off
Monday 20th
Got my hair chopped this morning and it's SUCH a relief.It was completely doing my head in!!!! I am in possesion of what might quite possibly be the thickest hair of ALL TIME.(And I am NOT joking.) It has a mind all of it's own.Every morning when I wake up it has worked itself into a massively unruly lather of curls during the night and I have to battle furiously in order to restore some semblance of order upon my head. So consequently I kept cheering loudly from my chair every time I saw another thick red lock of hair take a tumble to the floor.There's nothing more liberating than having a hair cut!!!
ha ha ha.........
Anyway..I digress.......here we go once again.Another monday. (Sigh)
Worked some more on the structure of "Parade" this evening and I shoved down a high harmony on the chorus which we drowned in reverb and stuck far back in the mix.It gives the chorus a lighter ,airier feel.
We're going to concentrate tomorrow on doing some rough mixes on 16 of the 30 songs we have in the can right now although we're still writing.We can't seem to stop in that department.
Tuesday 21st
I lifted the self imposed embargo on my media consumption only briefly last night to watch a documentary on Eleanor Roosevelt.I was absolutely enthralled. She was such an INCREDIBLE woman!!! An absolute inspiration. I had absolutely no idea that she was so politically active.....particularly with the suffragette movement, civil rights, human rights and social reform. At a time when my misanthropic tendencies are hitting an all time high,the discovery of Eleanor Roosevelt was a much needed shot in the arm.
Wednesday 22nd
All week I've been practising finger-picking exercises on my guitar like an absolute fiend and consequently the tips of my poor fingers are all sore and calloused.Why can't I simply just dial up the talent of my choosing on the internet and download it into my brain.It's so HARD learing something new.It's just so damn hard.
We're working on "Don't care" this afternoon and Duke has just put down some cool multi-layered contrapuntal guitars on one of the instrumental sections in the song and they sound so dandy! Every time it gets to that part in the song I start to waltz around the studio with a big geeky grin on my face.I can't seem to stop my feet from moving to it.(A good sign I suppose.)
Thursday 23rd
Ok. So I am a completely weak individual who changes her mind a trillion, million times a day. So sue me!
But late last night, once again I found myself lifting the media embargo to watch the ever wonderful "Charlie Rose" and besides having Ang Lee on as a guest (who was absolutely adorable and fascinating) he interviewed the poet Stanley Kunitz and I was completely blown away by his words of wisdom and poetry. They truly moved me so very deeply.
In this youth obsessed culture of ours so rarely do we get the opportunity to be exposed to people well beyond their physical prime but who are continuing to scale new heights of intellectualism, spirituality and emotional awareness.I swear.........what with both Eleanor Roosevelt and Stanley Kunitz in the one week I can't help but think to myself that perhaps we're not all so bad afterall.There is indeed beauty in this world.
Final quote of the day:
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Ha ha ha.......
Happy Thanksgiving x