slowburn

I’ve started drinking coffee to help me finish this thing. I had managed to avoid the coffee habit my entire life, but I got tired of constantly drinking carbonated high fructose saturated soda things to keep me going, so I switched to high octane coffee. Lots of cream, lots of sugar, because that’s how I roll. If you still remember, I started the project by training for a marathon for the first time, so finishing it with a new bad habit provides some nice closure. It would be a lot cooler if it was something like heroin, but I’ve never been very good at projecting a rock star image. Anyway, it is keeping me going.

I am currently reading the 33 1/3 book on Celine Dion’s “Let’s Talk About Love”. I have mentioned this series of books before, they are really quite excellent, and cover the ground from albums like My Bloody Valentine “Loveless” to Sly Stone “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” to the Beach Boys “Pet Sounds”. So what the hell are they doing with a book about Celine and the record that spawned that godawful Titanic song? Basically, it’s a book by a guy who has always hated Celine, trying to figure out why people like her. And why he likes what he likes. And why people like what they do in general. There are a million ways a book like this could go wrong, and end up making you hate the author for being a pretentious hipster jackass as much as you hate Celine for being trite and schmaltzy, but so far the book is excellent and provoking a lot of thoughts. Definitely worth reading, especially in public, if you enjoy receiving puzzled and/or disgusted glances, which I do.

Progress on the last set of three songs has been very good. I bounced out the first rough mix of the three and have been listening to it outside the studio on the living room stereo today. I will go through a few cycles of listening, adjusting things, re-listening, re-adjusting, until things are sounding good and then put it up here and move on to the last mixes of the full album. Things were delayed a bit earlier this week when I went through a nasty little stretch with the stomach flu which is best not elaborated on. But as of today I am pretty much back to 100%, and we continue to move forward. I’ll have the next set of three for you to listen to shortly.