I have a widget counting down the days to GHP and hence to the day that I might be reasonably expected to turn over a score to Stephen Czarkowski for a summer performance.
It now says 100 days and some odd hours/minutes.
Feh.
I know, I’ll begin a hysterical daily countdown post. Sort of like the 365 project, only really really neurotic and probably not as entertaining, unless you like watching a fellow Lichtenbergian melt down.
In celebration, I’ve started drinking early. And my iTunes is playing Fredo Viola’s “The Sad Song,” a miniature masterpiece, but not exactly encouraging, in so many ways.
I have a widget that tells me the date and time of my death.
And yet Jeff will try to convince you that Macs are not superior.
Some Macs are more equal than others.
Let the meltdown begin. I’ll get the popcorn ready.
When the hell is our website going to go up?
Cosmo just named the Top Place to Meet a Man in the latest edition.
The Apple Store.
My standards do not allow me to read Cosmo to learn how to meet men.
You know, home recording is absurdly easy. After my saxophone student left, I started fiddling in Garageband with my horn. Put down piano track with my keyboard, put in a funk loop, recorded the horn via built-in microphone (with a not shabby frequency response), put in a bass line with keyboard, fiddled with compression (to get some nice bass drum thump among other things), EQ, reverb, other fun options, and boom: background music good enough for the Food Network. IN NO TIME. It’s a little frightening.
In the words of Jeff Bishop, “I told you so.”
Yeah. If your goal is to create music for the Food Network.
Exactly. If you wanted to win Grammys, you’d use Logic Studio like the big guys.
I wasn’t planning on coming to visit this year, but if your piece is being performed I might try and make it.
That’s still up in the air, of course. Check back here in about 100 days. 🙂
JB, to save embarrassment in the future: never riposte with someone else’s ironic rejoinder.
And what’s wrong with the Food Network?
Surely you watched something besides Thunder Cats when you were a tike. The Cooking Show may be, along with the live broadcast of actual dramas and the Carol Burnett Show, one of the few truly good television contributions to our cultural life. You do cook, right? Something besides maize?