It’s been a little over a week out of coaching and RHLA. How’ve I been?
I’ve been slacking a lot. I haven’t been used to so much free time, so for the first couple days, I wasn’t doing much. I think I got over that, so I figure I’ll fill in the time I was coaching with other things.
Home Cleanliness
At home, my mom and I have accumulated a lot of stuff. It’s only obvious that after we got Public Storage, we should utilize it.
Her goal is to get rid of as much stuff as we can so we can get the carpet changed. My goal is for our apartment to be as minimalistic as possible. I want only the things we need in there. The only problem is that most of the furniture we have is more for storage than for regular use, and that same furniture has been with us since the 80s. (It’d be hard to persuade her to get rid of some of it.)
I will sort through my clothes because I’m sure I don’t wear them all. Mom says she’d like to hand them down to my cousins in the Philippines, but she doesn’t ship stuff to them regularly, so I’ll probably give them to a Goodwill or something.
Guitar
I don’t know too much about guitar. Sure, I can read and play off tabs, and I subconsciously know a little of whatever scale Tom Morello uses. But, I really need to learn so much more. Technique, notes, scales – I should be able to learn lots this summer on my free time.
Question: Can you recommend any instructional DVDs, sites, or articles?
Band
Doc’s been gone for a month, but fortunately he’ll be back tomorrow. Bill’s on a retreat this week, but when he gets back Friday, we should be at full force. We’ve recorded a handful of songs (on separate tracks), so when Doc’s back, he’ll lay down the vocals to complete them. I believe Bill is going to find someone to remaster them. Then, we’ll have our demo to give out! (Er, sell?)
What we’re excited about is that we bought drum mics, a condenser mic, and a mixer so the drums get recorded with better quality.
Fact: We recording all the drum tracks we’ll be using in our demo in either Bill’s living room or James’ living room, in hopes that the audio would sound better. (see pictures)
Question: If you live in proximity to Arcadia, CA, can you get in touch with me about remastering or producing our songs? Maybe a quote per song?
Work
This summer, I’m gong to be working 4 days/week. I aspire to earn enough money to pay off all my credit card debt. (It’s a lot.) It’s kind of slow at work, but I’ve ascertained some projects I can do to keep myself preoccupied. My goal there is to have cleaned up my office drastically, which hasn’t changed a whole lot since we first moved there. There’s so many old computers I’m sure we could get rid of them.
My Music Collection
I have to admit something – the majority of my music isn’t legit. *gasp* However, with La la, more hours at work, and Half.com, I think I’ll try to get as many CDs as I can. I’m so excited that I could possibly get rid of all the unwanted CDs I’ve been storing all these years. I did delete a bunch of songs from my music library on my computer, so that’s a good step, too.
School
I’m heading back to Cal Poly! Well, I will have applied by the deadline in three days, but I took the two classes at PCC that I failed at Citrus – and passed both with a B! (I am so excited I passed Logic, you have no idea!) I’m majoring in Computer Information Systems. I’m hoping I’ll be done in two years, three max. Yeah, I know I’ve been at it for awhile, but…nevermind. No excuses.
That’s all!
I’d write more often if I could only think of topics. I’m sure the ideas would flood in if I didn’t think about it at the Write screen, huh?