That's the only word that could possibly attempt to depict my feelings about describing all the events that have come to pass since the last Shoelove blog post.
I think I'll start with the end - or in this case the present. Right now I have been busy playing Final Fantasy 8 in German for about the past 10 hours. To be honest, it has really started to piss me off. But now I'm just waiting to meet this guy/girl/monster at Moonstruck at 9:30.
Wait.
"Did he just say nine thirty on a Saturday morning?" Yeah, that's right. There's only one thing that could keep me up at this time of day: money.
Some crazy face wants me to tutor them conversational english, so I am meeting them to talk about it today. I have no idea who this person is or what they look at, but I think their name is "Sue". Hopefully it isn't a transvestite. Well, even then...if they gave me ten bucks I'd do it.
So, moving on to the past, I went to IMC "yesterday" for the weekly shows meeting, and, as usual, there were not that many people there. Actually, when I got there a group of 5 or so old dudes were talking about some sort of local lawsuit involving the first amendment - I wasn't paying too much attention. This slowly (d)evolved into the shows meeting after some new guy showed up asking the obvious n00b question: "is this the shows meeting?"
"yeah, it will be in a few minutes..."
So we sorta half introduced ourselves, even though I had met....fuck, I can't even remember his name. Well, I met him before. He's the....I dunno...he's in charge of the building or something.
Man, I keep breaking my concentration by listening to our WEFT recordings...I haven't even gotten to that. I guess I'm just bothered every time I hear my voice. Perhaps this is a sign that I should be the dedicated theremin player.And there is this goddamn fly in my room that keeps jumping on my leg. AHHH I WANT TO DESTROY YOU.
ok...where was i? Yeah, IMC. So I say "yeah the 6th of july is cancelled and i was gonna say that last week but last week's meeting was cancelled, sooooo...." and they were ok with that. Then I say "i'm thinking about the 9th of august, but there is this other dude trying to have some punk show that day". Then they said he didn't even end up doing a couple shows he set up, so they were thinking about just letting me have the 9th for myself. Hmm, ok. They said if he shows up to the next meeting then I might have to "work it out with him". I think by that they mean "duel each other with sporks".
The newcomer said something about wanting to set up a monthly electronic show on thursdays....his first one will be sometime in august...23rd maybe? He sounded like a cool guy. He definitely had some neat ideas.
Somehow we ended up talked about Seth Fein - I think the lady was talking about bringing lots of people in, and she said something like "Oh, well Seth Fein can bring in hundreds of people" and then I asked if he booked at the IMC and they said yeah, and it all went from there. Well, actually we didn't say very much, but it was neat to see that all 4 people at the meeting knew seth in some way.
Then what was before that...hmmm...probably me having the ultimate hell with myspace. I still haven't fixed that stupid shit. I must have uploaded those 4 songs 5 times each under different settings every time. It just doesn't work. Nick said something about needing to be 256 kbps, and I did that but it still didn't work. Then I looked under "Help" on myspace, and boy was I in for a treat. It was all organized like some sort of shitty faq, but for some reason questions were repeated multiple times.....and none of them had anything to do with the settings for the songs you want upload. Verpiss dich, Myspace!
Then before that I was working on the recordings of our WEFT show. I did some "enhancements" to make them sound a little better, did some extra vocals to fix a screw up of mine on "Daisy", and then sent 'em out to people. For some reason the first few are louder than the last few....The quality is pretty good, but....well, read on.
Yeah, our show went ok. There were quite a few technical issues and little minor things. Overall it was pretty good. I didn't really get any of my delay pedal sound through, so none of my screams were really how I wanted them. As anyone who was at the show would know, Dave's bass amp mysteriously cut out in the middle of the set. Later we supposedly pinpointed this problem to the "speaker input circuit". Poor Dave - he has had never ending amp problems as long as I have known him.
I don't know why, but the sound guy was intent on having a microphone that needed phantom power, even though it was fucking OBVIOUS that they had sm58's available. Would it really have sounded that BAD if we used a normal stage mic(come on, this is shoelove for god's sake)? i used a fucking HARMONICA MICROPHONE for practice! then he had to run my delay pedal through a loop, giving me absolutely NO control over how much of the delay was over my vocal.
Don't get me wrong - he was a cool guy. We had a nice talk about the future of the music industry and the transition from product to service. And he knew about Jane's solo marimba album, so who couldn't like him?
So, whatever....shit happened, things weren't perfect, and we all made mistakes, but life goes on.
Speaking of which, Dave called me to tell me about some supposed demo recording we will be doing this week. If I knew what song we were thinking about I would tell you, but I don't. Whatever it is, it will probably be chosen through the same process as the selection of our lyrics: animal sacrifice and black magic.
So, it's time to take a shower so I don't look like the bum I really am for this new student of mine. It's always important to look good for the first impression. I hope they don't make me buy a fucking coffee at moonstruck. God, I hate that place. Actually, I think I'll end this with the bizarre email I got about why we couldn't meet at Guiliani's:
This week I'm only available on Saturday
morning.
If you are, how about meeting at 9:30? And for the location, can we meet
somewhere other than the Guilliani? I used to like the place but I found
many mosquitos one day and stopped goind there. What about meeting at
Moonstruck?
Thank you,
Sue
-t
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