books, baseball and music
been writing a lot lately, making some good progress on the new onlyone record. some shapes and colours are becoming apparent, and the new stuff has a wild sound to it. very excited about this.
just got word about a baseball-related recording project that will be very time-sensitive. gonna start working on that tonight. this will be really cool if it pans out, and i think it could. i'll be in pretty stiff competition with some production houses across the country, so it's by no means a given. but what fun anyway! my hat will be in the ring with the rest of 'em, and why not me, huh?
next week i'm helping T Max record a demo of his anti-war song for later production with a full band. that'll be cool, as i've played with T before but have never had him over for recording in the studio.
just finished reading this GREAT Teddy Roosevelt book The River of Doubt, about his trip through the Amazon rainforest surveying an as-yet-unsurveyed major tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. very well-written, quite a page-turner. and very informative, too. it wasn't happy just describing the adventures of the group, which were many and each more dangerous than the last, but it also delved into the extremely diverse ecology of the rainforest, the isolation of this portion of the world and its unique effect upon the evolution of species within its basin, South American history and more. one of the more surprisingly fascinating detours was a foray into the myriad of different tree species and how they compete for their reproductivity.
an amazing book. i was disappointed to finish it so quickly. this morning on the way out i grabbed It's A Slippery Slope, by Spalding Grey. this was one of the books i got Lexi for christmas. she's already finished them, and i thought if she's such a big fan of his work he's got to be pretty awesome. i'm only familiar with the staged monologues, and i use "familiar" here really just to mean that i've seen them once. just Monster in a Box and Grey's Anatomy.
i saw Grey's first, and it really put me off right from the top.
**** darrell, if you're by chance reading, you'll want to skip this part. ****
the beginning was various "real people" in interview clips describing in succession some sort of horrible eyeball-related accident that they had experienced, and they each describe it with some curious detachment ("...and i looked in the mirror and sure enough there's this 6-inch hunting knife sticking out of my eyesocket..."). and one of them would've made the point. but there were like six in succession.
**** d-man -- you can tune back in now ****
so, that being the introduction to mr. grey's work, this is how familiar i am with him. once the heebie-jeebies subsided, i did finish Grey's Anatomy, and it was quite good. Monster in a Box was even better. i like his style.
so anyway, i'm only a few pages or so into Slippery Slope now. but it flows nicely. enjoying it a lot so far.
wish me luck on the baseball piece!
just got word about a baseball-related recording project that will be very time-sensitive. gonna start working on that tonight. this will be really cool if it pans out, and i think it could. i'll be in pretty stiff competition with some production houses across the country, so it's by no means a given. but what fun anyway! my hat will be in the ring with the rest of 'em, and why not me, huh?
next week i'm helping T Max record a demo of his anti-war song for later production with a full band. that'll be cool, as i've played with T before but have never had him over for recording in the studio.
just finished reading this GREAT Teddy Roosevelt book The River of Doubt, about his trip through the Amazon rainforest surveying an as-yet-unsurveyed major tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. very well-written, quite a page-turner. and very informative, too. it wasn't happy just describing the adventures of the group, which were many and each more dangerous than the last, but it also delved into the extremely diverse ecology of the rainforest, the isolation of this portion of the world and its unique effect upon the evolution of species within its basin, South American history and more. one of the more surprisingly fascinating detours was a foray into the myriad of different tree species and how they compete for their reproductivity.
an amazing book. i was disappointed to finish it so quickly. this morning on the way out i grabbed It's A Slippery Slope, by Spalding Grey. this was one of the books i got Lexi for christmas. she's already finished them, and i thought if she's such a big fan of his work he's got to be pretty awesome. i'm only familiar with the staged monologues, and i use "familiar" here really just to mean that i've seen them once. just Monster in a Box and Grey's Anatomy.
i saw Grey's first, and it really put me off right from the top.
**** darrell, if you're by chance reading, you'll want to skip this part. ****
the beginning was various "real people" in interview clips describing in succession some sort of horrible eyeball-related accident that they had experienced, and they each describe it with some curious detachment ("...and i looked in the mirror and sure enough there's this 6-inch hunting knife sticking out of my eyesocket..."). and one of them would've made the point. but there were like six in succession.
**** d-man -- you can tune back in now ****
so, that being the introduction to mr. grey's work, this is how familiar i am with him. once the heebie-jeebies subsided, i did finish Grey's Anatomy, and it was quite good. Monster in a Box was even better. i like his style.
so anyway, i'm only a few pages or so into Slippery Slope now. but it flows nicely. enjoying it a lot so far.
wish me luck on the baseball piece!
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