hi errbody. quick update:
- i'm officially done gathering samples for my music project. the total count is 3,173 samples. ultimately, this number will grow since i will be chopping each sample into smaller samples. in terms of individual sounds, though, that's how many i have. i'm going to take about a week off from music to maintain my sanity, and then i'm going to pick and choose which samples i want to use for each song. and finally, sequencing. my goal is to complete a song a week. i know it's ambitious, but i feel like i'm on borrowed time at the moment. more on this below.
- new radiohead comes out in a matter of hours. it's called in rainbows and i'm super mega stoked. i was talking to abbu a few weeks back about sources of inspiration for our respective music composition processes. i'm pretty sure we're both going to get a shitload of inspiration from in rainbows. i'm half tempted to stay up and wait till i get that email notification telling me the download is available. oh, if you didn't know, you can choose how much you want to pay for the download version of the album. you can pay $10, $20, or nothing at all. inrainbows.com.
- i finally learned how to solve the rubik's cube. if you need a cube solved, hit me up.
- i haven't really seen people as of late. i'm beginning to forget what people look like.
- there's about $1000 worth of crap i want to buy. logic tells me to hold off until i have income. i should listen to it.
- on the topic of borrowed time, it's pretty clear that my dad doesn't want me living in the condo anymore. i'm not getting along with my dad very well at the moment. he's getting irritated that i'm not going to job interviews, and that i don't leave the condo ever since i'm always working on my project. i guess he misses his privacy, and in addition, he doesn't really see eye to eye with how i'm living my life currently. i guess i don't really blame him. to most, it would seem like i'm wasting my time. the truth of the matter is, we never had a real "father/son" type of relationship, and we rarely communicate about anything except money. so it's understandable that he doesn't know where my desire to make music comes from. and i suppose it would seem like a random interest since i've never talked to him about music before. i guess it just goes to show you what he really knows about me. again, i don't blame him. i've never done anything with music before except play it too loud. i would have started doing music stuff sooner, but i could never afford the equipment. and now that i have everything i need to make music; the only thing i'm missing is time to work on it. i could try to explain this all to my dad, but he probably wouldn't get it. or give a shit. my mom's cool, tho. so the tentative plan is, finish my project asap, find a job, and move out.