Hmmmm.

So, yesterday I was chatting to my neighbour's daughter, and it turns out she's in the local Folk combo "Single Malt". So I invited them in to see the studio. A more refreshing reaction in that "Wow, this is like (person I forgot but I think I know)'s studio" rather than the usual dumbstruck expression - that came later when I pointed out I can't actually play any of this stuff well. However she thought that being able to get a note out of a violin was a good start.

On the one hand, I'm finding there are musicians - proper ones - everywhere in Hawick. It turns out local dance-flash in the pan QFX's main person Kirk Turnbull is actually doing incredibly well as a producer for people like Mick Hucknall (whom I dreamed was dead yesterday - then I dreamed about Chevettes. I want another Chevette. I dreamed I had bought a light blue one and found a yellow one I wanted to swap it for), and Keith Middlemiss (a name which keeps cropping up) lives just up the road and has what sounds like a modular of some sort - "It's a huge synth, from the 70s. It's massive and complicated".

On the other hand it drives home just how wasted all this stuff is on me. Anyone got £10,000 and want a studio-from-hell? £12,000 and I'll include my G5 system with both monitors and all the video software.

Seriously.

I am wondering if I should go ahead with the live/production room concept I originally had with a view to making it very worthwhile indeed - there are people offering video editing services of utter banality and 'music composition' which ends up sounding like the backing track of a Bontempi replayed on General MIDI soundsets. I could do better if I had a finished concept I wanted to work towards, I think, just with sheer bloody mindedness. Perhaps not as accomplished, perhaps taking me considerably longer, but I'm learning at the same time.

Dammit. I just wish I had both lyrics and music. I keep getting 1/2 or 3/4 of a song in lyrics, but can never think of music to go with it. I'm just not creative enough, dammit! ARGH! Thinking about the music that local bands produce... I could probably write lyrics along the lines of the Rolling Hills o' the Borders, but I don't want to. I can write comedy songs about cheese but I don't want to do that, either.

Random phone calls!

Gavin just called. I've got meself an EDAC/Jack lead for the ADAT! Whoohoo, as they say! That means balanced levels across the whole recording system (in and out) for the ADATs.

Need another rack, methinks. Time to rationalise the kit layout and get both ADATs working for 16-track recording (not simultanous though, I'll have to bounce tracks or something).

I also have a copy of Final Cut Express 2 available because he doesn't want it having discovered he can get a 50% discount on Pro Suite.

PEEEEEEEEEEEEEPS!!!!!!

Wow! Thanks to krysania1 I have easter candy goodness. So many Peeps and related products!



Of course, I can't let that packet of yellow rabbits that has partly opened just sit there... they might dry out... *nodnod*

In the finest tradition...

Now I just need 100 more.

"Uses for a Dead Pope"

And another

Everyone loves it, after all! A handy home Pope, though most people got them in the 70s as a wedding present.

OMFG! THE POPE WAS A VOGON!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cavalorn/168138.html

Last one for now, I promise...

Knife sharpener!