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:: Sunday, August 21, 2005 ::

So of course, after seeing the film "Ray," I spent the morning in the studio fuhtzing around with some gospel style on the piano. Stride pianists make it look deceptively easy-- the juice is in the baseline, but the color is in the ornament. I wrote and recorded another song after work yesterday. Again, it's only in rough form, but I managed to capture the idea I was having at the moment. (Seems like everything I have is in study form, not polished, needs to be redone.) It's called "Lover Go Home" and came out sounding kind of like a Cowboy Junkies ballad. It's nice to have the bass in working order again. I tried to compress it enough to stick it up on the atticproductions website, but their stinkin' free server won't accept anything larger than around 300MB. I'm definitely going to have to upgrade for the sake of both file size and bandwidth allowances (for downloading), but I'm not sure if this is the company with whom I want to do that. It was good experience to begin learning HTML, and to get an idea of what kind of structure I'd want, but it's THEIR structure that seems to trip me up. You can code all you want, but one accidental "SiteBuilder" button push and it dumps all of your original work and reverts back to their trite and ugly little templates. (Pastels and "cutesy" designs-- ugh!) I did score some free slick templates that are pretty flashy (some even use Flash), but I kind of like being able to make changes on a miniscule level and even just building from the simple things I know.

I'm falling behind in other projects, though. I know that I could do this kind of work 24/7 and be quite content if it paid me a living wage. It seems I need nice, long blocks of time to really get involved in a zone, and it feels like I'm always having to cut it short to do things like go to work, prepare things in order to go to work, and oh yeah-- sleep so that I'm rested for work. But then I know that if this was my "work," I might feel differently about it, given the pressure to produce an income. I might settle for selling my songs to others who can perform and record them better than I. Or I might just keep on producing this crap in the privacy of my own life until I die (or am unable to do it any more), and let its value be decided posthumously.

:: Anne 11:47 AM [smartass remarks] ::
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