Pencils down please.

I stayed up....very late. I made a mad dash to the post office after getting enough sleep to function. So the CD is off. I will post it tomorrow right here if you'd like to listen but I burned a CD and listened to it and some of the stuff got truncated. So I'll make a couple of adjustments to make sure the songs are on there in full. That was my fault.

I'm kinda glad it's over and kinda sad. One thing I realized I can do is work and make music and write words and music that I can be proud of. What I realize I'm not very good at is mixing, and EQing and other such technical things I need to work on. I'm also not good at doing every single thing in the world myself. I would love to hear this record one day with real musicans playing on it. I had my friend J come over the other evening and lay down some piano on top of mine for the song "Dimly" as well as adding some mega ELO string sections on it. It was nice just being able to get that. My friend Ian had been providing bass for me and his recording rig broke in the last week so I had to play some of the bass myself. Also not conducive for good music. And all of the flat and sour notes throughout the process? As I listened I was going to go back and repair them but I got a MASSIVE cold this week! I could barely talk much less sing.

Don't get me wrong I'm not whining or making excuses for my music, I'm quite pleased with what I've accomplished, even if it brings out (as you can tell from past posts) some neurosis in me. I'm just thinking I'd like to hear some of these songs...hell all of them, executed in a manner that's more fitting than the constraints of time and ability. But I did it. I was supposed to have 35 minutes. I stretched to have 31, but I have 11 original songs, and the rule was 35 minutes or 10 songs.

Some songs are 5 and 6 minutes. Some are 1 and 2 minutes. I decided to quit letting things hang me up on what is and what isn't a song. If I have a verse and a chorus of a song and that's all the lyrics I need to say what I'm saying then why not just move on and call it a song?

I have some powerpop, southern rock, metal, some trip hop, country, jazz, yacht rock, pop,....not because I'm trying to be eclectic. Because those things are all at least a small part of what I am. Nothing was overly contrived in terms of the styles of the music, in fact quite the opposite, as I get frustrated by not knowing who I am or what it is I do musically.

So my track listing....as I started the project off with the ambition of 5 songs...some are there some aren't. But there's a lot more.

1. Calling Blue
2. Dimly
3. Dorian Grace
4. I feel Much Better
5. Out of Sunshine
6. Shell
7. While You Stare
8. Out of Sunshine part II
9. Whisper Room
10. Evil in June
11. What Makes The World Go 'Round

I will post a mediafire link for everyone tonight or in the morning.