I’m not really sure what I should be writing about today. I woke up late on account of it still being my winter break from school. I also stayed up super late in order to finish editing and bouncing my playthrough video. I think this one is going to be my finest piece of work yet! Just kidding. It’s just another video of me flaunting the instruments I know how to play. I put a bunch of work into editing it so that I look cool. That’s not why I do the videos though. I do the videos because I AM cool! Like super cool. Like frozen cool. Whatever.
Let’s see….I’ve got a meeting today with an artist who is going to work on the new Octopus Tree art. The whole band will be on the Zoom meeting. I will not be wearing pants. It’s a Zoom meeting, and I don’t have to wear pants. Right? Right.
The mixing for the new OT single is going pretty well. I try to talk to Eryn about it…and I don’t mean to offend her at all, because I love her, and she is wonderful and the sweetest person I know, but she doesn’t hear the differences in the mix when I show her an A-B comparison. It’s rather funny to me. I’ll work for a few hours on EQ-ing and tweaking compression levels and pan pots and yada yada, and then I’ll show her the results of my work and she’s like, “I don’t really hear a difference, but it sounds really nice! Good work honey!” Ah, the joys of loving a non-musician. She does amazing karaoke, and knows the words to every 80’s top 40 hit. I have to give her credit there. She also left me a smoothie this morning as she does on the regular. Thanks Eryn! ‘Twas delicious!
I’ve got a couple shows going on next week that I’m rather stoked about. OT is playing on the 2oth at Hi-Dive with some dope bands, and The Teds are gonna be headlining a show on the 21st at Enigma Bazaar on my side of town. The line up of bands is eclectic. I really do love playing shows. I want to say I like it better than recording, but don’t quote me on that. There’s times when I show up to a venue and just really want to go back home to record something that I’ve had stuck in my head all day. At the same time, there’s times where I need to push record and would rather be playing an instrument in front of strangers in a small town far from home. IDK. Music life is weird like that.
The Teddinators have a podcast coming out soon. It’s also for people who like reading and/or listening to nonsense. We talk about books and Jesus and Hercules and…well…you know. Actually…. I might have been a little drunk for the podcast recording, so it will be just as new to me as it is to any listener. Hopefully I didn’t say anything that will get me cancelled. But you can’t get cancelled if your show was never on right? Right?!?
Thanks for reading,
Joe
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