Heading Back into School

So, here comes grad school again. I just wrapped up what UH calls the "Turbo Project", which essentially means summer stock on crack. Arrive off book, block the show with 2 different casts in 7 days and perform it. Booyah. It sort of felt like home, but more traumatic. We performed Stoppard's "Arcadia" which is one of my favorite plays and Septimus is right up there on the list of all time sweetest roles I've wanted to play. This blog entry makes me sound like an idiot- really though I'm terribly rushed here and don't feel like feigning profound insights at the moment- mostly I'm just keeping my head above water. So, one play done in 7 days, followed by 5 monologues and a song, throw in a juggling routine and IPA transliterations due this week, oh and did I mention that we're doing "Wild Oats" and I have a principal where I'm supposed to look like a "greek god"? Yeah, I pretty much pissed myself at the read through today. It's articulate statements like that which make me sort of relieved that no one reads this... usually. Heading for bed.

Scratch track

This is what we did yesterday. Working on a new song company we're going to call Fiasco Songwriting. Mmmmm .
ElectricityTEST by dylanpaul

onE SONG, one ...day?

Ok, drums are go. bass is go. backing vocals, mostly go. REASON tracks are go. First verse, eat it. Now some wailing guitar. yes, please.

1 song, 1 day, p2

AHHHHHH stuck on lyrics. Verse one is pretty solid. Chorus down. Need v2 and a bridge- so... there's that. We have REASON tracks imported, working on drums, then bass, then vocals. Still... I'd like to have the lyrics to guide all of that- I mean, maybe no one else listens to them, but I do. Lunch at Teller's in Lawrence, KS? Yes.

One Day. One Song. Go.

So I'm working on a new song called "Electricity". Yeah... we'll see about the title, but so far we're having a lot of fun. We started around 11AM this morning. Before today, Robin Smith and I sat down and tweaked out most of the basic song structure- it's nothing that's going to shock you, but I think we'll be playing a lot with electronic layering and organic instruments as well as very natural and highly processed vocal layers.

"A thousand glowing LEDs are lighting up inside of me..." something like that. More updates to come.

Also, I'm not pretending that someone is actually reading this, but it looked cool on the social network and could result in a billion dollars.

Speaking is an act of survival- but so is listening.