April 25, 2016 - 12:17am ... I don't remember how Cowboys Vs Dinosaurs ended... I passed out pretty quick after posting yesterday. I just finished watching Earthquake 10.0 and have moved onto Spiders. I love "bad movies"... although they aren't horrible... but there's some self aware bad writing in them... or maybe the writers realize they've kinda screwed themselves with the story or plot so they need to just brush over a few things... and just have the audience go along with them for a minute. ... for example in the last movie, they need to "remove" 2 of the side characters from the story... so the writers decided to have them "do it" in a cave... and then one the aftershocks of the earthquake caused the ceiling to collapse on them. ... like... seriously. ... or lesson learned. ... or maybe both. ... Spiders is about giant spiders living under New York City... I love the amount of stock footage they use in big city movies like this too... the city is always bumpin' until they go back to the scenes they shot for the movie... then the crowds, bystanders, traffic, etc... all disappear. People = Money Anyway... I don't know what these spiders are planning... but I'll probably be asleep before I find out. So I woke up around 9am and was back working on demos soon after. In short... we got a lot done today... as much as we could actually. Kyle, Kevin, and I finished up around 8pm and then went out for dinner to also have a quick prepro meeting... where we discussed nothing really about the album. ... I was kinda good to not think about the album for a bit... it's been non-stop... but then again, that's why I'm here. I'm really liking the tunes we wrote/worked on this weekend... you know you're in good shape when a chorus is stuck in your head. I had a chat with them about cool vs good songs. Everyone wants their songs to be cool... but good songs have a longer shelf life... and good falls on melody and lyrics... cool rests simply on "something cool happening", but not lyric or melody related. There's a balance... Make it good, then make it cool. ... if that makes sense. Side note... I was going over some PrO tOoLs files tonight... from a large, pro studio, with a decent reputation... or at least a decent reputation for a long time. ... it's a friggin' mess. I'm just going to assume it was jr engineers or worse... interns/new staff who did it... but it's a by-product of shrinking budgets and studios pulling back on staff. You have all sorts of people thinking they can work in studios, or record in general, but they have no idea about even the basics... and when you ask them if they need a hand (or call them out on their lack of knowledge) they say they're fine... and then you're going back and forth 5 times trying to get basic things accomplished... and if you complain, then they see you as fussy or a pain in the butt. Dude... there's 146 audio files missing! ... that's not a complaint! That's a $#&%ing problem!! There isn't a ton you can do either if you're waiting on them to send files properly. #DearBands - If you're working in a large studio (or any studio for that matter), at the end of your time there, bring your own hard drive, save a copy of the session to it, and make sure your copy opens. This way if it doesn't, someone screwed up and you're still there to make sure it works. It's not rocket science. Anyway... I have no idea what's going on in this Spiders movie...I think it's bed time for me. Last week was busy but next week is going to be a test for everybody. If you're reading this, please send good vibes there are no studio gremlins that pop up and make life miserable. We need momentum tomorrow to carry us through the end of the week. I'm here til Saturday... this needs to be done by then. That's why I'm here. - Mike :-) P.S. Lunch was amazing today... went to a place called Penera Bread. It was healthy and tasty. I had a ham and swiss sandwich w/ chicken asian apple salad. The salad was exactly what I needed to combat all the fried foods last week. You might not make friends with salad, but sometimes you just wanna be alone... with salad. P.P.S. This is one huge spider. :-/
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April 24, 2016 - 1:03am I woke up at 11am today... to my face burning... the sun is strong here... I'm glad I brought sunscreen. Kevin arrived today. It was good to see him... I don't think we've actually seen each other since tracking the "Air" album a few years ago. He seems to be in good spirits... hopefully he keeps that energy since there's a boatload of work to do this week! lol. ... *tear* There's so much to do... I started making a production checklist and... there's just a lot that needs to get done. We've been doing 8 hour days (which I prefer) but we'll probably need to go 10-12hr days... and be prepared. The goal is to have the rest of the album tracking done by the end of the week... so that's my mindset on scheduling... "no backup plan". We've been working on prepro all day... and threw another song Kyle and I wrote last weekend into the mix. Kev reworked it quite a bit and it's different but cool. I was thinking the album could use another uptempo tune so that's what we were aiming for. Busy day tomorrow... need to finish these prepro demos so everyone can learn them (for Monday)... I really wanted to have them done tonight so tomorrow is a bit more laid back but way she goes. I'll get up as early as I can and get back to it. ... I'm watching Cowboys VS Dinosaurs on Crackle... I don't know why I like awful movies. Some CGI is just unacceptable... and some cowboys just aren't believable. - Mike P.S. Went to Chicken Express for lunch... pretty awesome. |
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