frozen octopus

"Nothing is rightly taught or learned without examples." ~ Columella

"Everything unknown is considered to be magnificent." ~ Tacitus

Huge full moon today.
Got pizzas.
Everything round-shaped today.

I was still pissed about a bad soundcheck yesterday so the day was pretty gray. Probably should have let it go but for some reason I couldn't.

Songwriting has begun. Feeling very floor tom-y lately.

Deleted a super long list of "music artists to check out" so that I don't feel like listening to music is a task.

Went to Book Obscura today to check out my friend's photo exhibition. The store deals in photo books.

Had a robot deliver pizza to me today.

Day off but rained. Spent the day studying frame by frame animation. Trying to level up and have animations have more sense of weight to them.

Listened to side two of our test pressing today. No errors on it so we told the factory it's good to start pressing the album.

A solid rehearsal today. Getting ready for our show on 06/02 in Koshigaya. Started in on a new song even.

Yesterday was gnarly but today wasn't. We're leaving on a weekend trip tomorrow so I think it might be the time pressure from that that gave me a boost. I notice that boost on rehearsal days as well.

Today sucked. Could get a thing working on a website and I let it get into my head. Utterly deflated.

I found 17 dance steps from the 1960s and animated them in Rough Animator. I used them in LumaFusion and made video for a song today. Looks pretty cool. I've been forcing myself to edit more on the iPad. Just making sure that I am as quick on it as I am on a laptop.

Updated the way I record my work time. I was using text files before I set up a new way using a combination of Shortcuts, DataJar, and Numbers. Seems to be working so far.

Happy New Year!

Got to hangout with someone who is just starting his journey into music. Fun to hear about the differences and samenesses about doing a starting a music project at 20 years old in 2022 vs. when I started in 1990.

Very stoked to play a show tomorrow.

So full from the weekend.

Got a microplane at IKEA yesterday. Time to shred.