Maybe next Saturday.

Spoon tonight. Yeah!

Missed my first class. My second class, which normally is from 11 to 2, was cut at 11:30 so we could have personal lessons with the ACS-3 synthesizer; I was first, so I was done at 11:45. No collegium today, which is normally 2 to 3:30.

Basically all I have today is keyboards from 4 to 4:50.

So Tony Smokes is headed some good directions. We have been looking at what we've done, and what's ahead, and we have a pretty solid idea of what this summer is going to be like. Tom is picking up guitar, and we'll help him get really solid on that; I'll probably end up showing him and Kegan some bass tricks so we can all switch off when we want to. This will cause us to be several thousand times more versatile. Our songs are getting more complex, in kind of a Radiohead-y vein less most of the synthesizers. Also, a focus for the near future will be writing some songs on which Ally sings lead, which is something you all should be looking forward to--her voice is kickass. We will periodically do some low-key recordings, video or whatever, and with any luck may be releasing our first EP in late July/early August-ish, potentially along with some free downloadable tracks...?

Also am hoping to take either drum or voice lessons this summer, but finances will be an issue--particularly when none of the places I applied to work have yet called me. I think that the lovely Gibson Doublecut Les Paul Faded Yellow is a lost cause for now.

Back in the 1970s or 80s (don't remember), Bernstein did this series of lectures in which he discussed the nature of music. He had a lot of amazing points, but what stuck with me the most was his statement on the way that music makes meaning: music acts as a metaphor. The simple realization of that statement has been taking a powerful effect on my musical personality. Music as metaphor. When I'm taking a bass solo, what I am telling you as an audience member is "dig, man: it's like this." When I write a song, if the lyrics are important to me, you should be able to tell not why but how they are important to me without ever hearing them. It's such a powerful thing, and I think in the age of samples and catchy three-note figures it sometimes gets lost (though of course, not always).

Adios.