01-01-2016: schizoid crisis

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/while-i-cant-always-convince-myself-that-my-paranoia-is-frivolous-i-can-effectively-control-how-it-affects-others
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-pieces-in-a-primitive-style

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mom
Hi J,

Happy New Year!    How have you been?    I permanently deleted my facebook account 3 months ago, so I guess this is the only way to stay in contact now.  I'm still sober, been a bit tough a few times, but didn't cave....Still plugging along.  I thought I would really enjoy having all this free time on my hands, but am realizing that I need to find a part-time job(emphasis on part-time), so will put out resume's starting next month, and hopefully will find something in the spring-time.  Didn't do much of anything for Christmas or New Year's, and you?  Did you do anything exciting!?   your sister is pregnant again, baby due in March.  your step-sister is still living with her father..they moved to Carleton Place... I don't see very much of her...Not for me not trying...Have offered to pick her up many times now...Oh well.   Nana is still healthy as a horse...lol...Will undoubtedly outlive all of us!   My father is not doing so well, but then hasn't been doing so well for a few years now...   It's been such a wonderful mild winter so far...Hope it keeps up this way!   Miss You!  Love You! 

jessica
i've been spending the last few months trying to figure out why my equipment has been malfunctioning, and finally came to an answer about two weeks ago. i figure that my headphone has a short in it, and it's picking up environmental magnetic fields that are charging them and turning them into a radio antenna, thereby distorting the output in the phones. short term solution: tinfoil can block out the radio waves. and it's really seriously been working for the last two weeks. but you can imagine that it took a long time to come to such a conclusion.

so, i've spent the last two weeks finally finishing two records of material that i wrote in the 90s, and wanted to strip the vocals out of. the only versions i had of these songs had some pretty bad teenage vocal writing that was more or less ruining them. the vocals were just really immature; on some level, i was a teen at the time, and it retains entertainment value to a teenage market. but, i felt the songs were strong enough to stand as their own for a broader market. so, it feels good to finish that.

that's the last thing i had to do to finish my first phase of writing, which was 96-99. i can now order that material in a final presentation, and move on to finishing my second period, which was 2000-2004 and is very nearly completed. i hope i can move on to starting my third period by the spring at the very latest.

the two records are here:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriclaimed
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-pieces-in-a-primitive-style

that's basically all i've been thinking about over the holidays. i got my yearly extra large pizza at midnight on christmas eve. nothing else exciting, really.

i've had a minor crises all night.

i noticed some clicks in the file, and went to rerender but it didn't null. after much freaking out, i eventually realized that there was a doubled bass part *muted* in the mix, and the mute was contributing this nice glossy blur on the bottom. i had removed the track, because it was muted anyways, and the gloss disappeared.

which means i'm actually taking advantage of the error in cubase this time, and trying to find a way to prevent it from saving correctly.

i think i've almost got it.

but that file will be replaced one more time, and i'll have an alternate mix or two up then, too.

it's clear that i need at least two singles, but less clear how to sequence them.