Monday, April 5, 2021

Coming Along

  I spent a good part of the weekend, a long holiday weekend, mind you, working on the "jazz machine" album, putting the finishing touches on the first couple songs.  I must say that I'm really quite pleased so far with this album and I really think that it might be one of my favorites so far.  The opening track, "As Evening Brings Tears", has quickly become one of my favorite songs that I've ever written, even in it's simplicity.  I just feel like the mood of the track is there and it's pretty much what I was hoping it would be on paper which so far in my recording experience has been a rarity.

I've recently been having an internal argument about what this "band" or brand should be called.  The issue with calling it "...with the Jazz Machine" or "...and the Jazz Machine" is that it kind of sets up a high expectation that I don't think it'll really live up to.  I'm just not sure that I confidently call anything that I've written instrumentally as "jazz" as of yet, and in truth that wasn't really the idea behind that branding anyway.  So, I've been toying around with different names and such.  Who knows what it'll actually end up being called.  One thing that I DO know is that I'm hoping to do more than one album under this brand so it's rather important that I choose wisely.

In other news, the Spirit Awards movie watching experience is winding down for 2020.  I think I'm down to only 5 movies left.  After a fairly rocky start, I must confess that this may have been one of the best years yet with nearly every film being of fairly high quality.  I think there were really only 2 films that I took issue with and both were right in the beginning of my watching.  On the flip side, though, this year doesn't have as many mind blowing/out of this world/"you've gotta see it" content.  Instead, everything has been very good to maybe great.  I guess take your pick on which you prefer.  I'll hopefully be posting my top film picks for 2020 in the next couple of weeks.

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