Finally...

I finally had a productive weekend!  Yes, it's only taken me like 3 months to have one, I know...  I've been hard at work all weekend on my remaining tasks for the new edits on "(He Was) Some Kind of a Man", so that I can finally get the CD's printed, and then also worked on a radio edit from the same album ("I Miss You Most at Nighttime") since I may make an attempt at a video.  The radio edit was interesting since I've never done something like this before but I think it worked out okay.  I needed to cut about 3 minutes of material and basically chose at random.

I also finally got back to looking at "Optimism" from the incredibly overdue "Mirror Land" EP.  It's this song that's been really holding me up and it involved some deep diving into how to edit drums.  I learned a ton this weekend, more than I can say here, and it's been quite eye opening.  I had no idea editing real drums was so involved and truthfully I've had no experience up until now since I've basically used drum machines and programming my whole life.  I feel slightly enlightened and partially overwhelmed.  I can't say "Optimism" is done yet but I think I made great strides this weekend on it.  I would love to be able to wrap the "Mirror Land" mixes up in the next 30 days so fingers crossed.

I also started tinkering with the beyond overdue Defrost Nixon album.  This one is going to be interesting, and after doing a bit of research I realized it's most likely going to take some additional software.  I more or less figure that if I can get that album mixed and released successfully sometime this year I'll be looking fairly promising for future mixing.  It'll definitely be a learning experience, if nothing else.

In other news, I've taken in quite a few films over the past couple of weeks as well including some of the last on my list for 2021 (and ironically some of the best) including "Licorice Pizza", "The Worst Person in the World", and also "Nightmare Alley" which was surprisingly wonderful.  In music, Marillion's latest "An Hour Before It's Dark" has been my main play with a few jazz/instrumental albums on the side, including some of Jan Garbarek's work which I have to say I really quite like.

I've done a bit of toying with the new baritone acoustic but not a ton.  I do feel a solo acoustic album might possibly be brewing in my head, however.  I know...just what I need...more added to my list.  I must be out of my mind but I guess that goes without saying (sigh).