Of course, I take pretty much every Memorial Day and Labor Day week off for recording each and every year. I'm now only one week away from starting supposed recording and, well, I've barely picked up a guitar all summer. Yikes.
To add to the drama, the US Open starts tomorrow and I'm supposed to have yet another Mohs surgery this coming Wednesday. Talk about distractions. I'm actually thinking I'm going to postpone the Mohs since it's simply way too distracting, plus it'll almost completely knock out recording next week since the spot they were going to work on is literally in the path where my headphones would sit. No headphones pretty much means no recording.
Now that it's slowly approaching September, otherwise known as Halloween time in my world, this means that the year is quickly coming to a close. I've had to have my usual "come to Jesus" session with myself, realizing how little time is left and talking about what I can realistically get done in that amount of time. The end result isn't too terribly positive.
Therefore, whereas I initially thought I'd be working on the new Jazz Machine album next week, it's looking like I'll instead be tackling some of the redo work I have on the Defrost Nixon album, some of which are quite a bit mind boggling, and then also trying to do more mixing. I mean, I simply have to get these 2 damn EP's out this year. If I don't, well, I might simply implode...or give up in general.
Look for more entries starting later this week. I'm also heading out to MN a week from Thursday so that'll cut into recording week as well. The trip is centered around going to the John Zorn Birthday fest once again up there, an event that I really loved the two times I went while living there. It's also the first time I'll be visiting since leaving.
Until next week... I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can get motivated.