The Fish Swims...Sort of

My annual Thanksgiving week off started quite well but as usual ran astray.  Mixing the "...Fish" album was going very well during the beginning of the week, and one track is officially done with probably 2-3 only an iteration or two behind.  There are definitely some problem tracks, not to mention some that were put aside purposefully due to a larger amount of necessary reworking, but mixing for the most part remained positive.

I usually take actual holidays off, in this case Thanksgiving day, as well as the day after Thanksgiving, just to kind of have some relaxation time.  And then, I received awful news from a friend that you basically never ever want to hear, and I have yet to really get my creative or productive self in motion again.  I won't go into details because I don't believe these things belong online, of course.  Regardless, it was hard to simply turn on the gear and start plugging away as if nothing had happened.

I know I'm going to kick myself next week for not pushing through and being productive but, well, sometimes you just crash, for lack of a better term.  Today is Sunday and my last day off before restarting work tomorrow and so I'm faced with the dilemma of trying to restart things, even though they're going to stop later tonight regardless, or simply blowing off today as well.  I'm contemplating a bit of both; maybe looking at a couple of mixes but also venturing out to the La Paloma Theatre at 2pm for a showing of "Stop Making Sense".  Would you believe that I've never seen this film?  Well, I was never really a huge fan of the Talking Heads so that's why I wouldn't have watched the movie in my younger days but have developed an interest in them over the years.  I guess we'll see if I do in fact venture out.

I guess the good news is that I also take 2 weeks off over Christmas so I have more time ahead of me for music.  Still, I was hoping to have "...Fish" almost wrapped up by then so that I could instead focus on Defrost Nixon.  Sigh.  This has pretty much been the way of 2023.

I was also dabbling with the idea of purchasing another Lowden acoustic, two of which are more or less on Reverb.com right now at "reasonable" prices (I say that term very loosely because Lowden's are super pricey in general).  I ended up talking myself out of it, at least for the moment.  Money is tight, mainly wrapped up in endless housing projects that are on the horizon, and so the idea of shelling out quite a few dollars for a guitar that I don't need seems not the wisest choice.

That's the news for now on the music front.  I hope everyone had a pleasant holiday weekend.