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sing the following like the beach boys "wouldn't it be nice"
SNARE HIT!
wouldn't it be nice if i could stay up
and see the sun all the time
so that i can work and play
till my heart feels all contempt
oh, i was going to think of more stuff, but fuck it, i better sleep.
books i want to read, people i like to talk to, songs that need to be mixed, a tour i have to do, lots of things to do. but i only have one me and limited energy.
says to myself "the tour will train and make you a fit, energetic, hunky man, my friend"
it's either that or excess eating. nah, i won't be snorting shite.
i am about to lose my marbles with this home mixing thing. i think this is the last time i will ever accept a project that has no budget allowance for me to do my thang properly. this is soooooo self detrimental. the cleaning lady is sleeping the corridoor outside but she keeps dropping her broom on to the concrete. it makes a sharp sound that really hurts my already overused and sensitive ears. she's sweeping the ground or something but i am hearing it too well................. oh oh.
but for the sake of reading it.
interesting............
http://www.freemyspace.com/
only makes me stronger and wiser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese
Scorsese has expressed plans to make his next film-project Silence, the story of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in feudal Japan. Based on the novel by Japanese author Shusaku Endo it is projected for a 2008 release. Early in 2006 Scorcese spoke of directing the movie, and a recent interview with his long-time editor Thelma Schoonmaker in Time Out confirmed that this is his next film project. She is quoted saying "It's something very close to Scorsese's heart – he's wanted to make it for many years but he's never really had the time to write the script and get it funded. But we're all hoping that this time it's going to happen, and it looks like we're going to shoot it in New Zealand as well." Silence is a novel by Shusaku Endo, about two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, who travel to seventeenth century Imperial Japan (which has isolated itself from all foreign contact) to see how the evangelical mission is going. There they witness the persecution of the Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government who wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Eventually they separate and Rodrigues travels the country-side, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer. Javier Bardem is set to star. [19]
one thing i may add, is that shusaku endo is christian.
another sleepless zombie of a night-morning.
my sleeping pattern in the past week has drifted from los angeles time, tokyo time to london time. i would be a healthy person in these places, sleep at midnight, wake at 7am , etc. problem is, i have been in tokyo for over the past year now.
i am irritated with myself and the lack of execution and indecision. i wish i could come up with my own schtick that would help the world in some scale, and in return, allow me and those that i care for to prosper.
i am stuck with myself, i don't dislike myself, but i do question myself and intent. a lot of my lifer has been wandering about yes and no, and the grey zone in between.
i learnt japanese the "wrong" way
i was "not supposed to be" left handed
i was "not supposed" to forget japanese
i was "not supposed" to mumble calculations in english
and so on.......
i wonder, what would of have happened if these "not supposed to" things were allowed. would i of have been some genius? would my life of have been less fucked up? maybe so, maybe not. does it matter? it matters slightly to one single heart, mine. but otherwise, not.
i would like the "world" to know that i do care and that i better get a move on. i would like some peace in my life now, a little less solitude and a little more affection.
what the fuck am i on about..............fuck 9am..............................let me see, no meetings today.
tomorrow full day. today mix. let me see. wake up 15:00 mix till 23:00 sleep midnight, wake up 7am.......
they had a video for this. set in some botanical garden or a set shoot. lots of tropical trees kind of thing.
dear christ/buddha/allah/sophia loren
i confess.
i am a bleedin' mod.
always was, always will. rule ok.
this song always makes me feel 16 again. i need to find a woman that wouid feel the same and forgive my fuckups. i do try.
more past reflections. this was the last number one song before i moved back to tokyo in 27th march, 1982. now, with a show like this, this made me all the more stay in england. i remember actually saying to my parents that i want to be british. in a way, i probably should of been, with the way i think of things now.
jam tarts, cor.
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php?t=87678
townhouse studios in london are apparently closing down. it's a downright shame, really. i LOVE recording studios, probably more so than i love music venues. why? i dunno, more gear, more knobs! plus, the beauty of recording is that it is ALL A LIE. there is nothing real encapsulated inside a rotating disc, be it wax cylinder, vinyl, cd or hard drive. same as photos. recordings offer a deformed perspective of what was once alive and real. recordings capture air, photographs capture light.
i have been lucky enough to witness most of the famous recording studios in london and new york. i have seen a full orchestra perform before my very own eyes at abbey road. i have rooms where many known records were made.
i think a lot of people underestimate the sound of a room. if you go to abbey road for example and walk about inside studio 1 (the orchestra room) or 2 (aka the beatles room), you feel familiar. the reason is simple, because all the records you heard that came from the studios contain sounds of musicians playing in that room. every wondered why your bedroom recordings sound bad? room sound can be a cause. ever wondered why the vibe of a room isn't doing it for you? because it sounds bad. rooms all have their own signature sounds.
ok, capitalism accelerates. many record company people don't even know how records are made anymore, let alone the spec of their product. i am sounding like an old fart, but i don't care.
you want quality music? depending on the project, you need quality surroundings to an extent. you can't make a led zeppelin album or whatever in your bloody bedroom with protools. it just isn't that easy. ok, you can make a led zepplin likeness album in your bedroom with protools, just stick on preset reverb 489 "leevee breaks". but that's like having sex with an inflated doll. from my perspective, it just ain't the same thing, at all. where's the imagination in that? no perspiration, and most of all, you don't have anyone shouting lovable, obscene messages such as "f**k off and get on with it, yer knob tiwddler!". that's what i love about studios that work, they provide the setting for a creative vibe and the rest is all about documenting human interaction under all those lights. it is for me, the ultimate boy's club hideaway.
i mean, i talk about this with friends at times. there is not a single room in tokyo anymore where i would go "hmm, i want to record drums in this room", not a single one, cos they all closed down, or changed their room too far to "be with the times". actually, there is one room but it's not commercially available. but that's it. if i keep making records in that room, they're all going to feel the same. japanese productions have far too many people in the room that actually take away a lot from creativitiy, but that is a different issue.
big recording studios have a vibe, like hanging out backstage at a festival or something. there is the vibe of friendly competition in the air. the canteen ladies and all that tea in british studios. i remember the canteen lady at abbey road giving me a hard time because of my accent and taking the piss on me about "bet you don't know how to make tea, luv". conclusion was, i lost.
that vibe of a big, respected studio facility, all those eyes looking at you. it's like wearing a tie to go to work, you shift yourself into the mindset of "work". ok, this vibe is not for everybody, i know, but for those that do get off on that buzz, there is nothing else like it.
the townhouse had a local indian restraunt that was nice.
steven wozniak and some other people should start buying up known recording studios and preserve them. because when you take those walls down, it's gone. it will never, ever come back.
when eric clapton's old electric guitar sells for a million dollars, i don't see why not people value the rooms that made the music more. they were, in some ways, effective as much as the instruments that made the music.