« NaSoAlMo update | Main | Shearwater in Wilmington, NC »

NaSoAlMo update 2

I've got five songs! Totalling 14:41! It's palandromic! It's almost halfway done!

I don't know how everyone else is approaching this, but I'm hoping that I can get some stuff out of this that I will like, and will have really worked on. I have been trying to flesh out the songs as well as I can--it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to do an album in a month just by singing into a single mic with a guitar, but not many songs I've done with solo guitar sound good to me. I remember a quote someone said about Sylvia Plath: that she always wanted to fashion something out of a poem she worked on, and if it didn't quite work out as a piece of furniture, a chair or a table, she could at least make a toy. I have been thinking about that often as I try to turn my ideas into songs.

Bonus link: Lou Barlow loves cats. (hey, so do I!)

Posted by lld at November 11, 2004 10:45 PM

Comments

robot mark says:

I'm about half-way through my album as well. I'm also doing one mic with guitar stuff, but I'm using Audacity, so I can double track vocals and overdub guitar parts. It still sounds weak and childish though.

Are you going to be posting some of the music when it's finished? I'd love to hear it.

mark
music.for-robots.

November 14, 2004 04:00 PM

lalitree says:

Yeah, my stuff sounds pretty weak and childish to me too. To some degree I think that's just part of getting comfortable with hear yourself sing something you wrote (unless you're an egomaniac, which I really wish I was right now, it'd help a lot).

I do intend to post some stuff, ideally the whole thing, but that'll be only if I decide it won't make me die of embarrassment.

November 14, 2004 06:30 PM

melissa says:

woah, lou is so off the mark about dogs not wanting to live with people that i actually wrote him! dogs tied up outside _are_ sad. it's not their choice to be untrained and neglected. let's hope that he abandons all these false impressions of his, because cats and dogs want to be at home.

November 29, 2004 06:04 PM