TonightsLastSong

Et voilà... je pars.  Je vais au Canada pour voir une amie, qui est très spéciale à moi.  I'm headed first to Toronto to see some things with her, and then we're taking a train to Ottawa for to spend a few days with her and the family.  I couldn't fit my guitar in my bag, so I'll just have to toy with theirs while I'm in town   I'm super excited!  Sadly, I'll be missing Thanksgiving with my own family, as I'm leaving tonight, the day right before the big holiday.  On the flip side, Lisa and the family are hosting me for a belated Thanksgiving meal on Sunday.  Canadian Thanksgiving was back in October, so they're making a special effort to accomodate for me in their plans.  They used to live in Texas, so they know how these american holidays go

Since I'll be a little more than busy up in Canada, I won't really be back here to check out BandAMP stuffs until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.

Later

Listening to a funny song by Omar Goodness, right now, called "Canadian Girls" :P  It holds a dear little place in my heart, having come back from Canada recently, and even more so because I'm currently planning trips back to Ontario to spend some quality time with a girl I've been interested in up there.  She's great-- we're planning on meeting up for a long-term "visit" for this coming summer... Don't worry, all.  I won't be quiting my music or ditching BandAMP, hahaha...

Anyway, as interesting as my private life is, I'm sure you, dear reader, aren't here to find out about that sort of stuff (I hope). 


uuuppps... I gotta help my siblings eat dinner :P  My mother's in the hospital right now, so I'm holding down the fort :P  Nothing to worry about-- she's coming home soon!

I suppose I'll finish this entry later 

So, after having left the country for 2 years, I'm slowly settling back into my life.  Funny how you can root yourself up like that, and then return and feel so detached from where you once called "home."  I feel like I have no real "home" despite the house that I stay in each night.

We tell ourselves when we're young that Friends are Forever, while we try to escape our families, thinking that one day we'll never have to deal with them again.  It seems to me that it's the other way around.... The family is what lasts forever, and the friends change as frequently as scrambled eggs need to be stirred in a frying pan.  I've come home, and 95% of my aquaintances are moved away or starting new lives for themselves elsewhere.  I may be moving someplace else once summer of 08 rolls around.  I've gained the liking of a friend of mine from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and we're planning on trying to close up this distance issue that looms its ugly head, threatening to destroy what we hold so dear     Who knows where I'll end up.

Has it every crossed your mind how we as humans tend to look for bold, new ways to be different?  It's interesting to me that we all think that we're something so special, when everbody else is trying to do the same thing as me (though they admittedly go about it differently).  It's like... if Traditional was how the world turned on its axis just last week, then today we're plagued with a bunch of Columbuses (Columbi?   ) that think they're going to revolutionize the joint.  But... if we're all out there trying to revolutionize, then nobody's back in the Traditional part, holding the fort down, you see?  If we're all out doing something new, then the real frontier is back where we came from, where nobody bothers walking the forgotten path.  We call Traditional the Beaten Path, but really... isn't revolutionizing things the Beaten Path today?  That would make the real revolutionizing take place in the Traditional side of things, because nobody goes there anymore.

The way I see it though, there's nothing wrong with taking some new found skills from time spent Revolutionizing and trying to combine them with Traditional.  It keeps things spicy; it keeps things interesting.

How was that for a blog?  I find it hard to stay on just one topic   Forgive me.

*does a little japanese bow*

Returned to the USA after a 2 year sojourn in Canada, I've posted a new recording of my old song "Acutally, 'Sorry' Wasn't the First Thing that Came to Mind."  Check it out, yo.

Later, friends.
XO, TLS

As promised by rule number 7 (post number 12) of the thread The Church of Bandamp... the 100th poster of the said thread would be glorified in ritual sing-song around a camp fire.

if ever there is a bandamp get-together around a campfire, this song must be sung in honor of dodosito.  The tune is put/crammed to the tune of the japanese folk song "Sakura."

dodosito, dodosito
One hundredth poster here
These stars will witness ever more,
Smiling faces, marsh-a-mallows
Yet Mud reigns supreme
Now, now
Let's not forget them both

XO, TLS

People:  I'm leaving.  Kentucky.  Not the Amp

I'm moving right now, and I won't really back in commission until next Wednesday or Thursday.  My compy's in the mail, and I didn't have an arm or a leg to spare for sending it any faster than standard ground mail.  I'll be out to my new home late this weekend, on the western side of the states.

But.. the bad news is that my guitar isn't going to make the trip with me.. Not because of space or anything easily figured out like that, but because it's on its last leg, I'm afraid.  He's a goner.  In terms of playing around with it, you can work with it, but it's lost its ability to be recordable..  Twas a sad night last night when I finally came to the conclusion that it would have to happen this way.

So, my guitar music will get put on hold.  However, I'll probably finally take the time to learn that blasted FL studio.  I know I've ranted about it, but it'll be my only "instrument" for a while.  I've got some ideas, but my ability to pilot that confounded program (and its interface) is still very limited.  Only by toughing it out will I ever learn and become proficient with it!

Just thought I'd give a random update for anybody who cares :P 

It's not like anybody reads many blogs around here, haha..  I do from time to time, but lets face it, it's not a major feature of the amp.  Usable, for sure, but not a major feature.

Au revoir, les gars.
Tim

OH GOSH BANDAMP you'll be okay!  just pull through.  nobody's been posting recently

I've got my finals that are trying to eat me, but I'll be back within a few weeks.  I've got to move away, receive my stuff that i'm shipping to myself, yada yada.  I'll be back soon!!

Later, y'all. 

hey, I'm sure there are a few places that do this on the site, but maybe it's the same script that is responsible for all such occurances:

when i was writing a PM a while ago, I got waaay distracted and left it idle for a long time.  Naturally, my login expired and I forgot, so I pushed the send button anyway.  The result on such cases is a friggin mile-long page of generated red exclamation points with sporatic intelligent messages littering the page about the following:

Invalid Last Name
Must include a Message
MP3 was not completely uploaded
MP3 was not completely uploaded

the above which are scattered amongst various lines, and gets repeated as a block 12 times. (no seriously, 12)

Can't it just show a single red exlamation point and say that "Your session has expired.  Click here to log in again" blah blah?   That would SOOO be infinitely better.  It's really not hard for the site to detect an expired session BEFORE it tries to parse the PM text box line by line, giving a red exlamation point for every word it tries to process.

Thanks
Tim

So, i haven't really figured out what makes this happen yet........

Usually at 12:30AM ish... (mmm, I'm Eastern Standard Time.. that's also the time the bandamp pages tell me at the footer) usually at about that time, all of the forums' stars light up, as if they're marked "unread".  I'm not really sure what's making this happen.  I literally don't do anything to make it happen.  I just refreshed my page about 30 minutes after i had loaded it, and when it refreshed, all of the stars on the all the forums were lit up.

Once I enter a particular forum, sometimes all of the threads are lit up, unread, but sometimes it's just 2, or sometimes 5.  I can't find a pattern in it.  Sometimes the lit up threads are the ones from this week (which have a day of the week as their timestamp, rather than a full date), yet at other times, it happens to others that are within the month.  I think there's a connection to the month at least, but it might be more narrow... 2 weeks maybe?  nah... that doesn't fit.  a week and a half?  i can't figure out why that would be the magic number though.

Usually this only happens once a week to me.  I haven't been keeping track of which day of the week it's been in the past, but it's very possible that 12:30AM, Saturday into Sunday, is when it happens.

I've got a sense of humour, right?  Well, just so you know, the mp3 i've uploaded is actually an outtake, and not the real song.  (it's close, but it's not quite the real thing.)  You'll know the screw up when you hear it.  The lead vocal cuts out after the messup.

Here's the real version, if you're interested:  http://tonightslastsong.000webhost.info/mp3s/02youfool.mp3  (personally, i like the outtake one better.)  (or, try out The Chipmunk Chronicles version found here:  http://tonightslastsong.000webhost.info/mp3s/TCC/01youfool.mp3 )

I've been having the hardest time recording the vocals for this new version of the track, most probably because i'm downright sick of the song.  I'm so tired of it.  I've listened to it hundreds of times, revising it and picking it to pieces.  My fingers are blistered.  My chest hurts.  I think I'm getting sick.  Boo hoo, I know.  But really.  This is the 3rd full go against the vocal brick wall (for this particular recording of music).  The vocals weren't excited enough for the last long chorus, and it sounded like I was retarded, so kept redoing them.  They're better now, but i'm still not happy with it as a whole.  I think I got a little too pop'y and bouncy with some of the parts... an overcorrection for my droning sound that I've fixed.  So sue me.

K, so the melody has changed a little.  The reason for the outtake is because i accidentally used the wrong note, one from the old melody, and then realized it half a line later.  Then it got dramatic. 

I'm aware of probably 98% of all the faults any of you are going to point out, but that's okay.  I'm done with this!  But of course, feel free to say anything about the mix that comes to mind.

A scpecial thanks to Avi, for simply pasting a link to a page on musiciansfriend.com, which made me finally just get myself in gear and buy a cheap mic to improve the quality of my recordings.  Thanks man

And You've Gone and Told Love's Secret (You Fool) eff c version - the outake

verse 1
I want you to come around
I would never ask you anything to hurt you
Open up, love
You've got my heart, there
You've got everything
everything meaningful's wagered in your reckless game
Open up
It's love who's calling

knock at door, Boy responds with, "Who is it?"

chorus
(Mmmm) The stage is a dance in Citadel
And you, you gotta make it hard or sit it out
Everyone is clinging to you,
and I hate it
and you hate it
I would never tell you anything to hurt you

knock at door again, boy shouts, "I'm busy right now!"

bridge
Boy says,
"One, two, three, four,
One, two, three, four,
*sigh*
She's over there again...
Maybe next time...
I guess I'll just sit this one out, too
I dunno... Just sing to myself."

Da da da da da da dla da da
Da da da da da da mm dla da da

Oh, I'm missing you
I want you here
oh, no, maybe...
Oh, I'm doubt us again

verse 2
If I held you 'til stars fell down
from their places in the sky
Would you tell all?
All about everything?
I've got this feeling
I'm dependent, overly.
And if I touch down now,
I'm not pulling back up.
I'm sure of this
Is love killing time?

chorus
(Mmmm) The stage is a dance in Citadel
And you, you gotta make it hard or sit it out
Everyone is clinging to you,
and I hate it
and you hate you       deep breath
I would never tell you anything to hurt you

Boy clears throat... exhales...
and walks away.

Verses 1 & 2 revisited
I want you to come around
I would never ask you anything to hurt you
Open up, Love
You've got my heart, there
You've got everything.
Everything meaningful (is wagered in your reckless game.)
If I held you until the stars fell down,
from their places in the sky,
at this point, the song comes to a screeching halt, with the words of realization:  "...wait a minute. WAIT!!"
would you tell all,
all about everything?
I've got this little feeling: I'm dependent, overly.
Your love, does it love me?
Your love, does it love me?