I've been "blogging" quite a lot lately, but it's come in the form of a personal journal. I'm not quite sure why, but I've taken a slight turn away from technology, and have started writing in my journal nearly every day. I'm not doing it on the computer, though, it's all hand-written. I never seemed to hit a good stride when it came to journaling on the computer, so after many years of trying, I've gone back to pen and paper. It's working fabulously.
We're setting Jon up with some recording software so he can sketch song ideas on his own, without having to come over to my little studio. He's got plenty of ideas in his head. We were chatting about the process and how we wanted things to move a little faster with this third collection of music. It took so long to write most of ...panic. and then the rest of the album came very fast right at the end. What we're going to try is have him do the sketches and shoot them over to me, where I can start to shape them. What I told him at a party a few weeks ago was that I'm good at shaping raw material, and he said that was a good thing because he's good at creating that raw material. Yay!
