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The River
February 12, 2012
I watched the pilot of "The River." TV seems to be trending toward more scary/creepy TV series that push the envelope. Maybe this one doesn't push the envelope too much, but it's scarier than any TV series I've ever seen. I suspect "American Horror Story" might be scarier given that it's set in a house rather than an Amazon jungle that I'll never visit.
The thing about scary shows with supernatural events is they can make the rules up as they go. In "The River," it feels like a stretch when the characters figure out the rules under pressure and quickly enough to dig themselves out of a deadly situation.
I'll keep watching.
Incidentally, every time I think about this show, that line from Rush's "Tom Sawyer" pops into my head: The river (ba dum ba duuuum, ba doo be doo be, ba dum ba duuuum....).
Reasons not to immediately toss boxes or put laundry away
NaSoAlMo 2011, Day 15
November 15, 2011
This is the halfway point of NaSoAlMo. I'm ahead of the game, but I don't have near as much free time in the second half of the month.
Last night, I was suffering from a bad (or maybe sad) attitude. Tonight, I felt much better. I had a better day at work. I felt better physically. And I left work an hour early so I had more time to do music.
I tackled the mix of NaSoAlMo 01: Count the Sunrises. I felt like there was something missing in the chorus so I added a simple cymbal and high hat groove. I find this part of the process to be very tedious and frustrating. I can work for an hour on the mix and think it's perfect, then export it and put it through the mastering process. Mastering is the final polish and I don't claim to understand it... I just have some buttons to push and sliders to slide until it sounds good. It usually makes the song louder. The mastering part can emphasize things in the mix I didn't intend to emphasize. So then I have to go back to the mix and make changes.
The drum software I have takes minutes to load. So even if I have one tiny thing I want to do (like bring the vocal down a decibal), I still have to wait minutes for the drums to load before I can export it to do the mastering. Frustrating.
THEN... after I master again, I might decide it sounds good. But then when I listen in the car, something else sounds wrong, so it's back to the drawing board. I've learned that if I hear something wrong when I listen on my main computer, though, to just leave it. Even though other people's music sounds good on my computer, my music always sounds like crap. shrug
As I write this, I've got a mastered version that I like, but I haven't listened in the car yet. I will put it in my iPhone and listen in the car tomorrow.
Something I Started Watching Today
Highlander - I'm 45 minutes in, and I can't count the number of times I've said, "Huh?" I was expecting medieval style fantasy, but it started with a Queen song and a pro wrestling match and then a sword duel in a parking garage where the cars practically came to life and then started falling apart. I have no idea what's going on. I think I should have watched it back in the 80's when it wouldn't have felt so dated.
