Cat and Mouse

it-is-snowing. we had a snow day today, but it didn't start snowing until after school would have ended. which was sweet. i slept in and just kind of lazed around today.

i'm nearly done with this song that i've been working on for almost a week now, but i haven't worked on it today since my mom's been home and she doesn't like when i make loud noises. like, play music. it's ok though, because all i have left to do is the drums and a little more tinkering with the tracks I already have to make it sound betta.

I really need a compression mic. my utilization of dynamic mics during recording is affecting the sound quality of these songs and it's really getting to the point where i'm getting irritated. maybe i'll get another mic instead of that digital piano i've been aching to get for such a long time now... i hate decisions. in any case, i need a job. and hopefully, my mom will be able to hook me up with one at the hospital she works at. seriously, doing janitorial work at a hospital over the summer and making $8 an hour is better than not making any money at all at this point. I just need money for music.
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IN THE MEANTIME, I've been starting work on this new song, heavily inspired by the fact that i've been listening to a fair amount of Joanna Newsom as of late. All I have so far is the lyrical concept and about 3/4 of the music for it.

I know that it's gonna be about a mouse and his family who live in a horse stable. But a cat starts coming around and the mouse, whose name is Jefferson, decides that his family should pack up and leave. so they head for the house, which is about a two days walk for them. and on the way, his children, Amelia and Nathaniel, fall into a snakehole and are eaten up. Jefferson and his wife finally arrive at the house and set up a new home in a hole in the wall. But after a couple of days, the owners of the house find out that there are mice in the house and they set up a bunch of traps. Jefferson's wife, Adeline, gets caught in one of the traps after looking for food. Jefferson's unaware of his wife's death, sitting in their house, when an exterminator gases the hole. Jefferson runs out of the hole and narrowly escapes being captured by the exterminator. he sees an immediate exit through a window above the kitchen sink. He scurries his way up towards the window, but he falls in the sink that's filled with water, and, not being able to swim, he drowns. While underwater, he looks up at the window and sees the sun setting.



I guess this story is just a conglomeration of like lighthearted children's literature about animals (A Cricket in Times Square, Redwall) and serious literature in which animals are used to symbolize people (Maus, Animal Farm). I'm excited to put all of that into lyrical form, it should be quite the rewarding challenge. It's a lot, so it's probably gonna be a long song. A lot of the songs I've been doing lately have been long.
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Now for song of the day so I can go eat dinner. i haven't made any new musical discoveries today, so here's a song from a guy i played with at one of the only shows i've ever played, back in December '08. I really like this song because it's all at once smooth and aggressive. It's a song that you can either bob your head along to or cry profusely at. Andrew Mello's Presently Deceiving the Past off his album "What I Say Isn't What I Mean".

Off for a Tuesday drive in the snow.
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