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[Yup, I just referenced a Porcupine Tree lyric. I'm a dork.]
So all the music blogs and the alternative radio stations have been talking about how it's been 20 years since Radiohead's The Bends came out. I was still living in Allston at the time, working at the Sony Theater and hearing "High & Dry" on WFNX and WBCN on a daily basis. I didn't get the album right away due to my perpetual lack of any funds, but by September I finally ordered the cd through my Columbia House membership. I immediately fell in love with it--I did like Pablo Honey but felt that one was a bit disjointed, whereas The Bends was solid from start to finish. I pinched a blank tape from my then job at the radio station and dubbed it so I could listen to it on the go. It was on heavy rotation when I started writing down in the Belfry, and it was also a go-to album when Kris and I used to go on our weekend roadtrips. She made fun of the fact that I could hit Thom Yorke's notes, although with absolutely none of the musicality. [For those wondering, I can nail notes with reasonable accuracy, but my tone is similar to Peter Tork's--kind of bland and flat.] If you don't yet own The Bends, I'm sure you can find it relatively cheaply in used bins by now. It's well worth picking up.
So what else is going on? Day Job continues apace...there's been a bit of an internal shake-up and some people on my team are moving to a more client-facing new team (my team, in theory, would become more internal-facing). No one lost a job, but not everyone's happy with the news. I'm ambivalent, and my horses in this race would seem to be getting a bit of a reprieve--I'll be the only person focusing on two inboxes, but it also means I'll be relieved of other unrelated issues that would come up--but I'm waiting to see how it all unfolds in the next few weeks before I say anything.
In creative news: HOKEY SMOKES I'M WRITING LONGHAND! After hemming and hawing and delaying and goofing off, I made good on my plan to do so. It's a new story in the Mendaihu Universe, and I'm not entirely sure where it's going to go, but I have high hopes. I won't reveal too much yet, at least not until I get more situated here.
Also: the Daily 750 is working out as well with the semi-serious 'Lidwells Story' project. I say 'semi-serious' because I'm writing this completely for the fun of it. It's written like a fictional music biography in interview form, though there are moments outside of the interviews that are being used as a bit of framework. As for whether I'll release it or submit it somewhere, I'm not thinking about that at the moment. I just want to write the thing for the fun.
So what, in fact am I really working on, projectwise? Everything, it seems. And I'm okay with that. :)
So all the music blogs and the alternative radio stations have been talking about how it's been 20 years since Radiohead's The Bends came out. I was still living in Allston at the time, working at the Sony Theater and hearing "High & Dry" on WFNX and WBCN on a daily basis. I didn't get the album right away due to my perpetual lack of any funds, but by September I finally ordered the cd through my Columbia House membership. I immediately fell in love with it--I did like Pablo Honey but felt that one was a bit disjointed, whereas The Bends was solid from start to finish. I pinched a blank tape from my then job at the radio station and dubbed it so I could listen to it on the go. It was on heavy rotation when I started writing down in the Belfry, and it was also a go-to album when Kris and I used to go on our weekend roadtrips. She made fun of the fact that I could hit Thom Yorke's notes, although with absolutely none of the musicality. [For those wondering, I can nail notes with reasonable accuracy, but my tone is similar to Peter Tork's--kind of bland and flat.] If you don't yet own The Bends, I'm sure you can find it relatively cheaply in used bins by now. It's well worth picking up.
So what else is going on? Day Job continues apace...there's been a bit of an internal shake-up and some people on my team are moving to a more client-facing new team (my team, in theory, would become more internal-facing). No one lost a job, but not everyone's happy with the news. I'm ambivalent, and my horses in this race would seem to be getting a bit of a reprieve--I'll be the only person focusing on two inboxes, but it also means I'll be relieved of other unrelated issues that would come up--but I'm waiting to see how it all unfolds in the next few weeks before I say anything.
In creative news: HOKEY SMOKES I'M WRITING LONGHAND! After hemming and hawing and delaying and goofing off, I made good on my plan to do so. It's a new story in the Mendaihu Universe, and I'm not entirely sure where it's going to go, but I have high hopes. I won't reveal too much yet, at least not until I get more situated here.
Also: the Daily 750 is working out as well with the semi-serious 'Lidwells Story' project. I say 'semi-serious' because I'm writing this completely for the fun of it. It's written like a fictional music biography in interview form, though there are moments outside of the interviews that are being used as a bit of framework. As for whether I'll release it or submit it somewhere, I'm not thinking about that at the moment. I just want to write the thing for the fun.
So what, in fact am I really working on, projectwise? Everything, it seems. And I'm okay with that. :)
