Update Monday, April 7. Beach Town

Silent-era stars Dorothy Sebastian and Joan Crawford
on the beach

Yesssir, that's the life. Young and stylish and carefree. Lunching on the beach with a pal. Say, you brought your "uke" -- Let's have a song!

This picture reminds me of post-production music work in many ways. I too eat sandwiches!

Last week, I completed two new songs and sent them to David Thomas to begin mixing.

David and I also completed the mix-down of all the performance songs (ie: the bands). Now they sound great and are ready to go in the picture. I should mention that when I say "David and I" what I mean is David had already done the actual mixing and the brains part, and I came in and sat around and said stuff like "can we have a little more of that whatchacallit... that one."

I also roughed in three other songs, and I'm hoping to complete at least a couple of them during the next week. I tried out some alternate guitar tunings on one of them. (But not the Curtis Mayfield tuning... yet).

Beyond that, I also spent a lot of time trawling around and listening to local bands via various online resources to find like-minded individuals who might want to Collaborate with me.

There are a lot of good bands out there.  And of course, I want to Collaborate if at all possible.

But it never fails to amaze me how a song can seem like it'd work perfectly for a scene, but then when you actually go into the picture and put it over the scene, it's no good for reasons that aren't clear until you see it.

Nuance is the key thing.

Nuance is a nuisance.

But it's also the difference between good and "okay".

Roasted and burned.

Bleu cheese and rotten.