Weekends

9/25-27 Practice with the band. Dashboard on Sunday?
10/2-4 Practice with the band. Lovefest?
10/9-11 Birthday weekend
10/16-18 Nerf Herder on Saturday.

My weekdays are all the same. Some variety on Thursdays at the studio.

Here's a new vlog for you guys.

So I thought about it

I've decided to handle the behind-the-scenes of Public Gluttony instead of actually performing. It's not that I don't have the ability to perform in a pop-punk band, but I would rather be a song-writer/producer/engineer/manager.

New to-do list:
Write songs
Make friends with my new professor
Get money for Vegas (sell my body?)

GUESS WHAT?!

I got my very first 4.0 GPA!!

And in other very awesome news,




PUBLIC GLUTTONY IS BACK! If you don't know who that is, you're in for a treat. We're your new favorite band. We're back with 2 new members (one of which is me).

So here's the plan

Not sure if I've iterated this before but this is what I want to start doing next year concerning recording arts:

1) Record depositions
-I'll probably call up Mr. Isler and see if he's got anything for me

2) Master recordings
-I don't necessarily have to be there for the recording part. Someone else records and picks the takes. I just do the finishing touches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_mastering

3) Recording Producer/Engineer
-So pretty much I'll be running an independent studio wherever I can and have clients come record with me :D
-I'd love to find a job at another studio but it's really hard to find a studio that's hiring cause you really only need 2 people running the place.

Especially in this economy.

I just realized how wide widescreen really is

Sometimes I feel like I'm not learning enough. Through countless (not really) years of public schools, it's been hard-wired into my brain that if I'm not learning what other people want me to learn, I'm wasting my brain. Here's what my brain has been up to:

-Video production
I can't get enough of figuring out things in this area. Effects, transitions, shooting style, technical stuff like encoding and anything else I might have missed.

-Visual pleasance training; not sure if I worded that well but basically how good things look behind a lens or in a frame

-Audio engineering
OMG my love and life right now. EQ, compression, ADATs, mixers, mics, mic placement, all that stuff.

-Ear training, not so much in the sense of music theory anymore, but a different but related sense of space and EQ

-Visualizing music more linearly. I think looking at it left to right more like a DAW sequencer can help me write better melodies.

-Computer system security
I didn't think I'd be too interested at first but I'm taking a class about computer hacking and prevention. It's awesome.

There's a whole bunch of other stuff but I don't want to write so much at 2:40 AM. Getting sleepy. These are the main things anyway.

My driving philosophy is to be ready. For what? I don't know. At some level, it's more of a "for who" rather than "for what," but it's not a huge thing.


In other news, I think I'll grow my hair again for a little bit. Probably until my mom offers to pay for a hair cut hahahah!

Recording fail

I've been recording all morning. It's so tiring and frustrating cause I haven't gotten a single good take yet. The reason why I'm having such trouble is cause I'm not much of a performer; I'm mediocre at best. I'm not gonna tell you guys what I'm recording but it's pretty awesome.

I'm taking a break right now. I need to redraw what I'm going to do:

Today
Map out song
Make drum track
Record Bass

Later
Record Guitars 1 and 2
Record Vocals
Record live drums

Later later
Record video
Edit

Wish us luck!