mixing & one more reason to avoid facebook

jai bound any minute now...

me & DSpanner found ourselves locked in to OTR studios last night with M, the guy mixing us, who had recorded the band on sunday...

some muppet had padlocked the door on leaving, without checking to see whether anyone was still in the building...

this was discovered around 12:30 am with 3 out of the 4 tracks mixed...

anyway, aside from a few mad moments - M considering climbing over a razor wire fence - M considering hot-wiring the goods lift - we got all our mixing done and the muppet returned to let us out...

interesting experience working with a hard disk recorder, no computer screens to interact with, the whole thing taking a touch longer in certain situations, but an experience all about the ears and not the eyes which is refreshing...

so DSpanner drove me home, he had to get up for school in the morning, glad i didn't...

at a certain point i realised that it was a bit like the day before, walking around kew gardens with emivore, really not wanting to look at the time because time had expanded and i didn't want to return to normal time yet...

yesterday i'd been working, 11 through to 7, then a stroll over to the studio, then mixing from 7:30 to 2:15...

we looked at the time when the drama happened, (12:30 ish), but even this i resisted...

i was sat there pushing through, not knowing what the time was, not wanting to know, just knowing that we had to get the mixing done...

everything always takes longer than you think it will in the studio...

ok, and then facebook... i'm a fan of the SJP's on facebook, so i wrote on our wall just now, reporting on the mixing... and it disappeared into the "just fans" tab... so it's not on the wall, unless you click on that tab...

i'm not just a fan...!

just one more reason why i personally should not try and interact with facebook, it is set up to upset me... i see that now... i don't know how they did it... but they definitely had me in mind when they set that thing up... "no wait, hang on... if we do it like this it'll really twist his mind up"...

i wouldn't be surprised if they've got access to the little camera in my laptop, everytime i log on to facebook it logs the video taken from that camera, so they can see the irritated looks on my face... and laugh...

x

i have been ignoring facebook for awhile now and today, particularly after speaking with felinity yesterday... i gave in...

did the dawn project this morning and i did do a videoblog, even though i'd told myself i wasn't going to... at least not every week... but i've been knee deep in marking all day and haven't had a chance to edit it...

felinity met me yesterday to buy me my birthday present, a ritual we began on her birthday, (or was that last year?) and she got me the birth of the cool music, scored out for 9 musicians...

i can't wait to get my teeth into it and get an arrangement for my piano...

we almost went to see transformers... it looks like that'll be saturday night now... and we did eat in the chinese place we eat at and drank in the salisbury... awfully nice as ever...

and earlier on during the day i'd been to the BFI, largely to play chess with the bookseller there (although he didn't have his board with him) & i took the opportunity to check out the new back bit...

and it is lovely...

it has a media centre there where you can search the BFI's archives... some day soon i will be perusing randomly...

anyway, still marking and i've got to get myself ready to gig tonight so i'll leave it @ that x