1 day

woke up this morning (bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom)


and i was half hoping the video would be rendered...

but was not ready for the news that...

it's going to take (current estimate) 1 day...

24 hours...

that's big...

my mum in town... x

rendering

leaving aside the fact that this week's improvisation took 30 hours to render (because of foolishness), in a normal week, with this new way of working with dailymotion,

let's say 9 hours of rendering, plus 2 hours of uploading...

set against 3 hours rendering and about an hour's uploading...

that's quite a bit of extra time, every week,

when i 1st started making video's i was rendering bits of video which took 30 minutes or so, sometimes as much as an hour and i was surprised... i had my rhodes right there by the computer and in the period i wrote a number of different chord sequences, 2 of which became songs for my dinah (the neurotic love song, long may this be true)...

over time i got used to the amount of time video took to render, it became less special, the time flew by and i didn't necessarily do anything productive like writing chords...

but this new paradigm, it's such a leap in terms of time, i'm really noticing it and it's like a gift of time, time i can't spend in front of this computer....

i'm reading more,

harmonic experience is looking at me with a suggestive tilt... motioning (or implying motion) towards the harmonium...

i have an album to write now, i don't know if i've mentioned it, but i think i want to do an album, songs from the past few years, including pre-dinah tunes like:

love is lies,
harbour walls,
on my mind,

and then dinah's:

long may this be true,
the neurotic love song,
stardust,
it ain't gonna stop,

the stranger tune...

when i wake up? - maybe,

and then who knows how many other tunes i have yet to write...

also, while i've got this small work life i want to take advantage of the freedom,

time...

PS - i didn't get out of bed before 11:30, the dawn project part 2 will have to wait a little longer x

prog rock out of sorts

strangely out of sorts tonight,

despite having a great day...

i met a new friend today, name of S, he offered me a tamarind while i was sat talking to yimkin after work this afternoon...

bumped into nippy as well and as they both went off to teach their respective classes i chatted awhile with S, sufism, islam, dreams, angels, the new £20 note, creativity and theory...

very nice it was too, hopefully catch up with him again one day,

then i cycled home via manolis's who was also philosophical...

why we can't just accept that we don't know that god exists and leave it at that?

i accept when a woman doesn't love me, i don't wish i was younger or richer i just accept it,

then we can rest...

this u-turn from god to women brought on a huge deja vu for me and also put me in mind of a character in a cortazar novel...

i gave the tamarind S had given me to manolis who stuck two cocktail sticks into it, cut off the end and started trying to grow it in a glass of water...

i still have one more tamarind which is for dinah...

i also did my weekly improvisation this early afternoon, it's rendering now, and immediately afterwards a chord sequence came to me that sounds like it belongs in a progressive rock tune...

i've just played it for about 30 minutes and it's great, it links up (kind of) with some chords i wrote yesterday while jamming with JtJP & D over @ hammersmith...

the creativity continues apace,

but this peculiar out of sorts ness...?

x

foolish again

Wshaman(floopy) came round tonight with his new for christmas chess set...

we didn't get it out in the end because we were working on my film, water & improvisation - also a little bit of thought on the new film as well..

i'm deeply in debt to him for tonight... several hours of work and it's almost finished now... just a decision about the colours... and maybe a second opinion from spanna if i can pin her down to a day...

dinah had been out at the theatre and when she came home we were wrapping up the work and we fell to chatting and playing cards...

a very pleasant evening indeed, and once the evening drew to a close around 1 am i set about preparing the film for rendering, intending to set it going and then go to bed, checking it in the morning...

but it seemed to be going so quickly... it's estimate of how long it would be was only around 30 minutes...

shame to leave the computer on all night for only 30 minutes of rendering i thought to myself, i'll stay up until it's done...

and of course it took a lot longer than it thought it might... and i'm still awake @ 4 in the morning even though my baby went to bed around 3 hours ago...

so i'm taking my foolish self to bed right now...

x