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18 may 2000
----- Pic is from the last (Hollywood) gig ... we're playing this Saturday night in West LA, if you so desire to come. Details here. ~~~ I seem to get my best thinking done in the car. It must be an LA thing. Driving home from a marathon rehearsal tonight, worrying about my lead vocals ... mind drifting all over from there, like a slideshow, moving ... gotta re-register the car, I hope a cop doesn't pull me over ... do I have enough clothes at my old apartment to last me until the new one is ready for occupancy ... when will I finish this fucking move ... I hope the band doesn't fuck up on Saturday ... why is my ex wrapped up in another relationship so soon ... how many times does "don't walk" blink before it goes solid ... why does McDonald's taste better late at night ... what day is today ... thursday ... tomorrow's friday ... cool ... what am I doing tomorrow night ... nothing ... nothing? And I stopped there, my mind reached out and caught that thought, and held it. Tomorrow night I'm doing nothing. My first "unbooked" evening in lord-knows-how-long. So I sat and wondered what to do, and I decided to work on my lead vocals. From there, it was just a question of how to do that ... And I'm still stumped. I've never sang the tune without the band playing it. Generally, I don't sing at all outside the band. Well, maybe the occasional sing-a-long with the car radio, and an even less occasional foray into acappella shower crooning, but I've never really sat down, by myself, and tried to work on my vocals. Do I need to do this in the car? If so, how do I find the right key, given the fact that I'm currently having trouble singing in tune while the whole band is there to accompany me? Or do I practice in the shower, letting the running water find me an indefinite pitch? Or, I could just use my little $19.95 casio piece of shit, the same little keyboard I wrote the song on originally. But it's not loud enough, and my voice will sound so, dare-I-say, prominent. Maybe it's just what I need ... who knows? I wonder how the casio will work in the shower. Nah, that would most certainly mean electrocution for me, or, at the very least, a waterlogged tone generator. The car? Yeah sure, I'll find the right chords on the keyboard while steering and shifting gears and singing and worrying about a cop pulling me over for my expired registration, not to mention the fact that I'm playing a musical instrument while driving. Is there a law against that? If so, does it apply to drumming on the steering wheel? Consider me very guilty of that. So, tomorrow night is off, I'm gonna work on me vocals. Considering my inherent shyness for singing without ample accompaniment, where should I do it, and how? 18 may 1999: didn't write : 18 may 1998: bummer : Work opened with an umpteen person conference call to our Manhattan office which turned out to be nothing more than a power struggle between two VPs over who gets to swing his big dick at the curve ball that is the Internet Services Department.
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