Up at 6:30. Breakfast. Neighbor was using laundry room, had to wait a bit. Took 4 loads down, got Back upstairs at 8.
Sat 15 min. Made coffee.
Read a few p. of Breezeway. Hooked up computer and keyboard so I could record immediately after a short walk. Recorded fixes for several sections of the piano part, added to the celeste part as well. Only took a few takes each, maybe 20 min. Started to edit/comp, had to go back downstairs to bring up laundry. Done w/ that a little after 10? Edited in Logic another couple hours, replayed a couple measures, made rough mix of the new track, sent to Mac. Will wait to send real files until he okays it.
Called Dad about 1:45, talked about 45 min., put Bree on the phone (hadn’t since around Christmas).
Kinda drifted until a little before 4:30. Put on KSPC livestream for a while - listened to the extremely long-running Sunset Review, a sort of cut-rate local Bob & Ray involving a made-up town called Merkis Palms.
Worked for an hour, maybe less, on figuring out how to bounce/save audio + MIDI tracks instead of sending Mac the Logic session, since he’s using ProTools. Not too bad, also figured out how to join regions.
Tried to close some tabs. Read Artforum pieces on the postponed Philip Guston show, the meatiest by Robert Slifkin:
“Modern art, Guston’s paintings seem to say, ought to be ashamed of itself….But of course, his self-recrimination was predicated on his position of privilege.” [This is close to my current attitude toward indie-rock, and my own involvement in it.]
“Guston was a tortured aesthete, someone who felt torn between his commitment to artistic freedom and social justice—a position, I’d venture, that is shared by many artists and critics today. But his invocation of such a charged political symbol as a motif for this self-examination was insensitive and potentially offensive in ways that he and so many of his commentators since have not recognized, and his repeated statements that these images expressed his fascination with evil demand a greater level of scrutiny than they have yet received.” [Provocative, but I don’t quite sign on.]
Had KSPC’s “Forward Into the Past” show on much of the evening - 30’s music, and episodes of You Bet Your Life and Pat Novak, For Hire.
Decided I needed to reply to the response to the query I’d sent to Focusrite support. So I got the thing out and plugged it in so I could troubleshoot, and basically, it all worked. Got the proprietary software, got the headphones working, lined-in a guitar (wow am I out of practice) and recorded a couple tracks w/ different amp sounds in Logic. Had less luck with re-activating Sibelius.
Tried to help Bree fix the chain inside the toilet tank once in for all — we last went through this a year ago. I wasn’t that helpful.
Discovered that the Charles & Ray Eames film that the Human Hearts’ “Goods” is on YouTube:
Got involved watching some Logic instructional videos. Took my walk around 10, stayed up a bit, did Mon. Crossword, read last poem in Breezeway. Lights out after 11.