Haven't wrote anything for a while. But I have to say I've done a lot of thinking and soul searching and spending a shitload of money.
My goal of making a home recording studio is really working out now. I kind of got set back dropping $800 on a huge tv that barely fits on my desk, but I really think music is becoming, or maybe it always was, my life.
Today I also bought an Apogee Duet, a digital/analog converter which basically allows me to record instruments and vocals crystal clear. And if I hook it up with my best headphones, music sounds AMAZING. I've never heard songs as clear as they do now. I can literally hear vocalists breathing on their microphones. It was $500, and I have yet to feel the sting of the ridiculous purchase.
I just need to buy a decent condensor microphone to record vocals, acoustic guitar, and piano, which will cost around $300 to basically set up my recording setup. This is an AKG Perception 220, which is around that price.
This is an Alesis Micron, which is an awesome machine that does vocoder, except I don't plan on going completely T-Pain and Kanye with it, costs about $300.
I still want an electric guitar, like a Stratocaster, which will cost me another $500 or so,
and this Nord Electro, which is super awesome electric piano that has organs and such built in it. Costs around $1600, so I won't be able to afford this for a while.
I love everything about music. I love how music can transform any moment in your life into an emotional and thoughtful one. Like walking in the park or driving down the freeway. It helps me cope with my feelings, allows me to relax, makes me want to dance.
Animal Collective's new album is seriously the best thing that has happened to me this year so far. Who would've known that music can teach you so much, hell, anything at all?! This music is pure enjoyment. "In The Flowers", the song I have up right now, is such an inspirational track. The lyrics kind of reflect the band's sound, and my new found appreciation of everything. I've begun to realize my tastes in music have developed from preconceived notions. To be honest, I thought this music was weird at first. But I only thought that way because I thought others would think it was weird. I was thinking in the lines of how I believed that society would view the music. I learned to not assume anything when I listen to music, and take it as its face value. In fact, I apply that mentality of all aspects of my life now.
The lyric "feeling envy for the kid who'll dance despite anything" says it all. It doesn't matter what people think. It's about how you
feel and the ability to indulge in anything, whether it's something big or small. Kids are so much wiser in the fact that they have the ability to appreciate anything, where as you grow older you just want more. You see, I realized that happiness isn't proportional to the amount of success you've achieved in life, it's rather its own constant. I never really understood the idea until now that a homeless man can be happier than a rich man, but it's all about the
perspective and the ability to appreciate.
I want to make a music video SO badly for this song, or like a musical film or something for the whole album. It's so good. Anyone reading this should really check them out. Listen to this song, and imagine this. My idea for the video would be a guy walking through a desert or an outback with heatwaves and off focus shots, and he stops and sees that there's a single flower on the really dry rocky ground, and he picks it up, and looks around, and he sees a mirage-like figure of a girl and he walks towards her, and then starts running, and when the crescendo begins in the song, it flashes white and then the whole desert becomes fields of grass and flowers and he continues to follow her and she kind of dances along sort of... I don't know it looks so amazing in my head! I want to film something like this really soon.
