Blog: A Sudden Moment Of Quiet

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It was a strange and unusual weekend for me, as i STAYED AT HOME. THE WHOLE TIME.

This was not the initial plan - not only did we have things PLANNED, we also had OTHER things that we couldn't go to BECAUSE of the aforesaid PLANS, but at the last and penultimate minutes everything DIDN'T happen and I ended up at home for the WHOLE weekend for the first time in about four MONTHS.

It was LOVELY! I had a SMALL list of things to do, and DID them. I continued my February Album Writing Month activities with a couple more songs, for instance, which brought me up to HALFWAY slightly ahead of schedule - not ENOUGH ahead of schedule to be relaxing, what with the Dinosaur Planet dates in Leicester, Watford and Nottingham that are coming forth, but still on schedule, i think.

Talking of Dinosaur Planet, I also found a couple of hours to sit and listen INTENTLY to all the dialogue scenes, ready for some further tweaking on Thursday when I'm in the studio again. Most scenes need a little bit of tightening up (one scene is in for a HEAVY EDIT, as it turns out Two Men In An Office, Chatting sounds a bit BORING coming so close to the DESTRUCTION OF A CATHEDRAL CITY) but a couple of them are SO THERE that I had to listen to them again just to check HOW AMAZING they were. I'm HOPING that by the end of this week I'll have a complete (in components, tho not in final mix stage) version of THE LOT for the very first time. I am insuring my BRANE in case it gets BLOWN.

Meanwhile, in distant DERBY Mr V Vorton was sending me the latest version of our forthcoming DUET, "Brokeback Workbench", which we're working on for the Geekpop Festival. Over the course of Saturday I recorded my vocals, also GUITAR and BASS parts and by the end of the day he had FINISHED it, MIXED it and sent it over to the organisers. I know collaborating with people ONLINE is old news but CRUMBS it didn't half feel modern!

And all the time THIS was going on I was writing up my BRAND NEW IDEA - one which, i am convinced, is DEFINITELY the one which will allow me to FINALLY buy that mansion. Every other time I have said this I wasn't really sure, but this time i DEFINITELY AM. I'll tell you about it when it's ready, don't worry!

It wasn't all WORK WORK WORK tho, myself and The Trees In My Woods went for a LOVELY and EXTENSIVE walking through nearby Epping Forest, during which I told her about ALL of the above, as well as a few ideas for the future ALSO, which took up the entire two hours of our strolling. What a lucky woman she is! Surely NOTHING could be more romantical on Valentine's Day than listening to ME bang on about Various Projects for two hours, right?

So that was the weekend ... it doesn't seem like it was all that quiet now!

posted 14/2/2011 by MJ Hibbett

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