slowly coming around

*dusts off cobwebs*

So I am 99.99% finished recording the CD, which I think I am going to call Paragraph, since it's one word that signifies a single idea represented by a few sentences, without ever saying what that idea is. If I want to be really pretentious, I can say it's part of a cycle, with Crisis of Location being three words (and put out in 2003!), Plaid Flag being two and Paragraph as the one-word conclusion. Right now I am thinking the track listing will be as follows:

1. 1993
2. Just Visiting
3. Pace Around the House
4. Secret Language
5. Bring It Back
6. Here Now, There Now
7. Waves
8. Write Your Ballads
9. Stereo Tree
10. I-101

I have not decided what "I-101" will finally be called, nor am I totally happy with where "Stereo Tree" is on the list, but it is subject to review.

On Radiohead's Kid A, there's a song called "Everything in Its Right Place," which the band has said finally helped crystallize what the album would sound like. They had been trying to follow OK Computer in a bunch of different ways before deciding to head in an entirely different direction. Plaid Flag was my attempt at recording all the songs I had written junior and senior years at W&M for posterity, so I didn't really try to come up with a "sound" for it. This one definitely has a sound, and "Stereo Tree" was the song that made me realize that. I've learned more about inspiration and the creative process and stuff like that while making this than I thought I would. It's been (mostly) solitary work, but rewarding as hell. I hope people like it.

Now, if only I could figure out what parametric EQ is.