I did some work over the weekend. I found this Indian tabla loop on  Garageband, and I'm using it for one of my songs. After listening to Sgt. Peppers, I've always wanted to record something that sounds Indian. I was trying to record this one to sound like Heroin, but it just didn't work out. I didn't have enough interest in it. But for this Indian version, I'm always excited to work, which is necessary and vital. I'm using an old Squier strat as an Ostrich guitar, which means that all the strings are tuned to the same note. The sound has a lovely shimmer and it sounds like a sitar, at times. I actually rewrote the whole song lyrically to fit the music. I have the rhythm track down. I need violin and lead vocals for now, and then I'll mess around with overdubbing if I have time. I had a change in ideas for another of my songs, Tony & Jen. I was thinking some guitar part, like from Run, Run, Run, and talking the lyrics over the music. But this weekend, I couldn't stop listening to Sweet Jane and Rock & Roll. Those were the two songs for the weekend, and I was influenced enough to make Tony & Jen sound like a Lou Reed tune. I've already come up with a chord progression, and I have some ideas. This one will be easy hopefully. The Non-Sequiturist by Mark Lesseraux is a good song to follow for this one, too.

Today I began to doubt whether or not I could finish this EP. I'm definitely retreating to a fallback position. I haven't done much work, and it's basically summer out, the weather's nice, and all my friends are constantly calling me to hang out. It's really hard! I haven't lost any motivation in completing the EP, though. I'm just going to have to change things around because of the loss of time. I'm cutting out my last two songs I had written, which are Blue and Good Morning Vietnam. I think these were my stronger songs of the whole bunch, in terms of lyrics, but they were the least interesting to me. Usually, when I think about a song of mine that I'm really into, I get excited to record even if I haven't started laying down anything, but these two songs don't catch my attention at all. They're done. I wrote them, and there's nothing more that's going to come out of those two songs. I'm definitely remorseful that I don't have the time to at least try to make these into recordings, but I know that if I tried now, I would have a horrible time. 

I have an idea for an Intro, too. While I was recording my first song, I was looking through the loop library, which has a lot of interesting sounds. There's this loop called Delicate Piano and I just slipped it into the beginning of the song. It's quiet and fades out by the time the song actually begins, but that gave me an idea. I remember records where the intro track carries over to the beginning of the second song, like  Sgt. Peppers into With A Little Help From My Friends. My idea is to have a single piano playing some riff while I do a monologue that I'll write. It'll be a weird mashup of these two scenes from Tarnation, one a young Jonathan Caouette talks about his life and mother while the other is an older Jonathan filming himself. I'm not sure what it'll be about, but it's keeping me interested. I'm excited (and scared) to write something that isn't a song.