catsittingstill

I got less mixing done yesterday. About half an hour, I think, mostly deciding I didn't want to make any more changes in Sociopaths. Somehow it only seems like mixing if you change something--maybe I ought to think of it as "mixing and evaluating" because listening to something, trying changes, and then deciding you liked it better the original way really does take time and energy and therefor ought to qualify as work.

At any rate the reason I did so little mixing is because I decided I really Had To write that song for the League of Women Voters like I'd been saying I would, seeing that the Annual Meeting is a week away (as of yesterday) and it would be smart to practice it some before I perform it. It was going to be about the League of Women Voters but it ended up being about the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 that is usually thought of as kicking off the whole drive to get women the vote.

I actually bought a book about the convention and the beginning of the women's rights movement, which I'm about 40% through. I've read up through the convention and a little bit past it, and I know the rest is going to be pretty depressing because, well, the convention was in 1848 and women didn't get the vote until 1920 which suggests some pretty severe setbacks along the way.

Writing the song took me about three hours I guess, which was kind of a chunk out of the available time, but also a load off my mind, with the meeting coming up, and then I had to go proofread to get the day's chunk of proofreading done.

And today I'm going to re-record the vocals for Atheist's Anthem because it seems to me like I'm kind of drifting subtly in and out of tune on them, and I would be happy to get something better. And I have the recording time reserved and nothing else that seems to need it right now so why not.

I will put up the new song pretty soon but I need some time to get the countermelody down properly.