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Work Sucks - A M-F Daily Diary

Dreams and Nightmares

• I woke up this morning from a cool dream only to realize I have to go to work.
• I lied there thinking about why this seemed so dreadful.
• I realized I have had 8 bosses in the past 2.5 years.
• Three of them have been part time.

Music Rocks - A “When I Get Time” Daily Diary

Free Concerts

Went to the Santa Monica Pier last night for their final free summer concert - Toots and the Maytals.  This is beyond cool on a number of levels.

1. 10,000  people on the pier and beach - 50% of them girls.
2. A fantastic reggae band playing in the warm summer air with the breeze blowing the occassional SoCal weed smell in my face.
3. It’s all FREE.

Oh the irony…these guys played to 10,000 people who didn’t pay anything but the band probably got paid plenty.  Meanwhile, it costs $10 to get into our show and we don’t make shit.  Oh well…at least I got my free dose of Toots.

–Joey Flores

The Capitalist Hippie Complex
www.CapitalistHippie.com
http://www.myspace.com/thechc

Work Sucks - A M-F Daily Diary

Today, work sucked.  Why?

1. It existed.
2. I found myself drawn to it through fear of no paycheck.
3. Despite several hours of work, I got absolutely nothing accomplished.
4. My new office chair seems really bad for my back.
5. I would have rather been doing 1.6 million other things.

Music Rocks - A “When I Get Time” Daily Diary

Editing 101

We have just started editing our new recordings.  This is an entirely new process to me.  Previously, I just wondered what was taking my partner so long to get our tracks done.  This time, he invited me to join in the process and now I see that it is:

1. Making sure we have the right soft and hardware to get the job done without losing any of the sound quality from the recordings.
2. Listening to take after take of the same songs over and over again.
3. Taking exhaustive notes on which takes are best during which parts of the song, from a whole chorus down to the drum fill going into measure 108.
4. Recognizing what can be fixed and what cannot through the use of computers.
5. Cutting each part out and fitting them together perfectly with the other pieces.
6. Listening to each song again over and over to make sure that you got all the right parts and that they sound good once put together.
7. Fixing the little things that you’ve determined need to be perfected through a little slicing and dicing.

Now, imagine that we are only doing this for drums, bass and piano right now.  Still to come - guitar, keyboards, vibraphone, trumpet, trombone, sax, a 4-piece string section on one of the songs, and two vocalists with doubling and effects.

This is an ubelievable amount of work and, yet, the most fun thing I have ever experienced.

–Joey Flores

The Capitalist Hippie Complex
www.CapitalistHippie.com
http://www.myspace.com/thechc