So I’ve been missing for a little while over here. Not a whole lot to talk about… I went on a vacation to Washington, D.C. a couple weeks back, and that was really really fun, educational, delicious, and somewhat debauched. I helped a friend move while there, spoke to another friend on the phone who I had expected to see, but ended up running out of time, and totally forgot a third friend even lived in the area (so I did not contact them). Then we came home and went back to work.

Last Sunday I went up to Lansing to record some vocals for the How Does It Know? EP… My ears were opened up to the possibilities of some vocal harmonies (something I haven’t played around with too much, since I’ve found it difficult to sing along to myself and not fall back into the original melody instead of singing the harmony). But I got some tips from John (i.e. recording the harmony with a keyboard, and singing along to that, without the original vocal playing back), and some random takes turned out some great ideas for harmonies on a couple songs. I hope to develop those ideas a little further this weekend when I have some time.

Outside of that, just working a lot, paying attention to the elections, trying to have some fun, and wishing summer wasn’t over yet. But now that the weather is crisper, I’m feeling more motivation to spend time doing some critical listening and work on the recording; we’ll see how that goes.