Ex Mass Roundup
Christmas was nice. Sedate, if anything, filled with Scrabble, tea, presents, family, and Nanaimo bars. My best scores in the gift department were a Marshall MXL 990 microphone I’ve been fiending after for a while, and Robert Bringhurst’s essential Elements of Typograhic Style. I’ve already torn through a couple hundred pages of the latter (100 or so on Christmas itself, much to the bewilderment of my family). Apparently, my Mom looked everywhere in the store for it, before being informed it was housed in the Art section.
My Marshall mic is soon to be joined by a few companions (2 Nady CM90 small diaphragm condensers, a DM90 dynamic kick mic, and assorted accessories), my gift to myself this year. I’ll finally have a decent selection of mics to record, say, a full drum kit adequately. Still haven’t set up Cubase or any other multitracker on my new-ish laptop, but I may do that tonight, post-blogging, so I can be prepared tomorrow when the first batch of equipment arrives. OF course, I’ve finally picked up a good vocal mic while I have a nasty persistent cough (seems to be an annual thing for me).
Oh what else? Picked up a bunch of good music through legal and illicit means in the last little while. Les Savy Fav’s Pop Frenzy Tour EP, the Blow’s Poor Aim: Love Songs EP and Jaga Jazzist’s A Livingroom Hush are some of the recent faves. I picked up a bunch of jazz discs too, including some Max Roach Trio, some John Coltrane (an album I only had on vinyl till now), and some Thelonious Monk. Every once in a while I just get into a bit of a jazz mood and have to pick up a few more albums, to expand my slim collection. I’m even working on an Airliner tune that has a pretty jazzy feel to it at the moment.
Speaking of Airliner, I have a new collaboration tune available, a three-way track between myself, the Celibacy Club from Washington, and rowboat from Florida. I might expand my section of it at some point, as I’m pretty happy about it. We’ll see. I need to finish my clothing EP first.
In more Airliner news, I’m looking to set up a website strictly for Airliner related business, but alas, the domain name I really wanted was taken. Anyone with ideas for a domain name that ties into the “Airliner” name, but isn’t something stupid like “airlinermusic.com”, feel free to drop me a line.
Oh! Saw From Monument to Masses again, finally, at the Bottom of the Hill. Their new material is quite awesome, and their next release should be plenty interesting. They’re threatening to play at the Tradewinds in February. Fingers crossed….
Um…yeah. That’ all, I guess. More later….
