Instead of baking some bread and getting some cleaning done, I spent a good chunk of time multi-tracking this song with my ancient Canon Powershot. It's funny that I know so many people with recording knowledge, but that I still prefer to half-ass my own songs with video or terrible computer mics. I just have this belief that my vocals and simple songs can't stand up to high quality sound .. Plus, adding fresh guitar lines and background vocals by playing them over a previous video makes the original sound all fuzzy and hollow. I always get feedback (nice squealing noise, right?) but I sort of like it like that. I've got Audacity on my EeePc but I haven't gotten my inbound sound working with Ubuntu, so video multi-tracking it is!
The new song I recorded somewhat reflects what I've been listening to, which is unusual for me. I typically write the same bullshit over and over again. Maybe I'm just imagining it, but my diet of Superchunk, Yo La Tengo, Bonnie Prince Billy and Yes (yes!) is quietly working into the stuff I write.
Last night I attempted falafel for the first time (it came out tasting bang on, but I'm an asshole who can't fry anything properly) complete with:
- fresh discount pita from Sweis
- homemade tzatziki (extra garlic and lemon)
- vegetarian grapeleaf rolls from scratch
and, of course, the garnishing tray of baby greens, cucumber, tomato, and feta. I originally planned on baking the falafel but that went totally astray! They really started to fall apart during frying so I didn't even try taking a picture of them. I might try just pan-frying them next time because I honestly hate deep-frying anything. It's gross and there's too much cleanup for the pay off. Bleh!

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