September 30, 2007 called on account of rain

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:04 pm

Fortunately it's bright and sunny here in San Francisco.

I've been pretty dang busy with work and such and haven't even been checking the boards. I really want to start working on music again but I'm uninspired. Which isn't entirely true because I'm always having song ideas pop into my head but I can't bring myself to try to record anything.

QotD: What do you do when you need inspiration?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:35 pm

Bright and sun shiny in the sunshine state too.

Still picking up shifts at the job I quit nearly two months ago. Slow on Sundays though. I'll be able to watch the whole football game today and get paid for it.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:46 pm

Weather is good here? I don't know. It's sunny. I haven't been outside yet.

qotd: I don't know. I haven't had a problem with that lately. I guess I listen to good music or read something amazing and then feel inspired to do something.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:04 pm

The endless wet has begun in the Pacific Northwest. Or at least in Portland, anyway.

QOTD: Schizophrenic noodling, switching between instruments rapidly (guitar-bass-drums currently, with the rain as counterpoint). Scales. Discordant noises, listening to the bad notes vibrate against each other as they decay. Letting my fingers do the work, and just going along for the ride. If something sounds even vaguely interesting, writing it out for later abuse. Listening to tapes of practices and cataloguing the "interesting" parts for later review.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:08 pm

Hoblit wrote:Still picking up shifts at the job I quit nearly two months ago. Slow on Sundays though. I'll be able to watch the whole football game today and get paid for it.

I've heard many opinions to the contrary, and I don't care what anybody says. Getting paid to do nothing in particular rocks ass.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:12 pm

fodroy wrote:qotd: I don't know. I haven't had a problem with that lately. I guess I listen to good music or read something amazing and then feel inspired to do something.

Maybe this is just me, because I'm not good at any instruments. But if I listen to some really good music, I sure do want to make some of my own. So in many cases, I will try, but it usually just ends with me saying, "Fuck. I'm not Robert Fripp after all," and leaving the studio in frustration and anger.

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:21 pm

QotD: What do you do when you need inspiration?

I recommend falling in love with someone unattainable and then channeling your frustration into creative output!

I'm exactly one-half joking, of course.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:30 pm

anti-m wrote:
QotD: What do you do when you need inspiration?

I recommend falling in love with someone unattainable and then channeling your frustration into creative output!

I'm exactly one-half joking, of course.

Actually, I can tell you, this works really well. I could barely write songs until this happened. Then it was kind of a catalyst for the songwriting process on the whole. But that's just assuming you don't want to sound like a broken record. It's probably perfectly acceptable to pull a Trent Reznor and write an entire album inspired by that. (Somebody told me that some information came out recently that indicated that the Downward Spiral was entirely about Tori Amos.)

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:40 pm

I usually dig out the songwriting notebooks and go back to some point in the past when I was all inspired and stuff and pull out a lyric and work with that. Once I have the lyric, putting something together musically is generally not too tough. Of course, this approach doesn't work for songfight unless I happened to be all inspired and stuff less than a week ago, by the title...

Stayed up late last night to watch the Japanese F1 GP (go, Lewis!) and then up early to walk the dogs, so I'm kinda draggin' today. Played the Strat for the offertory this morning in church, went by and took care of some things at my mom's, and now I'm just alternating between napping and changing loads of laundry. I did get my first Tuneflow song turned in today, we'll see how old KA fares over there...

Charles (KA)

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:16 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:
anti-m wrote:
QotD: What do you do when you need inspiration?

I recommend falling in love with someone unattainable and then channeling your frustration into creative output!

I'm exactly one-half joking, of course.
Actually, I can tell you, this works really well. I could barely write songs until this happened. Then it was kind of a catalyst for the songwriting process on the whole. But that's just assuming you don't want to sound like a broken record. It's probably perfectly acceptable to pull a Trent Reznor and write an entire album inspired by that. (Somebody told me that some information came out recently that indicated that the Downward Spiral was entirely about Tori Amos.)

While I doubt that, it would be frickin' hilarious considering Tori Amos's body of work. (which one would you believe?)

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:04 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:
anti-m wrote:
QotD: What do you do when you need inspiration?

I recommend falling in love with someone unattainable and then channeling your frustration into creative output!

I'm exactly one-half joking, of course.
Actually, I can tell you, this works really well.

Of course it works really well! Look at WB Yeats!

That's why I was only 1/2 joking.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:29 pm

Hoblit wrote:While I doubt that, it would be frickin' hilarious considering Tori Amos's body of work. (which one would you believe?)

I'll check into it for you. I got this tidbit from an absurdly obsessive NIN fan.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:55 pm

QOTD: When I need inspiration, I google 'random word generator' and use the first thing on the top of the list.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:24 pm

Here.

Qotd: Put on my guitar and start playing.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:03 am

It was a public holiday here, which sucks, because today was my first day of Part Time work. Dammit! I like the idea of getting paid for a mandatory holiday.

QOTD: I don't really know where inspiration comes from. In some cases, it's from a bottle of JDs, and in other cases... not. Oddly, though, I find it hard to write when depressed.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:56 am

Fluffy - It sounds like you're suffering more from lack of motivation than inspiration. Certainly understandable with all you've been doing lately. I know that sometimes if I take a break from recording it's hard to get the flow going again, so I'll record anything. It doesn't have to be good or even keepable, but just something to get the 'ol ball rolling again.

Inspiration, for me, usually comes from taking something else in, whether music, a book, a movie, funny/sad/horrific story. I do keep a song file of just scratch-pad riffs, chord progressions, etc. that I come up with and keep for possible future use. I've used a few and chucked many away.

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:56 pm

QOTD:
Drink booze

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:25 am

My current excuse is not being able to figure out how to get the recording levels commensurate with the monitoring levels on this goddamn mixer. Plus being fucking busy between work, my comic, and video games and all the awesome TV shows that are on the air now. Yet I'm still buying recording equipment I have no need (or room) for. What the hell.

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