wasakan week post # 4

after last night's recording session, the band went to angel's sweden love party to have some drinks and relax with friends, in celebration of angel's 22nd year of life. engineer joey and maite plus engineer edu also arrived in support of sweden love, and soon we were talking about how edu gets his shorts for halik ni gringo gigs, and ean's devirginization. haha. it was sort of surreal, being with the band and drinking outside of the context of gigs. angel's ipod was playing on speakers and the +/- song "leap year" came on and ean kathy selena jing (now renamed magnus gaddi haha) and i lost ourselves in the music (haha cliche, kadiri) and i knew i was wherever i was supposed to be? i like that feeling.

friday's session joe and ean arrived at the studio while i was doing a vocal take. we didn't expect them to be there, the members who were scheduled to track were just me and selena, with kathyg filming the "making of the album" documentary so it was a quiet night and when the guitarists got to the studio i realized how much i missed them and how much more fun a recording session is when they're there (aww)

we've nearly finished all the vocals, and not to wax poetic or anything, but i really think the whole process of recording an album is like taking a picture of how a band works at the time of recording, and depending on how closely you listen you can see things about yourself (if you're the one doing the recording) that you don't normally see, and how songs change during recording and after recording and how you change as the songs change, and how you adjust to recording parts that you can't do live, and basically just finding how you can do something the best that you can do it, and deciding what's real and how you show it, and i dunno what i'm saying but i love feeling that between all the money we spent and all the sleep we lost and all hoarseness, lockjaw, repetitive stress injury, etc, that the recording of this album is gonna be a great picture soon?

haha walang sense don't mix your metaphors

owel