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04/30/2003 entry: "ALL DONE!"

I'm all done with homework tonight. I'm happy. Now I get to start worrying about homework for Thursday and Friday. Yay.

You know what I like? Writing songs that I think are at least somewhat good. Like, I'll be practicing them and there's just this one part of the song that sounds soooo right and I'm so proud of myself for it. I think I need to branch out a bit more in regards to the notes I'm using, but that can come in time. Hell, I just used an E7 in my newest one...

I try to keep track of what I consider my best songs to be. I think I counted 6 today. Well, if I fix a couple others, maybe 7 or 8.

I think once I can start messing around with my electric at home, I may add another to that total. I need to experiment with my electronic possibilities, which I don't get to do a whole lot when I'm here. Though I do have that drum machine program. I love that thing. I need to play with it more.

But this summer I really really really want to do super-fucking-good recordings of all the songs. I have a couple of recordings, but they aren't super-fucking-good. And maybe I'll be able to do them better once we convert the basement into a practice room. Plus, maybe I can actually get my sister to play some drums for me. Otherwise I'd have to rely on my program. If I had a laptop, I'd totally be able to bring that into the practice room to use my drum machine program. Otherwise I'll have to deal with extra shit.

Then... once I have things recorded... then I can make a new plan. I don't know what exactly. I've had things I've talked about in the past. Such as leaving demo tapes at record stores, like I've seen people do. At least creating a new mp3.com page. Maybe the first thing to do would just be to let friends listen to it and tell me what they think. Like, really what they think.

I don't know. It's all up in the air right now, I mean I haven't even got one song recorded well yet. But soon. Soooon I will. Because I have to. It's just... I don't really know how to explain it. Hm. This is interesting. Well, I think it says enough to explain it through the fact that music is really important to me.

I also think I'd really like to learn the blues style. I love musicians who have that kind of bluesy-country-rock sound to them. Such good shit. White Stripes. Liz Janes. CCR. All totally different sounds, yet they have this common mix of styles, just in different degrees. I saw the White Stripes on Conan earlier today. Jack White fucking played the hell out of his guitar. Fuck. Like, I just sat there swearing at the TV. In a good way, though. Is it at all attractive for a girl to swear like a sailor? I have no clue. Not like it's going to stop me, I'm just curious.

I swear for good and bad things though. Like, if I have this really crazy dream, that's really kind of good but sticks in my head and I keep thinking about it... yeah Nia, remember? "Fuck. FUCK. Fuck fuck fuck. Goddammit." Hehe that was an interesting day in Omaha.

Speaking of dreams, I should get to sleep. I wonder what my brain has in store for me tonight. Probably more dreams like last night. Do you believe it? Okay, let me quickly say this. I had a dream last night with this person in it, and they came to my house and I think I was supposed to go out with them or something. Well, I'm fucking running around my house looking for my other shoe, making them wait.I don't think I ever found the damn thing and I never got to see what would have happened had I said "fuck it, let's go". And when I woke up, I was like, "IT WAS A DREAM, WHAT DID I NEED MY SHOES FOR?? GODDAMMIT!" Haha. I need to start working on my lucid dreaming again.

Anyway, let's try this again. I'm going to bed. Goodnight.