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This morning, I've been trying to get some work done with next-to-no inspiration -- the video Bryan Enk asked me to make for his anthology of short horror films. As it has been for weeks with this piece (Software), I have the concept, I have the equipment needed, I just don't have the spark. I'm making the whole thing with the built-in camera/microphone on Berit's iMac, and I did some tests yesterday, and some improvs "in character" to see if it worked, and it did, and I think I could probably improv the whole thing and cut it down to good material, but I still don't feel inspired because I don't see the whole thing in my head, structurally. I could probably just do it and figure that out in the editing, and it wouldn't matter in the end for this piece, but it's hard for me to get started without a specific structure completely THERE in my head. It's basically a guy's video diary as he gradually goes nuts, but I haven't got the time period straight in my head, or the levels of nuttiness he has to be at in each entry, and, even more importantly, what he physically presents in each new entry -- I've kept myself unshaven and slovenly for days, thinking we'd start with me looking like this at the end of the piece and moving backwards, and I'd clean myself up and shave more and more as we move backwards (probably lose the whole beard for the first entry, dammit), but as I don't know the rhythm of the whole thing, I don't know how clean/messy/etc. to make each piece (and he has to go back and forth, of course).
Now I just feel icky and desperately want a shower and shave, but I'm holding back, in case inspiration suddenly strikes.
Berit now seems more into getting this piece done than I do, but then she has a craft challenge to deal with, which always focuses her incredibly, even when, it seems, the challenge is in creating a small but extremely unpleasant gore effect -- which when first mentioned by me made her cringe, and then put her hands over her ears and yell that she didn't want to hear any more about it. Then she got into thinking about how to make it happen, so we'll see. She may just order me to buckle down and do the damn thing and stop agonizing over it (just so she can solve the problem of the effect).
And the iTunes came up with an oddly "heavy" mix on random this morning as I moped . . .
1. "Walkin' in the Bach's World" - The Stradivarius - Mindexpanders 2: In Search of the Exstatic Kinetic Bombastic Multi Freaked-Up Outerspacial Groove (yes, really, that's an album)
2. "Very Rare" - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
3. "Painter Man" - The Creation - How Does It Feel To Feel?
4. "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" - The Fifth Estate - Bubblegum Classics Volume 1
5. "Just to Be with You" - Paul Butterfield - The Electra Sessions
6. "Beat Girl" - ZZ & De Masters - Nederbeat The B-Sides 1
7. "Politician" - Cream - The Very Best of Cream
8. "Dans un Jardin d'Amour" - Johnny Halliday - Souvenirs Souvenirs
9. "The Black Page #2" - Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume 6
10. "Stengun" - Linda van Dyck - Beatmeisjes
Well, "heavy" except for the bubblegum and Johnny Halliday tracks, which wound up just feeling creepy and ironic in this context. That last track - "Stengun" - is a recent download, and woah, it's great. Sounds like The Yardbirds with a cool, distant, female singer.
I'll have to start culling the iTunes soon, I think. I've added a lot of indiscriminate downloads recently, and it's getting really 60s Pop/Garage/Italian Movie Soundtracks heavy. A little too much kitsch, maybe. I didn't think of it as kitsch when I loaded it, but, well, there's stuff I don't want to hear all that often (though no Italian groove instrumentals came up above, and the two Dutch tracks and the Creation track are keepers in any case). I cut 150 songs out a few days ago, and could go deeper if necessary.
There's about 16,100 songs in there at 54 gigs. The rule is no going above 60 gigs, so if there's good stuff to add, mediocre stuff has to go. The point is to have an iTunes of all stuff that would be good and interesting to listen to completely on shuffle. And I'll start cutting into the Zappa, Residents, and Elvis Costello for Berit's sake (though the Beefheart stays; there isn't really very much of it).
Now I just feel icky and desperately want a shower and shave, but I'm holding back, in case inspiration suddenly strikes.
Berit now seems more into getting this piece done than I do, but then she has a craft challenge to deal with, which always focuses her incredibly, even when, it seems, the challenge is in creating a small but extremely unpleasant gore effect -- which when first mentioned by me made her cringe, and then put her hands over her ears and yell that she didn't want to hear any more about it. Then she got into thinking about how to make it happen, so we'll see. She may just order me to buckle down and do the damn thing and stop agonizing over it (just so she can solve the problem of the effect).
And the iTunes came up with an oddly "heavy" mix on random this morning as I moped . . .
1. "Walkin' in the Bach's World" - The Stradivarius - Mindexpanders 2: In Search of the Exstatic Kinetic Bombastic Multi Freaked-Up Outerspacial Groove (yes, really, that's an album)
2. "Very Rare" - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
3. "Painter Man" - The Creation - How Does It Feel To Feel?
4. "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" - The Fifth Estate - Bubblegum Classics Volume 1
5. "Just to Be with You" - Paul Butterfield - The Electra Sessions
6. "Beat Girl" - ZZ & De Masters - Nederbeat The B-Sides 1
7. "Politician" - Cream - The Very Best of Cream
8. "Dans un Jardin d'Amour" - Johnny Halliday - Souvenirs Souvenirs
9. "The Black Page #2" - Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume 6
10. "Stengun" - Linda van Dyck - Beatmeisjes
Well, "heavy" except for the bubblegum and Johnny Halliday tracks, which wound up just feeling creepy and ironic in this context. That last track - "Stengun" - is a recent download, and woah, it's great. Sounds like The Yardbirds with a cool, distant, female singer.
I'll have to start culling the iTunes soon, I think. I've added a lot of indiscriminate downloads recently, and it's getting really 60s Pop/Garage/Italian Movie Soundtracks heavy. A little too much kitsch, maybe. I didn't think of it as kitsch when I loaded it, but, well, there's stuff I don't want to hear all that often (though no Italian groove instrumentals came up above, and the two Dutch tracks and the Creation track are keepers in any case). I cut 150 songs out a few days ago, and could go deeper if necessary.
There's about 16,100 songs in there at 54 gigs. The rule is no going above 60 gigs, so if there's good stuff to add, mediocre stuff has to go. The point is to have an iTunes of all stuff that would be good and interesting to listen to completely on shuffle. And I'll start cutting into the Zappa, Residents, and Elvis Costello for Berit's sake (though the Beefheart stays; there isn't really very much of it).
