Okay, the film is on its way to Sundance, and I guess we’ll see if it gets accepted, and the singer’s demo is finished once I clear up some mid-bass muddiness on one of the songs…. What? You don’t know what I’m talking about?

I’ve been so busy twirling knobs in the studio the last couple months, I’ve barely had time to blink, not to mention the website work that’s been progressing. I have six projects that I’ve had to work on daily, and the mental gear-shifting has been probably the hardest part. I have a different role in each of them, depending on where we are in the timeline: engineer or producer, drummer, art director, designer, code monkey, marketing person. And I feel less competent at each of those roles all the time, since each is a discipline taking years or decades to master. Oh well. Such is the lot of the independent freelancer. I just kinda suck at everything, instead of allowing my full suckiness to flower in one particular area.

So, anyway, my long-time client Doug Luther hired me to record three of his songs for an independent film project. I know next to nothing about the film, but I’m reasonably happy with the results of the music recording. Thanks to Gary Charlson (guitars), Bob Akers (slide guitar), TJ (keyboards), Stephanie Shelton (bass), and Greg Welch (bass), for their help and ideas. Doug has been a pleasure to work with, as always.

I’m also finishing up a demo for a singer named Kristel Reitz; just a couple of cover songs to send to a small label in Houston who wanted to hear her. It was a chance to record my Issues bandmates Cliff Eveland (guitar) and Richard Streeter (bass), and that was fun.

But this post isn’t all about me—it’s also about what I’ve been reading! But no, I’ve decided this is long enough and that should be a new post. Up shortly.