Busy weekend. Friday I went with Dane down to Three J's Sportscards in Anaheim for Friday Night Magic. My life pretty much revolved around Magic cards from 1998 - 2001, and I got hit by a few waves of nostalgia hanging out with a bunch of sweaty dudes getting off on flipping cardboard at eachother. We also discovered a Taqueria next door with killer food and watered down horchata. Dane and I realized it's much cheaper and time efficient to go on eBay, buy playsets of commons and uncommons, make decks that are fun in multiplayer and not worry about constructed. The last Friday of every month is a draft at Three J's, so we didn't have to worry about 14 year olds beating us with our own cards. I placed 5th going 3-2 and Dane got...8th or 9th with the same record. We ended up playing first round. I won.
I probably would have gone to the Conflux prerelease Saturday or Sunday but Skamikaze was coming over Saturday to finish vocals and Steven Shafer was scheduled to come by Sunday before the Super Bowl.
He manages to always look dangerous in photographic mediums. I had an "interesting" conversation with him earlier in the week where I realized that he would need to borrow a guitar, an amp, a bass, have me program drums, and pull up piano and organ sounds. I was expecting acoustic tracks like the old Country Rehab days recording Dave sing in a bathroom. After slugging it out with the "It's About Time" demos, I was more than capable of helping Steven out and playing "producer" to find the right sounds for his songs. Steven also enlisted Ian of some band called The Two Thirty and Loren of Nastalja to play tenor sax and trumpet respectively for a track. It looks like Steven already posted the incredibly rough version of the track on his myspace so you can check that out here. Good times, I'm looking forward to continuing to work with him although I have no idea how many more songs he has... I also spoke with Loren briefly about having Nastalja come over for some work as well.
We finished up right before the game started and I headed over to David's (not Country) house to watch the puppy bowl. Bruce Springsteen was "boss" and I ate three sandwiches with matching helpings of pasta salad. I have decided that if the recording thing doesn't take off fast enough that David and I are going to entrepreneur something. I was short on ideas yesterday but today while I was driving (and I get my best ideas while driving) I realized what we're going to do.
We are going to end the loudness war.
So all in all, quite a good weekend. Recorded some fun music, didn't pay attention to a football game, played some Magic, ate some food. This weekend looks busy with two shows and extra hours at work Friday coaching 5th and 6th graders through a guitar performance at a variety show. And somewhere in between I have to mix three bands. With a soft deadline of next week. Yikes.
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