"weekenders"

first thang's first. the b.snatch currently has close to twenty-five original sung tongs under construction. slice and i have come to a conclusion: attempt to put a hault on new material and hone in on the stuff we already have. as alex stated in a previous post, thursday night (i believe) we got 'after it' as the kids say. we practiced some old stuff live and came up with a few new ideas we're happy about. not only that, earlier in the day we finally purchased cubase. we've decided to kick magix to the curb and move up to the minors ('base' certainly isn't the majors, but magix was straight-up grade school...it's time to get serious, we dropped mad money on 'the base' [all of two bills, haha]).

when 'the base' gets here we'll begin to decide which tracks deserve the right to make our first cd-r. as of now i think we'd agree that only a few have truly separated themselves from the pack:

little time (which i posted to the blog awhile ago in accoustic guitar form has now evolved to piano and believed to be one of our stronger tracks...we have a few plans/ideas in terms of which direction we need to go with it but ultimately like where it stands)

singe in a small town (one of only two deframe track's i've recorded since the move to defiance is a song slice enjoys killing over the piano as well...you'll probably see this make the cut when it's all said and done)

alicia (again, a song i posted in the first entry of this blog awhile back)

there are a few other rough tracks (with just as rough names) such as 'tiny dino,' 'all about the idea' and 'sweet honey lullabye' that will most likely end up making the cut, but no song is safe. we have much to work on, or..."much ado about something."

oh, and as for the title of the post...

i was in border town bryan, ohio this evening watching a play in montpelier called 'the lion in winter' with my friend Dawn when she noticed a paper calling for open mic talent at the nearby "little theatre" in bryan. the open mic nights started just recently and will apparently run all the way through the summer through a program called "weekender's." the program calls for poets, singers, jugglers, comics...whoever...from the community each and every saturday. what better place for an opening baldersnatch gig? i can think of none.

i was all about making it start this very saturday, the 21st, but apparently slice will be entertaining youth soccer athletes at a camp he'll be running. still, we soon hope to get our kinks out in front of DOZENS of listeners before attempting the local defiance coffee shops, etc.


i should be writing a paper right now.


much love.







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