Awake since 2am, a sleepless night of burning energy and excitement. My target of a video each weekday is stressful and at times feels silly, yet, it has pushed me to create three music lyric videos today, and on each one I learned something. Progress can only be made by pushing to do things we don't want to do... there's a sort of entropy that dies off if we try only to do the things we like... generally I find the only beneficial things are the things I don't really feel like doing, so discipline with self-targets is vital.
I've also worked on some new album art, this was time consuming too; not so much the Photoshopping, but the photography, as it involved three lights, a smoke machine and, well setting up everything. I like this cover a lot more, it feels different and more edgy than my other covers so far. It does have echoes of Cycles & Shadows, with the red lightning.
I've spent the last 90 minute tediously recording about 70 guitar chords for The Arm, but, having tried them in the song, it doesn't sound as good as the original. Tomorrow I will record a few individual notes instead. I'm not skilled enough to finger-pick it live, like I ideally should.
