A power day of attacking the videos for The Dusty Mirror. These are so much work, and I can't help but add little things at every step to push myself, thinking that these tiny touches only add 1 or 2 percent to the work time. This is making everything take weeks. I must keep charging.
One other job was to decide on a release plan. My plan now is to release 'Fear Of The Thing Itself' as a single and video. This is partly because the video is complete and it reasonably good looking. As a single it is not catchy or in any way like a pop hit - but this too can have merits, it may stand out. the charts are littered with songs which are not catchy or instantly appealing which have become hits; and besides the odds of me ever having a pop hit are so minuscule that I need not worry about trying; my concern should be artistry.
For this single release I've decided to add a B-side, a lovely excuse to add new music, but this is of course work too, driven by childlike enthusiasm. I found an old instrumental tune called 'The Johann Strauss Blues', from 2004. It sounds like a drunken orchestra playing an out-of-tune and out-of-time waltz. I've not used it for anything, so today played about with it and added some words:
I'm so lonely
waltzing on my own
Won't you come and
see me in my home
Madelaine?
Oh Madelaine!
Won't you come and see your lonely Johann?
See me waltzing
Waltzing around the room
I'm so lonely
waltzing on my own
Won't you come and
join me
Madelaine?
I used the new Rode NT1. It sounded rather hissy and cold. My old NT3 sounded much nicer somehow, but of course my ears are very used to the NT3, and the mix, rather than the mic, may have been the problem.
For much of the day I've worked on videos. I added some red eyes to 'Moments Of Terror', trying two methods; one animated, one with actual film clips. The latter didn't quite work because the clip is too short. The animated looked stranger, a little jerky, but better overall. Perhaps better due to strangeness.
Other videos completed in a first draft (with lyrics) today included 'Falling Apart Again', and 'Two Parents Of A Child'. These were largely done, but lacked lyrics.
I'll not do more on most of them, so the work is now finalising those, and adding the lyrics. Two videos which do need creating are 'Norman Bates' and 'The Arm'.
