http://shawnogram.com/2009/02/08/rpm-challenge-week-one/ Audio, video and blogging from San Luis Obispo, CA Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://shawnogram.com/2009/02/08/rpm-challenge-week-one/comment-page-1/#comment-927 Wesley Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:27:30 +0000 http://shawnogram.com/?p=208#comment-927 Shawn, I'm sure you can work your way around this, and personally I think two songs nearly finished in only nine days (think about it; that's just more than a week) is definitely an accomplishment. I imagine most artists take at least a few weeks with a song after it's written so I think you're being way too hard on yourself to consider recording TWO songs in 9 days (nearly finished) a failure by any means. Something you said in this post really resonated with me. I completely understand the thing about not wanting to call a song (or an album, or any project) complete until it's just right. I too am a perfectionist and I'm always reluctant to call a project finished because I'm worried that I'll want to change something later. I've found that this reluctance has even made me hesitate in starting a project, because I know I won't be able to be finished with it until everything is completely perfect - and the problem with that is, it's never finished, so I end up with the mindset that any project I start is going to be stuck with me for a LONG time. By the way, I completely agree about the Death to Autoplay thing (from your headline on the MySpace page); what I don't think many MySpace users realize is that most people, myself included, don't browse linearly. We open new tabs, switch between them, close them, branch out, new windows; it's organized chaos! There is nothing more annoying (well, there is, but it's still annoying regardless) than stumbling upon a video you want to watch and turning up the sound on your computer to find that about ten different pages are all playing music/sound of some sort. Then of course you can never tell which page the noise is coming from, so you end up having to close them all. And then it's nearly impossible to find them again when you need them. I really hate that. I definitely wish there were a setting on Mozilla to not allow pages to play sounds without your permission, although I'm sure if that were possible it would already be doing that. By the way, your duet on there with Jen sounds great. It's spectacular. I can't wait to hear your finished album! Good luck! I don't completely understand how the contest works but I'm sure you'll do wonderfully. Shawn, I’m sure you can work your way around this, and personally I think two songs nearly finished in only nine days (think about it; that’s just more than a week) is definitely an accomplishment. I imagine most artists take at least a few weeks with a song after it’s written so I think you’re being way too hard on yourself to consider recording TWO songs in 9 days (nearly finished) a failure by any means. Something you said in this post really resonated with me. I completely understand the thing about not wanting to call a song (or an album, or any project) complete until it’s just right. I too am a perfectionist and I’m always reluctant to call a project finished because I’m worried that I’ll want to change something later. I’ve found that this reluctance has even made me hesitate in starting a project, because I know I won’t be able to be finished with it until everything is completely perfect – and the problem with that is, it’s never finished, so I end up with the mindset that any project I start is going to be stuck with me for a LONG time. By the way, I completely agree about the Death to Autoplay thing (from your headline on the MySpace page); what I don’t think many MySpace users realize is that most people, myself included, don’t browse linearly. We open new tabs, switch between them, close them, branch out, new windows; it’s organized chaos! There is nothing more annoying (well, there is, but it’s still annoying regardless) than stumbling upon a video you want to watch and turning up the sound on your computer to find that about ten different pages are all playing music/sound of some sort. Then of course you can never tell which page the noise is coming from, so you end up having to close them all. And then it’s nearly impossible to find them again when you need them. I really hate that. I definitely wish there were a setting on Mozilla to not allow pages to play sounds without your permission, although I’m sure if that were possible it would already be doing that. By the way, your duet on there with Jen sounds great. It’s spectacular. I can’t wait to hear your finished album! Good luck! I don’t completely understand how the contest works but I’m sure you’ll do wonderfully.

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