hooked this here portlable computron up to the virtual storage container today in hopes of finally getting all (digital format, anyhow) boolar tracks into this machine. 422 tracks in four years. and those are only the ones that made it into the computer and got saved onto the hard drive. there are no fewer than hundreds of four-track tapes, poorly or not at all labeled, in boxes downstairs, many of which have been re-recorded over in moments of self-pity and hatred. i just bought 100 new 42 minute tapes. and bradley has at least ten cd compilations of instrumentals and songs from before we met/started making music together. what do we do with all of this stuff? i can’t wait for ten or twenty years from now when i get to put together a retrospective best-of compilation. here, try this track, way back from 2003 (don’t miss that vacuum cleaner solo at the end):
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listening to that song again (the first i ever wrote! i think, and maybe the third vocals i’d recorded) makes me laugh with shame cuz it reminds me of the first time we played it for another person. i have to apologize to you, unnamed friend, for thinking i was sassy and whip-smart, but lacking confidence and defensively reacting to your question about my use of the word “acquiescence” (of which i was so proud… effortlessly rhyming: whispered acquiesence/breaks the silence/we’re close to brilliance/or is it only madness). i can’t believe the most creative reaction i could muster was:
look it up, you dumb *expletive*
i still remember the shock and awe on your face, but at least i can laugh about it now…
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