There's nothing like a self-imposed writing deadline to make a weekend seem really, really short. Especially since it means I now have only three weeks in which to write 50,000 words. Sigh.
So what in the heck was I doing with my precious writing time? Well, writing song lyrics. I swear, it's like pulling teeth. On Saturday morning, I listened about a bajillion times to the two songs I'd promised I'd have ready for Saturday evening's practice. The first one started to develop some depressing lyrics about friends of ours who died. I tried to force the song to be about something else, but it wasn't happening so I went ahead and finished it.
That left me with one more song to do. After I played it over and over, I saw how it could be about an auto race, except that it had an instrumental intro that didn't fit in with that theme at all. I went ahead and wrote the car race lyrics (I even did some research!).
The band liked both songs and we're dropping the out-of-place intro to the racing song. I told them we could use the intro when we do the long-form version of the video for MTV, but that it doesn't make sense otherwise. (If you're new to this blog, that was a joke.)
Practice lasted hours. We watched the DVD from our October 22nd party. We ran through all our songs and worked on trouble spots. We went out for barbecue, watched a couple hours of VH1 Classic Metal Mania, and mocked or praised the bands as needed. We also tried really hard to think of a good band name, but we're still drawing a blank on that.
So what was my excuse today on Sunday (you caught me post-dating)? Pure laziness. I slept in, watched football, goofed around online, recorded some vocal tracks over instrumental versions of the new songs and basically enjoyed a beautiful, fall day.
It is possible for me to catch up on the novel? Maybe. Once I get going, I can spew out an awful lot of verbiage. (See http://averagejane.blogs.com, February 2004 to present.) Tonight is free and clear...as long as I don't get distracted.
Band names:
Monkey POX
Sonci Death Monkey (from High Fidelity)
Posted by: Huts | November 07, 2005 at 08:29 AM
Sunday is MEANT for laziness - the Lord sayeth so. :-)
Besides, the game yesterday was GOOD. X and I could not believe that Vermeil made a run for it in those last 5 seconds. Muchos Cahones - I was impressed.
Posted by: cagey | November 07, 2005 at 11:21 AM
AJ-if you've looked at my table, you'll see that I'm a binge writer. You'll be fine!
Posted by: Stacie | November 07, 2005 at 07:10 PM
I didn't realize the majority of commenters (2) were from KC. I grew up there and apparently Cagey watches the chiefs. I also think I know what general city AJ lives.
Posted by: Huts | November 08, 2005 at 08:00 AM
Huts - What are you trying to do, give away all my secrets! ;)
Posted by: Jane | November 08, 2005 at 08:12 AM
Yea, I'm sleuthy like that!
Posted by: Huts | November 08, 2005 at 03:02 PM