Weather and music

The weather over the last three days has been great: very Seattle-like, with soothingly cloudy grey skies. Drizzle on some days, pouring rain here and there, and just over-all grey-ness the rest of the time. Good stuff.

The only annoying thing is that at one point the wind blew hard enough -- the rain was 30 degrees -- sometimes 45 degrees -- off vertical -- to wet the misc. open-topped boxes on the porch. Dangit.


Still going thru my ''suitcases'' of tapes. Information Society (with the ''Pure Energy'' song) on the way in to work, and A Flock of Seagulls on the way home.

Given my fondness for '80s-style new wave-y synth-pop (Human League, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, later-era Devo, Yaz, Kraftwerk, InSoc, Flock of Seagulls...), it's interesting that all of my songs thus far are in the ''guitar-rock'' genre. No sequencers, no MIDI. Most have a drum machine, but that's out of necessity, not stylistic intentions. And no synths -- at least not that carry the weight of the song (on two or three songs I have a synth as a melody instrument -- but it's not a synthy-sounding synth, if that makes sense).

Part of this is because the process of sequencing is too fiddly for me: I'd rather just **play** the darned melody. And partly because the stuff I write requires a certain ''swing'', or ''feel'' -- which is **really** difficult to enter in by hand, step by step.


--GG