gross isn't it?

so i wasted a perfectly good bowl of soup, a keyboard, and had to run around hungry for the rest of the afternoon..

but here's why they call me mr sunshine around here:  at least i can tell myself i've saved a spoon..

btw, if you haven't seen preety boy D'in eat before you're in for an eye-opener..

205 unanswered email messages

30 hours of standing (okay not exactly just standing)

15 miles traveled on foot

7 big bowls of ramen noodles

3 gallons of Pocari

1 blood stained shirt......

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What would be your choices?

Lately all my friends have been asking, what exactly do you do when you say you're a producer?

Apparently that means many many different things to different people.

To the middle aged guy who grew up listening to old school cantopop - producer is the dude who picked popular Japanese pop songs for the 四大天王s.  He's the ultimate middle man.

To the dance DJS - producer is the guy who actually knows some music theories and makes the records that they spin.

To most of my friends - producer is the guy who sits behind the mixing desk and nods when he approves.  He's that fat dude who needs a haircut badly but curiously gets to chill with the band and sit in the back of the limousine.

To many indie musicians - producer is the same guy who happens to own the studio, sit behind the mixing desk, nod in approval, and tell the mixing desk guy what to do.

To me - producer is the guy who makes conscious decisions.  The guy who really pays attention, who has an independent strategic vision for the project, and who's job, when done properly, leaves nothing in the process to chance.

The producer is more than just the guy who knows something about mixing.  Musicians have a tendency to play what they feel like, play as much as they feel like, and play in ways that they damn well feel like.  The producer provides the opportunity to step away from that self-indulgence, makes concious choices, put things in proper perspectives, and ensure that all is coherent in the end.

Following that logic, a lot of self-produced indie works were therefore NOT even PRODUCED at all. 

Get what I'm saying?

Been meeting more and more guitar players here on AnD.  Thought it'd be fun to share some Canto-rock crafted a while back for you to laugh at.

At least D'in will give it a listen...

Patty Ng wrote the lyrics.

So I sucked.  I got sick on the day of the AnD party and couldn't attend.  I hadn't updated my blog for ages.  I haven't even yet sent money to the Sichuan relief efforts (but i will tomorrow, and YOU SHOULD TOO)...  but I've been painstakingly working on a little song, and it goes something like this:

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Do you know what it is I am after

Do you know I wanna take you to a safe place

Do you know all this time you rocked my world

Do you know what it is I am after

Do you know what it means to be precious

Do you know why you are everything  

Do you know what it means to be precious

Do you know what it is

I guess its all because of our laughters

Or something else I just wouldn’t say

There’s so much more to you than I was told

Do you know what it is I am after

Ding ding ding….

Do you know what it means to be precious

Do you know why you are everything  

Do you know what it means to be precious

Do you know what it is

SEND MONEY TO THE CHARITIES!  

SEND MONEY!!