Got up. Decided to not go on a bike ride since it was supposed to be nice in the afternoon. Lay around for a bit and then did my taxes. Way overpaid state taxes, time to adjust my withholding down. Was near perfect on federal taxes (at least pre-credits but those are harder to predict). Then went on a bike ride, since the storm hadn't started yet. Got a distance, felt some drops and that spooked me so I decided to not do the loop I was planning. On my way back though, the storm didn't actually start so I took another turn and ended up at an asian grocery store, where I got pho and looked for ingredients. Then I went to another store and found more of what I was looking for. Came home and was lazy. Played some vidya. Went downstairs and started going through old files. Was making sure my music was backed up and got all my currently produced Fishing for Birds songs published lossless as well (so I can put them on bandcamp; this will be impossible for Dead Ponies in the Rain since I've lost a lot of the old masters, so I guess I'll be horrible and convert mp3s to lossless).
While doing that I found unfinished songs for both Šyþed Pyklez and Ghelded Kultz. I completely forgot that I had an anti-PETA song planned for Fishing for Birds at some point. Well that doesn't really fit with what I've been going with but I might take the break and use it for the DnB song I'm planning for Doctrines of Annihilation. I also listened to Days of the Week. It is like 90% done, it really just needs samples and then mixing. Apparently I've been working on it since 2011 so it'll have been 12 years and 2 albums between conception and publication. I forgot just how long and slow it is. Like it's supposed to be monotonous since the song is about ennui tearing down the band, but doing a 3/4 techno song at 78 bpm is almost a crime. Deliciously Šyþed Pyklez. I also decided that Doctrines of Annihilation should probably be 9 songs long. It's got a bit of a chiasmatic structure and I have 7 songs planned so far. However, as it stands right now, the fast section of Days of the Week will go immediately into the aforementioned DnB song (which also has slow sections) which means the musical variety on the first half of the album is a bit lacking. So a rock/emo/punk song of some sort to balance out that half would be good. Then I'll put an electronic song between Fear and Trembling in San Dimas (very much a rock song, maybe even a dad rock song) and Hobo Tracks (inspired by Don, Aman so a slow, distorted and driving rock song) to add symmetry and also diversity. No idea what themes those songs will cover though. Maybe the 3rd one will be about anger and so the 7th one will be about finding peace in a storm or something.
I also looked at some old photos and realized I have a lot of banger bird photos from South Africa and Ethiopia to upload (plus a couple from Indonesia). Thought I had already done that but apparently not. So that's a longer term project but one that I'll get around to eventually. Did my diaries and now I'm going to bed.
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