I've moved!!

I decided to move this blog to Tumblr because I much prefer the interface there. The new blog is called The Sound. I can post my works directly to that site so no more linking!! Cya there!!!

Only Heart

So right now at this very moment, I just finished redoing Only Heart, probably my most popular original song to date. I really think it needs more though, in terms of music. It's very empty sounding, being that it only has piano, strings, newly added brief oboe, and vocals. I think I'm aching to hear it get some percussion and just generally everything else a good song usually has. But if you wanna take a listen, I've just posted the song on my Myspace page here.

韓国語で歌います

I recently finished recording a cover of a Korean song called "Never Ending Story", but it' not the same song as the English one with the same title, it just coincidentally has the same name. It's by a Korean rock band,부활 (bu hwal). I remade the music myself so that's why you don't hear guitar in it. I can play some guitar, but not as good as the guy in the original version so I decided to just play his riff with a piano instead. If you wanna see a video of me performing this, go here
My Youtube Page

Mad World

I completed another cover this morning. The song is "Mad World" in the style of Gary Jules. I've been going really slowly with music production, so I must pick up the pace right now. I'm gonna start working on another cover today and keep the ball rolling nonstop from here on out. I also gotta drop a few elbees to take pics for album art. So much to do, and so much time already wasted...

I was messing around with the camera on my DSi and took this pic of myself that I thought looked cool.

すみません

Sorry, if there's anybody out there who reads this blog, I'm sorry for not posting in so long. If I didn't post today, I would have gone all of the month of May without a single post.

As for general updates, I've been out of school for most of the month of May, but haven't gotten nearly as much music done as I should have been. It seems that because I have all this free time, other tasks are appearing and taking all my time. I've been spring cleaning, remodeling, went to another wedding, this and that. So for this whole month, I've only managed to remake All the Music. Although it's not 100% done, I say it like it's done because I'm about 98%. Just gotta put some final touches on it.

Also, I got one of my songs on iTunes about a week or so ago. It's the song Never the Same, for sale as a single for 99 cents. I was hoping I could make a whole album this summer and either send it to a record company or put it on iTunes and promote it myself. So if I can get on the ball with everything then I should still be able to get it done.

Here's a picture of the remodeling I've been doing this summer, I painted this picture on my roommate's wall.

Fall

The title is not Fall because it's the season, it's actually spring right now. The title is Fall because that's the name of the song I'm about to finish remaking. I got all the music done for it yesterday and today I'll probably get a the vocals done provided I find the time. ( I still have tons of homework to do...)
I took a pic a few days ago while riding the bus. It's a pic of an apparent accident, probably by someone who was either drunk, tired, or just angry at this housing edition and crashed into the entrance sign. It's right down the street from where I live. I'm impressed my camera was able to take this pic because I was on a bus moving at least 40 mph. Usually I just turn it on and shoot, but I realized a little while back how important it is to use the special features. Usually things turn out blurry from the slightest bit of movement, but there are settings I can use to compensate for it. For this pic I used a function that is intended for moving objects. Worked out really nicely. :)

Progess

I'm making some progress as of the past few weeks. I've been a little more prolific with my music, and I've done a little better with promotion, and I've gotten some more responses from people who like my work. I've started doing several collaborations all at once, when I had never really done anything at all before.

I really just want to dive right into my music and start making money from it so I can really have a reason to pursue only music. I'm swamped with school at the same time though, so keeping up the music related business is hard to focus on at the same time as maintaining good grades and such at Purdue. But it just so happens that unless I receive a lot of free money from somewhere, I just might be dropping out of college because I can't afford it any longer. But you never know, I wasn't sure if I'd still be in school this semester and here I am.

But as for music, I remade Never the Same over spring break and I hope to remake many others soon too. I also have lots of new songs that are waiting to be completed. I can't wait until I've got enough time to complete all this, it's gonna be grand.

My computer's being a douche bag though, it randomly decided that I wasn't allowed to use my Asian type anymore, just got rid of my language bar. And no matter how many times I restart my computer or reinstall the language packs, it just won't work. I'm currently set to an old 98 windows theme so it's possible that has something to do with it, but if I change it and it still doesn't work, I'll reformat. That's the key to all of life's problems. Just start over. Dust yourself off and try again.

If you're a fan of Utada Hikaru like I am, then you're probably as excited as I am about her finally making some progress in the states. If you don't know who she is, basically she grew up half in NewYork, half Tokyo, and has perfect English and Japanese, and became a famous singer is Japan at 15 yrs old, her first album selling more than any other album in Japanese history. But she's always been super famous in Japan, but not America even though she was born here. But anyway, she's releasing an English album that will be in stores May 12 and is already on iTunes. I like to support her, but I can't really afford to buy the iTunes album when I know I'll be buying the physical copy in stores. I'm a starving college artist.

I took a pic today on the city bus, somebody had stuck a bandaid on the seat next to where I was sitting. I though it was such a stereotypical public bus thing to see I had to take a pic.