Torched Laughter Studio Diary: Day 45
Saturday started off rough. I don’t know if it’s because of the winter storms, but god damn it was insufferably dry again. Singing anything good took a massive amount of effort. It got extremely frustrating. Like throwing headphones against the wall frustrating. (Thank you Sony, for making durable cans for us divas)
I had to stop.
I took my little humidifier and put it in the vocal booth and left for a couple of hours. The second I went outside I found that I was able to sing with ease. Stupid house. I went to the local pharmacy to see if they had anything that would temporarily alleviate the dryness. What they offered was a saliva replacement spray called `Moistit’ I think. Ok, as a player of Grand Theft Auto Vice City, I couldn’t help but giggle incessantly. Why?
For you gamers out there who played the game, you will remember the parody commercial Salivex on Fever 105. You know the one. It’s the saliva replacement thing so you can eat more and do more….other things. The difference between Moistit and Salivex is that I don’t believe Moistit is filled by saliva philanthropists like Salivex.
Comedy preceeds reality.
Well, I tried the throat spray and the results were middling at best. Faintly mint flavoured spit that barely helped the vocal cords. Lovely. Thankfully the humidifier and several litres of water did what Salivex couldn’t.
The goal was 3 songs. Ended up completing 2 and a half after several hours. My first take on one song called `Finely Tuned Meat’ was perfect. But I forgot to press `record.’ I paid dearly for that misdeed by doing it again for another 90 minutes.
The reason for not completing all 3 was because I, all of sudden, hated the lyrics to the last song I was to sing. (Song #3, tape recorder track 3, acoustic song #3) I hated the topic, I hated the `chorus.’ It was all douchey drek that made my arm hairs stand on end with disgust. All it took was seeing 2 poorly used words to get me bent. I am sure that I was also exhausted and looked for any excuse to stop.
But there are times where I wish I could step back in time and sever my own neck artery when I put a pen to paper. So, I tossed out all the lyrics and have begun again. This is a little bit of a set back because I do have to write words to 2 songs rather than 1. I can only hope a muse is in the immediate vicinity to help me out…
So, we have `Jaw Filled Wreckage,’ `The Tilted Figure’ `Innuktorviit’ and `Finely Tuned Meat’ completed.
`Finely Tuned Meat’ has a great backstory. The next post will cover it in depth.
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