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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Trying out Blogger for Word

It’s been raining cats and dogs and horses and pigs… I guess you know what I mean by that!  I think there’s another typhoon coming along so more gloomy days to come.  I wish I could just quietly check in a good hotel and just spend the day sleeping … hey, since it’s just a wish maybe I could get a suite… hehe
We’re almost done with the material for my band but I’ve been kinda sick lately… sort of the flu or maybe because there’s a change in weather today and I always get sick whenever there’s a radical weather change.  I’m trying out this thing that allows me to post from work today.  Maybe I can update my blog promptly this way.  I usually just write or try to remember the significant things that happened in my day and try to post that.  I started blogging mainly as an online journal to remind me of how my days went and how I felt during those days.  Old age can be such a drag!
Haven’t been going to the gym lately because I’ve been sick and it’s been raining as I said earlier… excuses, excuses!
I think I’m destined to be at this size for the rest or my lonely life.
Ho-hum what else is new?
Oh I’ve been watching a couple of seasons of my fave shows…
CSI vegas is on top of my list
The Simpsons
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Prisonbreak
Lost
One can actually get copies of the whole season for these shows and many more.
All I can say is that I try not to buy pirated videos but if someone insists on lending me a copy… well, hehe
Seriously piracy is such a rampant thing going on in Manila.  I mean if the authorities really wanted to catch them all they could just go to one famous place and arrest everyone.. though they might not find a big enough jail to put them all in.
Like how would you jail a whole community?  My opinion on the matter is not to punish the individual retailers of pirated materials … sure maybe have them pay a fine or something, but the ones that really need to punished and stopped is the one who actually manufactures and distributes the copies.  Without these guys who produces pirated copies then there won’t be any retailers trying to survive on the sale of said materials.  Well until something serious is done with it I guess it will remain a viable industry in this country.
What’s that?  It’s an industry already?
But please and I mean please do not buy pirated copies.  Unless someone insists on lending you one?
Woohooo
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--MXRR at 12:42 AM
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Monday, July 17, 2006

AFTER THE RAIN

Bennii played drums last friday and Lonee and I worked on it last saturday editing the drum parts.
Most drummers rarely ever play dead on against a clik track so it takes quite an effort trying to align parts to the right beat without losing that element of being human.
My arrangements was done the usual way on PC then transferred to Pro Tools where the "live" instrument replace the sampled ones.
Bennii is back on Magic 89.9 again on the six AM slot so if you want to hear him blabber away so early in the morning just tune in. I will probably never hear him since im snoring happilly away at that time of day. Hey! I'm a night person.
We even have a song where Bennii duplicated parts to make him sound as if he was playing in a snare group in drumline!
I'm really so happy with the way this project band is turning up. The songwriting is fun and the arrangements are challenging. Not to mention the fact that i'm working with my friends is truly something that cannot be bought.
I hope somebody likes our songs.
Happiness is BLiSS

--MXRR at 2:45 AM
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

RAIN RAIN...

It rained today... hate the rain... perhaps because of too many bad memories associated with it... anyways we're having a lull in studio work after just finishing the Cris Cayzer album... of which i arranged most of the songs... most being like five songs and one song done by Jimmy A. I hear Jonathan and I are sharing production credits on this album and that Cris has a radio program on JAM 88.3 so if you want to hear my work just be sure to tune in to his program.
Recording for my band has been moved to saturday since Bennii has too many previous commitments. He did promise to play like 4 or 5 songs on friday. I actually managed to write a song for this band. One of the rare times i get inspired enough to actually compose original music or maybe it's because i've been doing so many arrangements lately ... one of which is going to be a theme song ( again ) of a major show on ABS. Hope that one gets approved.
I'm seriously considering purchasing a new pedalboard... Most guitar effect pedalboards are for use in live gigs. So i'm choosing carefully since i want a pedalboard that i could use both in the studio and probably in a live situation... if ever i get to play live.
:-)

--MXRR at 10:49 PM
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Thursday, July 06, 2006

AND NOW IT BEGINS

Today i've officially started recording for my new band... finally after years of being out of the band scene ive decided to form a new band which will probably be my last band since i'm no spring chicken... i love the material plus i'm having fun doing arrangements and producing our new songs... they will be rock oriented but with orchestral arrangements done by Paolo Z who will be with us as our keyboard player... Line up is Alexie Corbilla on Electric Bass guitar, Paolo Zarate on keyboards, Benni Obana on drums and myself on guitars.
I totally missed working with a group on writing songs to doing arrangements as i've been doing most of my arrangemenst solo.
I hope i can live up to the challenge of being a guitar player in a rock band... after all i did start out my musical career that way.
more of the progress of my band in the days to come.
Happiness is BLiSS
:-)

--MXRR at 3:13 AM
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