To start off, please forgive me if the delirium of my raging fever has rendered this post incoherent or merely annoying....

So I've been producing and singing on this hip-hop track with rhymes by my friend Lin all week. It's been a great antidote to my whininess about not getting shit done, because I AM, in fact, getting shit done! I've gotten reacquainted with Logic Audio and the whole recording/mixing process, which I had previoulsy decided I hated. And it turns out I'm actually pretty good at it! But it turns out I am also VERY VERY picky.

Especialy when it comes to my own singing, I cannot suffer a bad example to live. I'll do a take over and over and over again and I will still never like it. However, I've come to realize that if I pile a couple of vocals on top of each other, they all start to sound better. Ooh, and it makes me sound like a white D'Angelo. Sweet...

I skipped out on a couple of shows and open mics and what-have-you because apparently the consequences of not resting your sprained ankle enough are inexplicable pains and stiffnesses from your foot all the way up your side, down your arm, and up to the base of your neck two whole weeks later. Bollocks. Throw into the mix the aforementioned delirious fever, and you have a perfect recipe for staying home. It's too bad too - I was supposed to meet a drummer last night that I found on Craigslist, but I got to 125th St. and I had to get off the subway and turn back.

Finally, I discovered The Love Below, the Andre 3000 side of the new Outkast album, which I have been listening to incessantly ever since I discovered mtv.com's free preview. Basically, Andre 3000 is absolutely insane and this album is totally mind-boggling. A couple of years ago, I discovered that my constant quest for new music was rooted in a desire to hear the album that I myself would be making if I could get my shit together. Well, thus far, I think The Love Below wins the prize for closest match. I may even have to write (gasp!) a full review of it once I've actually got a CD-quality copy...