Below are the 8 most recent journal entries recorded in milacerda's LiveJournal:

Thursday, May 26th, 2005
4:54 pm	Great day today So basically we got started on the vocals to Communist walls, which is the epic final song of the album. I love this song. i actually got goosebumps from singing it today which is what I want to do. I want to give people chills. hehe, well not always, I also just want to do everything i dunno. haha this song requires alot of work because it has lead vocals and instrumental vocals. So kept having to do all kinds of different things. I sang my highest note today that I've ever recorded. which is an A#. I have hit higher notes before but this is the highest I've ever attempted to sing in one of my songs. I was happy about that. the song is sounding great. It is really all over the place with calm parts and sudden bursts of energy. very powerful though. I think I've said before it is my favorite song. I am so happy I wrote it. anyway, I am almost at the half way point. Tommorow I am going in to Karl's to do some production on the songs. basically what that means, is we're taking the skeletons of the songs and beefing them up with extra instrumentation and/ or different parts alltogether. So should be good. it is kind of tedious to do stuff like that, but very necessary. anyway I am excited, should good times. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
1:25 pm	stagnation When I record and there is prolonged period of no recording, I always get this irrational panic. I feel like it is the end of the world because no work is getting done. Anyway that's how I've been feeling the past few days, Karl and I finished the skeletons of all the songs. I need to finish vocals for most of the songs, I need to do the classical guitar tracks, I need to get steve/karl to do electric guitars for some of the songs. I need to get some peoples to do the screaming tracks for the screaming song. and some possible live drums for some of the tracks. so there's still a lot to do. I am hoping to get vocals done as quickly as possible. I am going to set the deadline of my birthday for being done. Hopefully that'll happen. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
6:08 pm	I've got the Neptunes Producing my record well not really but on some of the songs it really does sound like it. the songs aren't even near complete yet but they are sounding fantastic. I finished up communist walls and (breadth requirement III: vanity) today. They are both sounding amazing. so this is how things are taking shape: 1. Before (floored): This one sounds a cross between my own sort of slurry style with gregorian chants (mostly vocals, and a bongo drum beat) 2. After (figrment) Catchy, hooky interesting harmonies and stuff, the vocals are almost done to this one, and we're going to put some electric guitar to it. 3. Breadth requirement part 1: surfing day massacre: this one is a faster paced song that is really weird and etherial for most of it, and at the end it goes into a pop beat and has a really catchy hook the ending is sort of head automatica meets postal service. karl really helped me fix up the beat to this one, the beat now does the song justice. 4, Breadth Requirement part 2: Old Blue eyes: its dark but dancy, a little bit the cure-ish for most of it. dark mood but upbeat. 5. Breadth requirement part 3: Vanity: really downtempo, moody song, I structured this song a little differently than it was originally conceived. It is alot better now, it has a sort of hip hopish beat, I also sped it up a bit and gave it a bit more of a swagger. 6. Lump in your throat: This is another catchier song, but weird at the same time, the music was written by steve and Karl. I wrote the vocals and Lyrics to it. it is hard hitting at times, but still very down tempo. 7. Personified Acrobatics (firewater): this song is completely different now, it didn't have a beat before, now it does and it is a more hip hopish beat. also this song was mostly a capella before, and I just took all the parts and made them instrumental instead and it works alot better, the song is way more interesting now. whereas before it dragged. 8. Breakfast and Breakdancing: this is another one of the catchier songs, it has a killer beat, and a chorus, styalistically its got a very pushed delivery vocally so it sounds sort of head automaticaish(in terms of delivery not in style), 9. Shallow Halls: this is going to be the weird insane song on the album that really makes no sense, it starts out with drums, just playing a plain sort of boring beat, then the screaming comes in and the drums start builind into jazzy chaos as the screams also ascend into chaos it is going to be an intense song, (live drums, people screaming in an organized fashion, keyboard, possibly some strings, and some vocal layers over top) 10. Communist walls: this is the real epic last song, it has no chorus only different movements, it is one of those really powerful memorable songs, that you expect to finish off an album it is my personal fav song because it has a got a really good feel to it. that's the break down. things are seeming good. I am glad to be done the skeletons of the songs, it was really tedious putting them together. there's still alot of work ahead, We've got to beef up these songs now. also I've got to put vocals to over half of them. but that shouldn't be too hard. I'll be done fairly soon. I can't wait to be done and get back to playing shows again. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 19th, 2005
3:59 pm	Recording today I started a new song, Literally. It is completely new. the instrumentals are written by Steve and Karl and The vocal part and lyrics are written by me. It is the only song on the record that isn't written by me alone. Which is cool, it gives the song a fresh perspective. The song has a good hard hitting feel vocally. As of now it is only strings a bassline and drums, but it will have some electric guitars. I really like the way my vocals sound on it. it was weird; today started off kind of rough because I had a lot of phlem for some reason, it cleared up but it wasn't going as easily as I would have liked it to. Still it was a productive day. felt good. i think I may have hurt my voice a bit, so i am going to take it a easy a little. tommorow Karl and I working on programming stuff. so it'll sound all neat and pretty. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
10:48 am	I believe in yesterday yesterday's day can only be described in the form of a list: 1. My brother came back from new york and brought me back the teamsleep album a day early. 2. the teamsleep album is fan-fucking-tastic. I love it. 3. I decided to go to recording to get some more work done, and we figured out why I kept messing up on the last song, I had to keep recording separate parts and I had no basis of comparison so I was always like exactly a quarter note off, so we decided we were going to program some of the parts first so that I have something to sing to. The other song I have is also just vocals but it is simpler because it is just one part that is repeated. 4. so we got working on a new song: we worked on the song called After,(Figment) and it souinds great, it is almost done and I sing some really high notes in it that I really had trouble with last year, but are coming so easily now. I am really happy and excited. 5. I found out from Steve and Paco (nice guy who is in a band steve manages and also helps steve record)that yet another sidford song was saved from last year when the hard drive crashed, ironically enough I was just telling catherine the other day that it was the one song I wish was saved. it is probably one of my favorite songs. it was great to hear it and it is great to have it, the ending cuts off a bit but it sounds somewhat intentional. bottom line: I am happy that I have it. 6. I rushed from recording to my night class at good ol' u of t, not knowing what to expect really, the class is a fourth year seminar on that canadian author Onataaje. he wrote the English patient, but we're not reading it. apparantly he's a brilliant postmodern writer. Who knew? I didn't, I took the course on a whim. Prof seems great and the material seems really engaging. so I look forward to it. 7. I came home tired as fuck, my whole body aches expecially my neck. Its from this shovling and digging I did with nick the day before yesterday for a friend of his. We got paid $10 and hour for 10 hours, but honestly it wasn't worth it, I am such pain now. I am not really used to harsh non-stop physical labour. the palms of my hands are actually bruised. literally. sucks. my neck is still killing me, I hope it goes away soon. 8. I called catherine and since I was dead tired, not really up to doing anything spectacular, I wanted to see if she wanted to come over and watch orgazmo with my brother and I. She came we watched and enjoyed. it is such an amazing movie. just so hilarious. anyway that was my day yesterday. We'll see how this one goes, i might get to go record again hopefully I'll be done another song, at least vocally. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 13th, 2005
3:15 pm	Short day at recording So yeah basically I wanted Sam to record some percussion for one of the tracks, I also wanted to get him to sing on one of tracks but we didn't get around to that today. We got the percussion done and it sounds sweet, that's all we really got around to because steve had to record another project he is working on. Tommorow Karl and I are working on beats and skeletons of songs. Getting down the strings sounds and stuff like that. so it should be good, i am looking forward to it, Meanwhile I'm on these antibiotics that have a weird metallic taste, And the pharmacist told me that for some reason when people take this Biaxin (which is what the anti biotic is called) they get strange dreams. and I really have been having weird fucked up dreams lately. Also I've been having a lot of pretty strange and vivid waking dreams when I am going to sleep. Anyway I am going to see some kung fu movie tonight with sam and catherine so that should be awesome; (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
7:57 pm	bad day in recording I have an inner ear infection, which sucks, I am getting over being sick so it is making things a bit difficult. anyway despite this I got quite a bit of work done, I was having trouble with my pitch, I was flat a lot. which sucked. I felt pretty shitty. anyway I almost got personified acrobatics done despite the set backs. I am going back in on friday. Hopefully with sam. anyway that's all for today. I am going to get some rest. and then maybe some hummous and pita. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
11:21 pm	Recording today was good Hey, So I continued recording today, and it went well. Basically Karl (the guy who's helping me with the programming on the album) and I worked on skeletons of songs, melodic structues of string parts, how many bars certain things repeat and beats. They're all in their simplistic forms right now but they will get more complex as we go on. I've already finished a song called Before (floored) formerly titled "the floor of my car" or "the day the floor of my car caved in". 1. Before (floored): Done ( sam the drummer in my band is doing some percussion on friday) 2. After (figrment): Karl and I worked out the beat and the melodic structure. for this one today 3. Breadth Requirement part II: Old Blue eyes: Karl and I started this one today, we worked out a simple version of the beat and started working on the melodic structure. 4. Breakfast and Breakdancing: Karl and I worked out the beat and melodic structure to this one today. 5. Untitled (this is the screaming choir song, it is untitled as of yet, but I am accepting names if people want to offer name ideas, I will use the idea I like the most): Two of my buddy screamers came by today and screamed to this one, I really wore them out by the end, They did the choatic ending bit, where it speeds up and all hell breaks loose. sounded awesome. that's the breakdown of today tommorow, I go in and do the song personified acrobatics: it is mostly vocals, I will probably get the instrumental vocals done and the main vocals started. Thursday, I may start doing some main vocals, and friday, I am working with Karl again on song structures and beats, then on saturday karl and I are taking a day to finish the skeletons of the songs, and to start beefing things up adding layers and doing interesting things with the beats. so things are looking good. here's a break down of the tracklist and what the songs sound like: 1. Before (floored): This one sounds a cross between my own sort of slurry style with gregorian chants (mostly vocals, and a bongo drum beat) 2. After (figrment) This one's one of the rare songs that actually has a chorus, its sort of epic and memorable (strings and programmed drums) 3. Breadth requirement part 1: surfing day massacre: this one is a faster paced song that is really weird and etherial for most of it, and at the end it goes into a pop beat and has a really catchy hook. The ending is sort of head automatica meets postal service (classical guitar, electric guitar, possibly bouzuki, prgrammed drums, and live drums, strings and vocal layers) 4, Breadth Requirement part 2: Old Blue eyes: two words, hand claps, this song is made up of them, it's dark but dancy, a little bit the cure-ish for most of it key word dark mood but upbeat. (Programmed beats, vocal layers, strings, some piano, maybe some guitar) 5. Breadth requirement part 3: Vanity: really down tempo, moody song, sort of teamsleepish (classical guitar, vocal layers, piano, strings, programmed beats,) 6. Mask of Tommorow: another epic anthem, there are very little actual lyrics to this song its mostly wailing on my part, its mostly melodic vocalizations, with a few words here and there. its cool. it sounds a bit like a classical minor spanish chord feel. but with piano instead of guitar (piano, strings, vocal layers, programmed beats and live drums also possibly accordian and melodica) 7. Personified Acrobatics (firewater): another mostly vocal song, this song is kind of weird, it is sort of bjorky, In a way, but more just an "ethteral, kind of spacey-out-there" sound of my own, (vocal layers, strings, Possibly a beat not certain yet if I will be doing one). 8. Breakfast and Breakdancing: this is another one of the catchier songs, it has a killer beat, and a chorus. it has got a very pushed delivery vocally so it sounds sort of head automaticaish (in terms of delivery not in style), (prgrammed beats, strings, classical guitar vocals layers, and possibly some other stuff) 9. Untitled: this is going to be the weird, insane, black sheep song on the album that really makes no sense, it starts out with drums, just playing a plain sort of boring beat, then the screams comes in and the drums start building into jazzy chaos as the screams also ascend into chaos it is going to be an intense song, (live drums, people screaming in an semi-organized fashion, keyboard, possibly some strings, and some vocal layers over top) 10. Communist walls: this is the real epic last song, it is comprised of different musical movements, it is one of those really powerful memorable songs, that you expect to finish off an album. and it is my personal fav song because it has a got a really good emotional feel to it. Plus it has a lot of dynamics vocally which I really like. (it has classical guitar strings, piano, vocal layers, and probably some additional programming). (Comment on this)