Theory To Time, Minute To Minute
June 20, 2008
Today, tonight, I'm exhausted-- and I spent probably all of two hours on Little, Thing, Round. (It's a round. About little things. ;) )I'm averaging 4 hours a song, but I only took two for this one. Part of taking the extra time is making sure that the vocal take works-- that I sound the way I think I should sound. The less time I spend, the more likely I am to leave in the missed notes that make me cringe. And it's okay, really, because you know what that is? Me making a mistake. And letting myself make a mistake. And not hide under the bed when it happens. So all in all , that's okay.
(For the record, by the way, I skipped last Wednesday, because, well... honestly? I started forgetting what day it was. Oops. I'll make it up with an extra song before the end of June.)
I was talking to my friend Elaine, about the photographs I take, and how she sees a through-line in the pictures I take. She can tell that my photographs are, well, my photographs. Postulating that there was a common language shared in the way I write and in the way I take photos. We meandered onto some other subject, describing something I saw walking around, and I said: "It's hard not to fall in love with everything when you're looking so damn closely." Elaine said to me, "THAT's your signature, Olga. That's your thread, right there. The line criss-crossing everything you're making. That one sentence."
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