First, I'd like to say something about the last entry. I'm not retracting anything and I meant everything that I said... but, perhaps I'm taking it a bit too personally. When I wrote it, I felt as though the government had made an attack against me, as an individual (not as an individual among many, just as me). While I don't take back anything I wrote, I will say that, perhaps, I'm not seeing SOPA's place in the grand scheme. There was life before computers and the internet. Composers and other people managed to get along just fine for centuries before the internet. If the grim predictions everyone's making about SOPA come true, then we'll just have to go back to 20th-century ways of doing business -- frankly, I would prefer to get my music from a record shop again. Anyway, the point is that, whether it gets passed or not, it isn't a big deal. I'm not going to say any more about it here -- if you have questions, you can ask.
Right. Moving onwardly...
You may or may not be aware of a band called "Devo". They've been around since 1973 and they released their ninth studio album, called Something for Everybody, in 2010. Sure, they're from a bit before my time (okay, more than a decade and a half before my time), but these are some of the most underrated musicians in the history of music! If you get the chance, you ought to look them up on YouTube.
Anyway, I've recently made an attempt to arrange some of their work for string orchestra... however, the way I was going about it (essentially transcribing their music and slightly re-arranging it in my own style) was making me able to play some of the songs myself. And, since I can carry a tune rather well, I thought it might be an interesting idea to form a Devo cover band. I've written an original song for it in their style already and am working on a second. It's still very much in the planning stage, this idea, but I'll put up an example of the sort of thing we would do on my YouTube channel soon.
So again, the last last thing I'll ever say about last entry here:
Be stiff, spuds. Remember to take time out for fun and don't get stuck in a loop again.
