Corny and cheesy and jovial

Sitting down to do a final listen through of the new album mixes before sending them off to mastering and the room is glittering. Three fat flies are bumping into the window, the curtain, my forehead. Two apples in the dish are all brown and gross looking, remember to throw those away after this. I installed a grammar/spell correction extensions on my laptop and every single sentence is red underlined, SHUT up! I've got these white curtains my mom bought for me when I first moved here, they're all puffed up by the wind like pregnant ladies. They're dancing with the flies to this song. Yesterday I edited a field recording piece for a sonic geographies class and now I keep hearing dog barks in the snare hits. I'm doing interpretative dances to this song, I closed the door so my roommates can't see. Should I choreograph a tik tok dance? Should I hire someone to choreograph a tik tok dance? Or take a cool selfie video to the song? Know what I mean? That lowkey social media marketing...

One of the songs on this album is something Nina and I wrote a year ago when I was living in Berlin. She sent me a voice memo of her playing guitar & I recorded some keys and miscellaneous sounds on iphone garage band (shoutout the apple wired headphones mic). The birds outside of my apartment were freakishly loud, so in the demo you can hear them screeching in the background. Nina re recorded the guitar on that song in our producer Austin's backyard and again, the birds could not be tamed. Bird synchronicity across time and space. Some whistling I did on that demo (I was trying to communicate with the birds to please tone it down) along with some sounds I programmed & recorded with my microkorg made it onto the final mix. Feels special to hear those now, a year later, in my Berkeley room with less obnoxious birds and with a new chalk talk album on the horizon.

I'm looking at fabrics stuffed at the back of my dresser to make a puppet for a music video idea Fia had. Anyone good at making puppets? Anyone have a cool puppet to donate? I'd like to run a children's puppet theater, or make money writing children's fables, or make livable money as a musician. 

Listening to Katie singing on the album makes me want to zipline to new york and give her a big hug and jump up and down saying yay yay yay thank you I wanaaa hold u like water in my handss!! I love being in a band with my best friends. It's so crazy to have known and played music with these people since sophmore year of highschool. I think they're all so cool. 

Ok enough blabbering, can't wait to release this album yipeeeeeeeeeeee