80 percent real

Things are moving forward on all album fronts, currently. As I type these awkwardly parsed sentences, my slow little scanner is purring its best through some of the slides that Lindsay took on our first day at Gregory Heights. I've been working on the album art. Had a rush and then a disappointment today when a summer monsoon cleared up just as I got home from work -- perfect light for photographing the bird-glass outside. I run out there, get all set up, click and -- bzzt: no film. Citizen Photo was out of Time Zero for the SX-70 when I was there to drop off the other two rolls of black and white that Lindsay shot, so I've got nothing. Maybe, weather permitting, I'll get another chance tomorrow.

I'm using these slides as, possibly temporary, shots of the three of us for the inside of the booklet. I think we've got more lyrics this time around than last time, even with fewer songs. Maybe I'm wrong, but they still seem to take up an enormous amount of space.

We listened to Jon's first go at mastering Tired Eyes last night and today. We like what he did, but mostly we discovered things we want to go back and tweak in mixing. Its a little annoying to be moving back into a stage of the process that we thought was done, but I'm beginning to be able to imagine how good the thing is going to end up sounding so it seems worth it. Chris is afraid that Jon squashed it too much. This is kind of a weird song to start with because it was the most even recording-wise and dynamically.

Anyway, Photoshop is calling my name so I'm off. . .