Update of Things
Hello friends,
It has been a while since my last update so I just wanted to touch base and let you know about the things that are going down. During Super Bowl weekend I traveled to visit some friends in Reno. I decided to drive since plane tickets were a bit pricey plus I'm always down for a good road trip. Leaving that Monday my girlfriend and I ran into some serious storms that ended up closing a majority of the highways that would take us home. Only one mountain pass was left open so we decided to take it. To summarize this long story the snow chains broke on my tires and we got stranded on a mountain in the middle of a Blizzard! Thanks to local law enforcement and Cal Trans they saved us from being crushed in an avalanche. After we recovered my truck from the snowy mountain the next day, we had a horrendous 14 hour drive back with a messed up brake line. On top of all that I ended up getting bronchitis and my voice has still not fully recovered from it.
On the bright side a lot of changes for the better have been happening. I recently purchased some new music equipment as I'm currently in the process of working on a new music project. It is in the very early stages but progress is progress. Pictured below is a before and after of my little makeshift studio. On the left is a homemade vocal booth that I have had for almost ten years. I had a hard time parting ways with it as I started my whole voice acting world in that booth. It's where I did all my pro auditions, vocal reels, independent songs and amateur voice work. After so many years the thing was starting to warp and I wanted something that was a little easier to transport. So the vocal shield is what I have now and I also picked up a Shure SM7B.
I had originally planned to finish a new vocal reel last year and that never happened. That is now back on the books. In tradition of buying new music equipment I always like to do a song test recording where I mainly sing a song performed by a female artist....which is also going to happen. I'm pretty much just waiting for my voice to get back to full strength.
In other news my buddy Josh will be visiting San Diego at the end of this month and we plan to record an episode of the podcast. I wish the podcast was more consistent but the schedules of us real humans deems it not so. This year actually marks the 10 year anniversary of the album I made with Villains of Vinyl. My plan right now is hijack my own podcast and turn it into a Villains of Vinyl appreciation thing for many weeks. My goal right now is to play the album and demo tracks almost no one has ever heard. I will talk about the songs and give a little insight into the process of these songs. So I will be straying form the subject matter of the actual podcast but who cares it's my show right?
Last but not least I'm toying with the notion of doing a new podcast that is strictly on this website and will be featured on the Long Walks and Robots blog. It would be a music appreciation podcast where I could intro some songs I have not written and then play them for you. It would be like a mini radio show. I would only be able to have it on this website due to copyright laws. Again this is just an idea I'm tossing around but if you see it pop up on here then I guess you will know it's out. I hope all is well with you dear readers and I'm looking forward to sharing all this new stuff with you this year.
In short I'm glad I did not die on a snowy mountain and my voice should be better soon cause if not what the hell good am I!?