making acoustic record, update #2 (or 3, i can’t remember) – there is something really, really nice about playing acoustic guitar and working on music in a canyon while looking at trees and mountains. but this canyon idyll is not without its dangers. to wit: warning: it’s possible that i will become a hippie. well, a hippie minus the long hair. as i don’t have hair. well, to be clear, i don’t have hair on the top of my head where it would be useful. i have hair on my face and it grows like a weed. or weeds.
in any case, i’m here working on an acoustic version of ‘when it’s cold i’d like to die’, and trying to figure out if it should be just acoustic guitar and vocals, whether i should sing on it, whether someone else should sing on it, and/or whether it should have a solo violin or cello or a string quartet or something more orchestral. i like the austerity and vulnerability of keeping it as minimal as possible, but i also really love more elaborate orchestral arrangements. and a hummingbird just flew by my window.
maybe i should go walk around hollywood blvd and look at the tourists and the junkies to counteract my slow descent into hippie-dom. i’m headed back to nyc in a few days, that should knock the hippie out of me for a while. here’s a picture of me with a microphone sticking into my head. you’ll notice there’s a piece of bark nailed to the wall behind me.
-moby