Today I got an email from a woman named "Denise". Denise asks:
is this Bill Preston,if not sorry for the bother
Of course, I'm not Bill Preston. If I were, I'd be too busy traveling through time with my pal Ted "Neo" Logan to be answering confused messages from any lame early-2000's would-be email paramour. Plus I'd be developing my nascent rock stardom.

Come to think of it, that is what I was doing today. I recorded vocals with Kris, using a very expensive condenser microphone we got on loan from a dude named Mike. A while back, I helped Mike get started using Cubase in his recording studio, and he offered use of his three banks of ADATs in payment. I pretty much lost interest in recovering the tracks off the 3 ADAT tapes in my closet, so that never happened. Mike came through with the mike today, though, and a shockmount for it. You want you any microphone to look cool and professional, just jam it in a shockmount! It's that boingy looking suspension device you usually see in the studio with Mariah Carey or the New Boyz 2 N'sync and the like. On close inspection, it looks like I could make one out of hair ties and rubber bands. Oh, and a couple plastic rings off of those "wide mouth" liter bottles of pepsi.

Condenser microphones of that caliber are very sensitive. I've read it in all my production books, but there's nothing like non-book learning to bring a point home. Example, we recorded Kris' vocal parts with both of us in the same room, about 15' apart, and I had to stand up and hold still because the mike could pick up my arms rustling against my sides. Then I was setting up another set of takes, headphones on, and found myself immersed in the wet smacking sounds of Kris' mouth amplified thousands of times. Yuck.

sounds like stirring a bowl of mac and cheese

Oh boy, new email. This one's from Nancy. I like nancy. Nancy says:
Wanna see incredible nude photos and shocking sex videos of todays hottest young celebs?
Hunh. That's doesn't sound like any nancy I know. Oh, this one was sent through starmediahouse.com. I'm guessing they give away free email accounts to any old spammer who asks for one. Go to their webpage and a couple of big windows open without you asking, and one of them, of course, is selling X-10 wireless cameras, in spanish. Woops, that was "starmedia.com", not starmediahouse. Oops. They don't have a webpage. Anyway, X-10 cams - I heard (from a friend of a friend, natch) that some guy did a (surveillance) bug sweep of the UW women's dorm and found dozens of those little guys. I'm not surprised. The ads feature sex-object women and suggestions to put an X-10 in the "bedroom...". Hey! Lets all appeal to peoples' ugly side! Oh right, speaking of.

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