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Looks Like We Made It
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| (Friday, 29 February 2008) Written by Michelle Moon
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| We meaning "me," and "it" being a CD of recorded material. Good Lord, there's nothing like a deadline - I wrote two of these today (based on melodies I worked out earlier). If I could sustain that kind of output...well, I'd be some sort of early J... (378 more chars) |
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I Think I Can
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| (Thursday, 28 February 2008) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Ill admit I haven't been living and breathing RPM the last few weeks. I've certainly been working on melodies and song ideas, but the number of work sessions I've put in has been...well, few. Now that time is short I've been working harder. I just ha... (325 more chars) |
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Radical Departure
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| (Monday, 18 February 2008) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Ok, maybe not radical, but significant. After spending several days writing melodies, the concept taking shape in my mind has really broadened from the Huck Finn point of inspiration to a general water theme. I've got my melodies and guitar lines mo... (548 more chars) |
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Getting Started
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| (Monday, 04 February 2008) Written by Michelle Moon
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After polishing the house to a high sheen, I ran out of other tasks and got down to starting songwriting yesterday. For the past two years, I've found it really useful to choose a structure or theme for... (5474 more chars) |
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Thanks, RPM!
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| (Sunday, 03 February 2008) Written by Michelle Moon
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| I used to have trouble finding time for bothersome chores like dusting, sorting files, and re-arranging the living room. Until I discovered RPM! Suddenly I was getting every task in the house done, and looking for more. The place sparkles! The secret... (217 more chars) |
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Party Tonight!
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| (Thursday, 31 January 2008) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Looking forward to the Portsmouth kickoff shindig at the Press Room. Maybe it'll feel real after tonight!
The kickoff party does lend a great, infectious energy. Last year I hadn't planned to sign up for RPM, but went to the kickoff just to chee... (339 more chars) |
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Amazed
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| (Monday, 28 January 2008) Written by Michelle Moon
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| On the radio last night, a quote from Iris Murdoch:
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
Now, on the one hand, I realize that's 180 degrees from the RPM philosophy, which is abou... (1452 more chars) |
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Re-Recording! Blinding Flash of the Obvious
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| (Monday, 12 March 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Heh. I've been sitting about fretting about the travels my RPM CD might take. Last year, most of my friends got a copy, and I was proud enough to give it out. This year, with my rough and rocky DIY recording, I'm a lot less proud of what I submitted... (770 more chars) |
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Song up on MySpace
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| (Saturday, 10 March 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| My first RPM tune is up on my brand new MySpace account. It's "Some You Win, Some You Lose." http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=155514791 |
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20/20 Hindsight
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| (Sunday, 04 March 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| It's funny; everyone seems to be remixing their albums after the fact! I did that today, too. It's amazing what a difference a fresh ear makes. The only problem I can see with the month-long challenge is that it's very hard to allow enough time betw... (1106 more chars) |
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Congratulations, MeFites
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| (Wednesday, 28 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Great job, everyone. Can't wait to hear your stuff. Thanks to cortex for drumming up so much enthusiasm -- it's been great fun seeing these two communities linking up.
Now get some rest! |
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How I've Longed to Post this Word: DONE!
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| (Wednesday, 28 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Well, sort of. Against all odds, I completed the recording -- 9 songs, just about 35 minutes. And it all went pretty smoothly. I'm now playing with the sequencing. Tomorrow, I have to figure out how to change the songs from.wav files to mp3s, burn t... (1001 more chars) |
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Deadline Magic
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| (Wednesday, 28 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| LORD, it's been hard to finish this project this year. My life's in upheaval, work is crazy, and too many volunteer gigs. But I'm determined! Absolutely determined. Yesterday morning I had the last three songs at "germ of idea" stage. After a day of... (877 more chars) |
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Now, It Gets Interesting.
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| (Tuesday, 27 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Wow - I'm far behind. But that's what the last minute is there for. Tonight is finishing writing, tomorrow is all recording, Thursday is DONE. I hope to drop off my CD at the Wire at some point before midnight Thursday, though earlier would sure '... (584 more chars) |
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Her Majesty
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| (Monday, 26 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| That little 40-some-second Beatles odyssey stuck on the end of Abbey Road.... was Paul just trying to fill out his RPM project to 25 minutes? Ah, well. As I sit here among similar fragments that went nowhere, I wonder if I might need a couple of... (733 more chars) |
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19th Nervous Breakdown
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| (Sunday, 25 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| It's immanent! The latest skirmish in the war of Michelle vs. Audio Gear is my discovery, this morning, that my new audio interface box takes an RCA stereo input, not a 1/4 input like I thought. Back to Radio Shack once more, blowing a big chunk o... (201 more chars) |
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Sheer Panic!
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| (Thursday, 22 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Oy! And the new audio interface that FINALLY arrived today via Musician's Friend after their two-day shipping deal morphed into SIX days over President's Day weekend and when it arrived STILL needed yet ANOTHER patch cord to connect a male 1/4" inpu... (252 more chars) |
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The Lyrics Project
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| (Tuesday, 20 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| It's all over but the lyrics. Yesterday I spent a productive few hours in sunny downtown Portsmouth hammering out rhyming couplets and such. I have yet to go back and refine, but there's at least enough raw verbiage to work with - I actually got mos... (547 more chars) |
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Chick Flick Delivers Swift Kick
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| (Monday, 19 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Last night, for reasons I do not care to elaborate, I ended up seeing the latest Hugh Grant cotton-candy confection of a film, "Music and Lyrics." Stupid as it was (which was pretty stupid), it certainly fit the theme of my month. It's all about ... (1483 more chars) |
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Here's What I Have
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| (Saturday, 17 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Today for the first time I awoke with a hint of panic. Ten days left! What do I have? I have 9 songs in progress. All have titles. All have melodies. All have a structure. All have a basic attempt at a refrain or chorus. Some have a first line or ... (2026 more chars) |
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Audio Gibberish Leads to Musical Insight
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| (Monday, 12 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Techies, gearheds, and audiophiles, look away.
Right-brained concrete types, come here and sit by me.
Recording gear! Heavens to Murgatroid! Am I right? For someone with very little interest in electronics, this stuff is a nightmare. Trying ... (4158 more chars) |
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Yeoman's Work
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| (Saturday, 10 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Yes, a solid 4 hours of work today. Thank God for weekends - I needed some long ubroken time to plow up one row and down the other. It's amazing, isn't it, how many times you have to work through a simple three-minute piece before it starts to come ... (867 more chars) |
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NINETEEN?!?!
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| (Friday, 09 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Yikes. That's what it says...under 20 days left. And where am I? Still wandering in the woods. A dozen hazy little song starts. No idea about this recording apparatus and how to make it sound halfway decent. The terrors!
Fortunately, the weekend ... (76 more chars) |
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Good thing the board is down...
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| (Thursday, 08 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| I might actually get something done at work today. Things are going slowly. Monday night and last night I had work-ish commitments that took the whole evening and left me wiped; Tuesday I spent a couple hours lollygagging at Flatbread for Jazzmout... (486 more chars) |
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I Can't Yodel
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| (Tuesday, 06 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Oh, the heartbreak. I'm just no good at the high haunting country yodel. No 'Lovesick Blues'-style output for me. If only! I suppose I'll have to employ some other tactics... |
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Pandora for Inspiration
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| (Monday, 05 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| I'm back at work today. There's a Slow Food meeting tonight, so I won't be able to work on music all day today. In lieu of that I'm seeking inspiration through Pandora Internet Radio - I've set up a station that is now streaming me wonderful Western... (519 more chars) |
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A Pig in Mud, A Babe in the Woods, or...
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| (Sunday, 04 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| ..a bull in a china shop? One of the three, because today I figured out how to use Audacity. Yee-ha! I've never done any recording at home. Last year I was very fortunate to have a friend record my RPM in a single day on very fine equipment. I don... (1197 more chars) |
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The 'I Suck' Blues
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| (Saturday, 03 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Came home early from work yesterday to set aside two hours for writing. After a predictable 45 minutes of procastinating ('oh look! Must read all the mail! The living room is a frightful mess! The dishwasher needs to be unloaded! etc.'), I finally s... (1014 more chars) |
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Call Me Crazy...
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| (Friday, 02 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| Crazy for feeling so lonely. Crazy. Crazy for feeling so blue. Crazy for considering "Honky Tonk Torch Songs" as my seed idea for this year's project. Yeah, it could end up sounding pretty silly. But I keep listening to this Hank Williams and th... (356 more chars) |
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Too Late to Turn Back Now
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| (Thursday, 01 February 2007) Written by Michelle Moon
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| I wasn't gonna do it. I really wasn't. Last year was great, but when I thought back to those long February nights, sitting on my living room floor with my guitar, surrounded by scribbly scraps of paper -- when I remembered the scramble to the finish... (967 more chars) |
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