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Friday,
July 13, 2001 12:54pm
Hey
what’s up! It’s
Friday the 13th today!
Scary stuff huh.
Anyway, I haven’t written in a while…. as
usual, but I’m sure you’re over all my apologies. So I’ll just act like nothing is wrong and get going with
this thing.
Well
we finally finished our album!
I can’t believe it’s all done and in our
hands. It
took way way longer than we thought it would take, but I
guess that’s the way it goes.
We kept coming up with new ideas in the studio,
so that alone took a lot of time.
But also, we lost a few weeks cuz we had
scheduling problems since the studio was so booked. They’re super busy cuz everyone is recording during summer,
so it sucked for us cuz we were only a couple days from
finishing, and we had to wait three weeks to come in
again for one day.
And if we didn’t finish, we’d have to wait
another 3 or 4 weeks cuz we’re leaving for a month
long vacation on Monday! So we got really lucky that we finished before we left.
And we started this in May!
But we’re done, so everything is cool.
Anyway, we went in on Monday, July 9, 2001 from
9am to 3:30 in the morning and finished.
We listened to the whole album on the way home,
and it’s a long drive, but I guess it’s an even
longer album, so we drove around the block about 20
times so we could finish listening to the entire thing.
It turned out really good, but there was a couple
ideas I thought of later that I wish were in there.
And also, some of the levels weren’t as high as
I wanted them. Nothing
major, just some of the backgrounds and the phone call
with Jami.
I
can’t remember if I told you about Jami or not, but
she’s the girl on our cover.
Anyway,
Jami is one of the only people I would have wanted on the
cover. I
don’t know why, but she represents a huge part of my
past. I knew her in high school cuz we had a keyboarding class
together, and we got to be friends and all that. That was my last semester in high school, so I really held on
to that class…. especially since it was one of my
funnest classes. The
only thing is when I think about it, that class only
lasted about 4 months.
But it somehow made its mark.
Anyway,
I got in touch with Jami a couple months ago and asked
her if she’d want to be on the cover, and she was
really excited to.
I was so happy cuz I was scared she wouldn’t
care to be on it and would say no.
Over the past month or so, we’ve been talking
about planning a shoot, and yesterday it finally finally
happened. It
was actually my first time seeing her in 6 years, so it
was kind of crazy. I was pretty nervous. It
was a really cool shoot though.
We took it in Corona Del Mar, at the state beach.
We were there for about an hour or so.
I’m going to get the pictures developed
hopefully today, so I can’t wait to see how they
turned out. My
friend
3:29pm
Sunday, July 15, 2001
Hey, I’m back.
I forgot what happened, but I probably had to go
eat or something and got sidetracked.
Anyway, I got the pictures developed today.
I was really bummed because they turned out
really dark…. most of them anyway.
But all of them turned out grainy at least. The best one that came out was the very last one. That one
was where me, Jami, and Mario took our group shot.
I guess we have to set up another shoot. Hopefully she won’t mind.
Poor thing, she was freezing her butt off for us
because there was a really strong cool breeze.
And whenever she thought she had a break, she’d
throw her jacket on for two seconds, and then have to
take it off for another picture.
Anyway, it’s fun thinking back on it all.
Well,
I’m super stressed because we’re leaving on our
three week vacation tomorrow, and I haven’t even
started packing yet…. let alone finished shopping for
things I need. I
still need to get glasses made, and Lens Crafters closes
at 6! It’s
3:37pm now, but I have to still choose the frames and
the lens type, and give them an hour to make it.
And we might be going to Riverside to pick up 25
CD’s and our two masters.
And then we have to stop by Farmer Boy Burgers
because we promised Mona we’d give her a copy when we
finished.
Mona
is a really cool worker that took our order most of the
time…. cuz we’d always go there for lunch when we
recorded. And
she gave me her number without me even having to ask for
it! I think
I could really get used to this rock star thing.
But then again, I’m sure she just thought I was
super sexy, attractive, charming, amazing, wonderful,
good looking, all of the above, and etc. etc. etc, so
she would have given me her number anyway.
lol ;)~
And then we’re supposed to go to someone’s
house tonight, but I’m not sure if we can.
It just depends how much we can get done.
Ugh! The
stress of living my life!
I wouldn’t wish this horror on my worst
enemy!!!! Well,
alright, it’s not that bad.
It’s just a little frustrating.
Anyway,
I’ve been going on, and I really have to go.
We don’t have enough time to upload our music
to MP3.com (where it will be selling, and you would be
able to download 10 of the 15 songs) before we leave, so
the album won’t be released until August…. and
that’s a promise this time!
There’s no way it’s going to get pushed any
further than that.
Well, try not to miss me too much.
I’ll be thinking of you while I’m gone…. if
you’re single, cute, have long brown hair, deep brown
eyes, natural tan skin, a pretty smile, and an 8X10
glossy photo of yourself… color preferred, but not
required, S.A.S.E for sticker, sorry no C.O.D’s. But
I’m not picky, so if you’re a cute girl that wants
to fall in love with me, please help yourself.
And on that note, I’ll leave you now.
So goodbye, so long, and I’ll see you in three
weeks.
Marc
3:57pm
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