Grace (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} celestialblendr) wrote,@ 2008-05-31 10:11:00 |
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Future possibilities...of the FUTURE!
Hi. Remember me?
So, after much contemplation, I bought a ukulele last weekend. Really, I've been thinking about buying one ever since that summer after college where I lived in Jenny's parents' office and noodled alternately on her ukulele and my guitar and tooled around on the computer with sounds I made with assorted kitchen instruments while I was supposed to be treebanking. So, yeah, it's been in the works for a while. I'd like to say that for all that contemplation I have some kind of super-uke, but that I still can't afford. Mine is a Lanikai LU-11, which was the best-sounding for its price range (under $75), which I'm excited about, but really likes to slip out of tune, which is not so thrilling.
So, what, do you ask, was the final inspiration to jump on it? The other week, I had a calling. It was a clear message of instruction from the universe, and it told me that it was up to me to bring to the world a ukulele-based cover of Daft Punk's "Digital Love." It won't be solo ukulele. The crazy solo, for instance, I intend to do on some kind of melodic percussion instrument. Basically, I'm going to take my laptop, my uke, and my cheap-ass mike into the music room at the school, where I have free range of all the glocks, xylophones, and metallophones I could want, and hit things until it sounds right. I've got some working chords, but I think it still needs tweaking. Whether or not this will bring balance to the varied forces of the universe has yet to be determined, but it should be a hoot regardless.
As for right now, while trying several things, I mostly come back to Beirut's "The Penalty" (yay, waltz time!) and Sondre Lerche's "Modern Nature," which was a favorite from back during the summer of lost ukin' and which plays so easy and sounds so good on a uke that I wonder if Lerche played any of its early versions on one.
In between quasi-obsessive uke-strumming (It's sitting in my lap right now. When I stop to think, I pick it up and strum.), I'm applying to jobs for next year. Basically, my current job is too far of a drive for what it is, and even so I worry about getting stuck. I'm applying to several more teacherly things, but would not be opposed to spending a while doing something like working in a bookstore, either. This was actually supposed to be the focus of this post, but then I rambled on about the uke, and now my yard-saleing date calls, with a chance of hitting the fruitful end-of-the-year dumpsters in Amherst, too.
Hi. Remember me?
So, after much contemplation, I bought a ukulele last weekend. Really, I've been thinking about buying one ever since that summer after college where I lived in Jenny's parents' office and noodled alternately on her ukulele and my guitar and tooled around on the computer with sounds I made with assorted kitchen instruments while I was supposed to be treebanking. So, yeah, it's been in the works for a while. I'd like to say that for all that contemplation I have some kind of super-uke, but that I still can't afford. Mine is a Lanikai LU-11, which was the best-sounding for its price range (under $75), which I'm excited about, but really likes to slip out of tune, which is not so thrilling.
So, what, do you ask, was the final inspiration to jump on it? The other week, I had a calling. It was a clear message of instruction from the universe, and it told me that it was up to me to bring to the world a ukulele-based cover of Daft Punk's "Digital Love." It won't be solo ukulele. The crazy solo, for instance, I intend to do on some kind of melodic percussion instrument. Basically, I'm going to take my laptop, my uke, and my cheap-ass mike into the music room at the school, where I have free range of all the glocks, xylophones, and metallophones I could want, and hit things until it sounds right. I've got some working chords, but I think it still needs tweaking. Whether or not this will bring balance to the varied forces of the universe has yet to be determined, but it should be a hoot regardless.
As for right now, while trying several things, I mostly come back to Beirut's "The Penalty" (yay, waltz time!) and Sondre Lerche's "Modern Nature," which was a favorite from back during the summer of lost ukin' and which plays so easy and sounds so good on a uke that I wonder if Lerche played any of its early versions on one.
In between quasi-obsessive uke-strumming (It's sitting in my lap right now. When I stop to think, I pick it up and strum.), I'm applying to jobs for next year. Basically, my current job is too far of a drive for what it is, and even so I worry about getting stuck. I'm applying to several more teacherly things, but would not be opposed to spending a while doing something like working in a bookstore, either. This was actually supposed to be the focus of this post, but then I rambled on about the uke, and now my yard-saleing date calls, with a chance of hitting the fruitful end-of-the-year dumpsters in Amherst, too.
