I’m trying to make some space on my hard drive and going through old stuff, and I found these two videos from the Low Hello that weren’t on YouTube already for some reason. I like these songs.

Summer Insects

I Got Carpet

Life changes, fast sometimes. Brilliant ideas fail, progress is lost, chaos and stability fight each other, with chaos coming out slightly ahead. Careful planning for the unknown might help. If it doesn’t help, at least it keeps us busy, thinking, occupied awaiting the next change.

     Careful Planning (MP3, 4.5 MB)

I have no idea what I need or want. Anyone have any insight on this? Anyone listen to enough of my stuff and know enough about distortion pedals to do a quickie set-up of me with a distortion pedal? Let me know!* I don’t have a ton of time to try out a ton of them. I wish I could just have a bunch of them in my home to try at my leisure, sort of a pedal buffet where after I try some of the food, I regurgitate the stuff I didn’t like and get my money back. Something like that.

*Perhaps what I’m looking for really is an overdrive pedal? Again, I have no idea.

Ok. So I did some stuff. Totally boring stuff, but I think it’s good now. I changed up the Links at the top to make them make more sense (I think). I took away the link to How Does It Know? because I haven’t written there in several months. Not sure what to do with that blog, but I might just use that URL now to promote my upcoming EP, How Does It Know?.

Also, I’m pretty sure I’m done screwing around with colors. I just made everything the same color as the big text and lines and think that was a good choice. I’m not sure why I chose pink originally, but I did, and I’ve been wanting to get rid of the pink for a while. Mission accomplished.

The Music page is reorganized, and you can actually just get the songs directly from there.

In the sidebar, I added some more links I like, and got rid of the Blip.fm widget. I kind of stopped using Blip, and it kept showing my last listened to song as “Owner of a Lonely Heart”.

Ok. Come back soon for a new song (it’s sounding pretty awesome so far). I’m off to enjoy the rest of this beautiful day.

I just learned how to make a grid pattern (to emulate graph paper, which I actually drew my last header on) in Photoshop. I think it looks pretty good. Anyway, I’m done with that for now. Just as a reminder, if it’s not obvious that this is an improvement, here’s the old header.

OK! That’s all for now. Hope to have a new song up within a week, if I can get over to Dan’s sometime and record the drums.

I’ll be messing with the header in the next few days… The wonderful Angela Duncan drew up a new header that is way better than anything I did prior to now. I’ll be messing with the colors. Also considering a slight facelift in terms colors all over the site. Not sure yet!

That’s all. Carry on.

I was playing around with a free VST synth and came up with the bassline for this one first, and built everything else around that. The lyrics came really easily after that. It’s a short one but I like it. At first my idea was to have a few different song snippets with the theme of the sky, but I’ve just got this one right now.

As an aside, I’m turning 30 next weekend and I think it’d be cool if the Facebook Part Time Songs page could reach 30 fans by then. We’re already up at 27, so if you’re on Facebook and haven’t “fanned” me, feel free to do so!

     Under Some Sky (MP3, 2.1 MB)

This week, as I work on code for my job throughout the evenings, I’ve also been using Blip.fm to listen to music. It’s a pretty cool little service in the vein of Twitter, only for music. You can have your “blips” (i.e. songs you listen to/add to a running playlist you’re creating, which other people can see and give you “props” on if they enjoy your selection) fed directly into your Twitter too, but I didn’t feel like cluttering up my Twitter feed with blips. Anyway, check out my playlist so far if you want to listen to some music, and if you like what I’m spinning, add me as a favorite.

EDIT: in an effort to totally overwhelm viewers of this site with information in the right hand side column, I added a little Blip.fm feed widget that looks like this:

Click any of the songs and you can listen to it via Blip.fm.