We headed up North this weekend with a friend from Germany to show him the mountains, Lassen Volcanic park, a mountain bar, etc.
Nice weekend, nice weather. Still lots of snow, but things are warming up.
Today, we visited Hog Lake Plateau in the foothills, a lake that appears for about 6 months per year, and saw the blossoming spring flowers, a few snakes, and a family of white swans.
In Red Bluff, we stopped by the "chicken lady" to pick up some pastured eggs, and spent some time with the hundreds of heirloom birds, guided by a calico cat who neither seemed bothered by the birds nor seemed to bother them.
We fed a tortilla to the alien eyed goats for good measure.
This all got me itching to work on something and the Radiohead nude remix that's been on the music blogs got the better of me.
Back in the city, with the whole crew asleep, I spent $6 and a good 2 hours cutting up the "stems" and wasn't inspired by anything except for the "string fx etc" stem and vocals. I cut them into a bunch of little chunks. 2 main string loops ended up being basis of the remix. I found one optigan drum beat that fit right in with these and that beat goes without any variation the whole time, supported only by a shaker loop from a MBO session. It has a Ghost Dog vibe.
Pretty simple.
Wistful optigan powered pop. Look for a clip in a few days.
Long week with bits and pieces of work done here and there. 
