April 2, 2013
Got back yesterday evening.
Was ridiculously tired.
Beautiful ride up and back.
Rain and greenery all the way.
Looks like many lush places I have been to.
Hard to believe is brown for over 1/2 of the year.
Am trying to get some rest today.
So, have been working on various electronic components.
Paid a visit to Guitar Center Pro Audio department this morning to consult re: GAIA.
Came back and worked on it for past hour or so.
It is now all set up and working right.
Is that a case of operator error,
or learning curve?
Or is this some kind of a trick?
I don't actually know just yet.
Also dropped mandolin off
to my local luthier
in order to have crushed bridge repaired.
Taking just a few minutes off here,
and now,
to listen to some wild and crazy music.
But, must get going right away.
Am most definitely cooking something up,
deep down inside my soul.
Yes, IT IS all a matter of rewiring.
Uuuugggggghhhhhh!!
So, here's to a photo, real soon.
But, first, must remove all contraband out of area.
That could take awhile.
w/love to all
vw
4-2-13
2:45 p.m.
Tuesday
Ventura, California, USA
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March 27, 2013
I believe that I will be going
to northern California this next weekend.
Will probably leave on Friday.
Arrive in area Friday night.
Hopefully get to spend
Saturday and Sunday
at my regular spot
with all of my animal friends.
Will probably walk on beach,
tide permitting.
And just kick back and rest.
Am hoping for best.
It is 10 minutes to 4 a.m.
Sleepless in Ventura
wonders about
Sleepless from Issaquah.
Here's hoping all is well.
Not just now,
but in
the ever-nearing future,
much moreso.
Know that
you are ...
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March 24, 2013
Two more new songs.
Yes,
choir and organ,
again.
The two songs being
032413a,
and 032413b,
respectively.
The first is written at 2:30 a.m.
The second is written at 3 a.m.
I should not have to remind that:
One must remember
that you are in my "workshop",
as it were.
You are getting to hear the raw product
"that no one, but no one"
normally gets to hear.
I do this as a help and service
to musicians
and would-be musicians
who would like to know
how such things are done.
Ultimately,
parts may be cut out
a...
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March 23, 2013
So, I FINALLY! began
the continuation
of the continuation
of the continuation
(etc and etc?)
of the, by now,
very notorious
REWIRING!!
Yes!! ---
time to hook everybody together
and make them work
with one another.
Ohhhhhhhh??
Did I just say
"make them work"?
You just knew there was going
to be something
which was going to take
all of this fun
and make it
"not fun",
didn't you?
Well,
you were right,
once again?
But first,
a word on the work area
in which this is all taking place.
It seems that
I was ... Continue reading...
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March 22, 2013
Two new songs.
The first, 032213a,
is a quiet choir song,
written at 3 a.m.
The second, 032213b,
is an organ piece,
written at 3:30 a.m.
Yes,
we are
SLEEPLESS IN VENTURA,
yet once again.
It is now about 5:20 a.m.
Bedtime?
Just wanted to get these songs written
and posted
before doing so.
Also,
Just for the record.
I have not gone organ and choir crazy,
or am stuck on it,
or whatever.
They are, by far,
the two hardest to write for,
so I like to work with them a lot.
I haven't even begun finishing the rewirin... Continue reading...
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March 19, 2013
I wrote this sort of
warmup compostion for pipe organ
this morning at about 10 a.m.
The title of it is:
031813a.
I had a meeting at noon
that I had to get ready for,
so I had to cut things short,
not getting to bounce to disk
until 10 p.m. tonight.
As you should be able to hear,
all too loud and clear,
I am in a sort of melancholy funk
at the moment.
Much good news,
but interspersed with horrible news.
Why can't it ever be just good news?
But, better than all bad news, I guess.
Numerous funerals and ... Continue reading...
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March 15, 2013
Well, things just continue
to get crazier and crazier,
(in a good way).
I just walked out of this room
into the next one
just in time to hear a yelp of surprise
followed by a
"You'd better come and see this"
and then a
"Did you know this?".
One of my (4) daughters
who is in Michigan at this time in her life
sent an e-mail of an article
posted on
SKATEDAILY.com - Skateboardings #1 Online News Source,
with the heading
"2013 Skateboarding Hall of Fame & Icon Awards Announced".
I will quote:
"The resu... Continue reading...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward.
March 15, 2013
--- Stature at your high school
rarely guarantees success beyond. ---
Andy Lawler, Agent,
quoted by
K. Callan in
The Los Angeles Agent Book,
9th ed., p. 5
OUCH!!
w/love
from a very tired
and deeply and painfully demoralized
vw
3-14-13
Thursday
9:18 p.m.
Ventura, California, USA Continue reading...
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March 13, 2013
As you may be able to hear,
from the music,
I am still in a somewhat pensive mood.
Permanently?
This piece is entitled: 031213a.
It is written for choir.
I have told before
that choir writing is far different
from instrumental writing,
and that it takes me awhile
to get into the right form and mood.
These past several songs
have been intended
to put me in that direction.
In the meantime,
my subtractive synthesizer,
by the name of Roland Gaia
has been screaming
across the room at me
for several weeks... Continue reading...
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March 10, 2013
New choir piece titled 031013a.
It is quiet and meditative.
Which is how I like it the best,
most of the time.
I just returned from a very moving all day "send-off"
for one of our patriarchal figures in my family.
Of course, this often causes one to become
even more introspective than is normal
as one weighs lives which have come to
completion.
And when you are with people
who are blood relatives
it is all the moreso,
because of the influence
such a person or persons
has on one's early life
and development.... Continue reading...
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