Ahh, another fun weekend. On Saturday, I had a couple of friends over and we had a House marathon (it's a really entertaining show), and a few episodes of another show called Soul Eater. We also lifted weights and ordered pizza - the perfect combo of healthy exercise and artery clogging goodness. Sunday was a much busier day. I spent the day patching a hole in the wall behind my TV, and finishing the recording/arranging of a song I started months ago. Now you might be thinking, a hole in the wall behind his TV? What in the world happened there? Let me tell you...

So when my parents came out the 2nd time to help me finish getting my house ready, my dad noticed that my entertainment center was a little off. My entertainment is made up of about 5 pieces - there are the two sides, the base for the tv, the top piece that rests on the two sides over the tv, and a little shelf you can put above the tv to hold either decorations or a speaker (as is the case with me). He was having trouble repositioning it, so I went in to help. Now, that shelf I mentioned above is designed to widen so that you can move the sides of the entertainment center out to incorporate a larger tv than the default. Unfortunately, the shelf is only resting on a couple of little gold inserts that are only about 2 inches long. I really don't think they intended for people to put anything heavy on the shelf, but me being the enthusiast I am, I put a huge, heavy center speaker on it (it makes it bow under the weight). As I tried to move the right piece of the entertainment center, I pulled it about an inch too far, and the whole shelf fell, including the speaker, crashing into my TV and the wall. At this point, I was freaking out. It was a very bad situation - we had no way to easily get behind the TV to lift the speaker, and if we moved the TV out of the way, the speaker would have fallen farther and done more damage. Well my parents stopped me from being stupid in my freaked out state, and we managed to lift the speaker using a ladder, my dads monkey-like arms, and me squeezing behind the center. Amazingly, the speaker had fallen on the power cord of the TV and didn't damage the TV(I hope). It did put a nice hole in my freshly painted wall though...

Which leads me back to today. It was my first time patching a big hole like that, and I don't think I did a tremendous job, but it will pass. I think it's the same for everyone though: as soon as you get your first house, you suddenly have to figure out how to fix all these things you never worried about before. You know it's bad when you start to recognize all the people who work at Home Depot and Lowes .

As for the music that I recorded, it's a song called Trials that I randomly wrote a couple of months ago. I just decided one day, I want to write a song, and I kind of put it all together. Check out the initial version on the music page. Most of the song was recorded in my apartment, so I don't have a song yet that I've done from scratch in my new studio. I'm looking forward to that though. Having said that, I got to use a lot of fun new toys like my wireless controller that lets me undo mistakes and record from anywhere in the room. It lets me redo takes without having to go over to the computer which is the best thing EVER. As for the song, it was fun to make, but I'm not sure it's one of my better ones. It does have my first recorded piano solo though, so that is something at least I still need to iron out some problems with the EQ and such, and probably the levels a little, but overall, the song is mixed ok. I really need to record my best songs though, so I think I will tackle those next.

If you are bored and listen to the song (or any of the songs for that matter), let me know what you think.