I’m not ashamed to admit that if I pass by a nice object on the side of the road that could be helpful to me, I will pick it up. Heck, we used to upgrade our entire living room set from garbage day. Yesterday I was driving back from Eric’s place and I spied a small desk on the side of the road next to a garbage bag. I went back to Eric’s, got Simon to come out with me and we hauled the thing back to Eric’s place until I could get Mike to go pick it up for me. This leads into a funny story where I thought it would be funny to just tell him that Eric needs his truck and I thought he would have just left the house and went over there to discover that Eric did NOT need Mike’s truck, but while he was there, he could pick up the desk for me. However, Mike decided to just go ahead and phone Eric first to confirm if he needed the truck. Oh well. The joke failed but would have been brilliant if it worked.
So now I have a cheap old student desk up in my bedroom. I’ve wanted to get a desk to set up a dedicated recording equipment area. It was getting to be a pain in the ass whenever I wanted to record a track. I would have to pull out all the cables, set everything up (15 minutes later) and then record a three minute track. None of that anymore! I enjoyed Troy’s dedicated music room and thought I could have a music corner. We will see how it goes. I also want to bring my guitar amp upstairs as I feel unmotivated to go down into the dark, dank basement to create music. I don’t know how that will go as the basement is a good place to have an electric amplifier. I may be waking up the neighbours with the amp cranked up!
Either way, I shall try it out and see if it spurs on some electric creation.
On a related note, Palmer and Palmer will be reuniting (with Palmers) at Aunt Dinah’s this weekend. After speaking to Troy last night, it turns out that I foresee this just being a meeting place so we can record some music. I’ve convinced him to bring the recording studio on the road and maybe we’ll just hole ourselves up in a room in the basement for the entire weekend. I doubt the family would allow that as they like to be entertained. Speaking about entertainment, I find it entertaining when we get to taste Uncle Richard’s chili. Uncle Richard, I know you’re reading this.