Today is my last Friday of High School Summer. 

Today is going to be amazing. I’m going to a band practice with Mike. He should be here soon. Keep it Real is going to practice and then we’re going to have a Kiwi Rossdale practice I guess. They told me the music has changed, but all for the good.

Later tonight I’m going to Mike’s show up on the north side of Indy. I’m going to jump off of things. I haven’t done that in a while. I can’t wait.

Today Jared Craft came over to record with me. I’m seriously thinking about starting a funk band and/or project with him and Clay Sappington. Clay couldn’t make it today, but that would have been awesome!

I’ve known who Jared was since I was a freshman, but I never became friends with him until this school year. He came over once in May to record a song that he already had… he just had to put vocals to it. I did what I could with it. I love working with Jared when it comes to music. We’re going to make a 12 track funk/rock/comedy CD and it will probably be ready to sell by the beginning of the school year.

It started with just a guitar riff that he had and it sounded really funky. We’ve jammed this song before, but never recorded it. Then, I got the idea for all the instruments to cut out and just have distorted bass with the bass drum keeping the beat which sounds hilarious/awesome. After we had all the instruments¬†recorded, we dressed up¬†the song with vocals. Jared has a pretty high voice with great vibratos. It sounds really funny, but really cool at the same time.¬†

We’re great when we work together because we always consider eachothers ideas and try everything out and it always turns out really nice. Hopefully, we can get Clay over next week to record some vocals.

Today, I printed a few CD covers and I’ll be selling them at the beginning of the school year. 13 songs. 25 minutes of music. 7 dollars. I thanked a bunch of people in the cover and if you’re reading this you are probably mentioned. Tell me if you want one!

I’ve been doing a lot of work on the computer with my recording. As you see, I covered “Hey Ya” and make it into my own little version. I thought it was pretty neat.

I also recorded Keep it Real’s “What it Takes”. It doesn’t have vocals, but Dave told me he was going to let me record the next Keep it Real demo so, I wanted to see what I could do. It turned out pretty nice although it isn’t finished.

I opened a bank account and I’m saving up for a couple things. I’m¬†getting a new microphone next week. It’s going to bring me to the next level. I can’t wait. Then I’m going to save up to get my guitar re-fretted. It’s about two hundred dollars. I’ll have about 75 after I buy the microphone.

Tonight my dad took me behind Joann’s and I practiced parallel parking. I got it pretty much down and I’m ready to get my license. Once I get my license, I want to get a car so I can find a decent job and start saving up for things.

I’m really excited about life. School this year is going to be awesome and I’m really starting to see where I can go in the future and starting to plan it all.

My whole friends situation has been rough lately, but I’m fine. A lot of people have disappointed me lately to the point where I’m just starting to let go. I’m not really too close to many people anymore. Plus, I’m grounded for the rest of the summer so, it makes having friends difficult in the first place.

I’m reading Jim Morrison’s autobiograhy right now. I’ve only started, but it’s pretty cool so far.