Here’s Twenty-three, a new recording. This one’s different… it’s got vocals! It’s been awhile coming. Back in October, Ben brought some recording equipment to Colorado and recorded a few songs, including this one. It wasn’t until recently that I finally got around to legally purchasing the good piano sound so we could install it on Jonah’s Macbook. Until then all we had on the Mac was the dinky piano that comes with GarageBand, which wasn’t really suitable for distribution. That done, it still didn’t sound terribly good, so I sent it to a professional: Todd! Todd does this sort of…
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From the vaults of old e-mail. This was too good not to share. From: “Cynthia B. Nachzen” To: Subject: Re: you Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 14:48:01 -0600 Hey Honey, I meant to call about 2 hours ago and got involved in something else (vacuuming!)…want to get off line and let me call you?
I was browsing through old e-mail looking for part of Todd’s Babblefish project that involved Wish You Were Here. I didn’t find it, but instead found Jonah’s notes on Nabokov’s Pnin. I think I sent it to her (internationally, even) on the condition that she write me a paper on it. In the middle of two paragraphs is a sentence all by itself: I will complicate you in the morning. For some reason, I was able to recognize it immediately as a song lyric. Considering it’s from a song I haven’t listened to all that much, that’s reasonably impressive. Even…