January 12th, 2016

It's been a few days since I last updated the blog. Typically, I would try to make them up by doing one for each day, but I'll just recap everything that's going on in this one.

I finished the keyboard track for Build Your House of Bricks, but decided to put it aside for a while to make my first music video of 2016! I had a cover of Kiss Me (by Sixpence None The Richer) lying around that I recorded for my friend Angie, but I never got the chance to give it to her since it was finished in December. It's been snowing pretty good the past week, so I figured this would be a perfect time to shoot a video for it. After three days of filming, and just a couple days editing, the video turned out EXACTLY how I pictured it! I was able to get some great lighting even though I shot everything late at night, and I was also able to put some stage lights to use that Jason dropped off at my house. The stage lights came in handy when I shot the angle from my bedroom window, and it really added to the overall mood I was going for. I was very happy with the finished product, and I was very excited to get the video online. Angie hasn't responded since I uploaded it, but I'm not going to bother her about it if there's a chance it made her feel uncomfortable. I thought it was something nice that would've made her happy, but I guess not everything turns out the way they're expected to. Maybe she'll tell me in person what she thought of it, but even then, I'm going to wait for her to bring it up herself.

Now that the video for Kiss Me is done, my next video is going to be for Terri Hemmert as I found out recently she's battling some kind of cancer and just had surgery to help get rid of it. Since it has to be a Beatles parody, I decided to write something to Words of Love. Not only is it a song I wanted to eventually cover anyway, but it seems like a simple song that would be easy to write lyrics to. I'll probably start it next week since I have so much going on right now, but I'll be using this time to think of lyrics, learn the song, and figure out what I'm going to do for the video. I plan on having the whole thing done by the end of next week. Let's hope it turns out good!