Wow. This site has been inactive for a depressingly long time. Maybe it’s time to put something up, eh?
On that note, here’s a cover of the Mountain Goats’ “Woke Up New.” Enjoy! (And while you’re at it, make sure you watch the video for the actual song, directed by Rian Johnson. Totally awesome. Especially the zebra.)
Hopefully this won’t be the last recording I post this summer. I make no promises, but . . I’m pretty sure I’ll have more stuff up in the near future.
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Two updates in less than a month? Let the gasping commence.
I started this recording somewhere around five weeks ago, but two rather long bouts of sickness and a certain number of other distractions have kept me from actually finishing the thing until now. Backup vocals are scratchier and less on-pitch than I’d like thanks to the Head Cold from Hell, and the mixing was a bit hasty, but I’ve reached the point where I just want a finished product. Despite the frustrations, though, I’m reasonably happy with the end result. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it too.
Download my cover of Girlyman’s “The Shape I Found You In” here.
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It’s been a while. A long, long while. I think perhaps it’s time to repopulate the photo gallery, just a little bit. Here’s the newest batch of photos, culled from a couple of recent trips. Enjoy!
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Still haven’t gotten to the Next Big Recording Project, nor do I expect to until all the grad school apps are done (somewhere in the vicinity of late December/early January). As a consolation prize, I just put up a very brief and very simple recording of something else.
I am such a dork.
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I realized today, during my search through saved academic stuff to find writing samples for grad school apps, that when I posted “In Series,” I didn’t post the revised version of it. I also realized that some of my other workshopped stories aren’t embarrassingly bad, so I think I’m going to revise them and put them up sometime in the near future. That’s my standard: one notch above “embarrassingly bad” is the minimum for posting to the site. I might also put up an academic paper or two–the more interesting ones, anyway.
I’ve also been working on the arrangement for my next recording project. Unfortunately the burden of grad school apps and cramming for the GRE subject test is making it rather unlikely I’ll get around to the actual recording part any time soon (i.e. before apps are in; most of them are due either in mid-December or around New Year’s). Still, something to look forward to, maybe.
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I decided on a whim on Friday to record a cover of Jimmy Eat World’s “23.” This turned into an enormous project that consumed my entire weekend and then some, but hey, that happens on occasion. I absolutely adore this song, or I did before I spent ~36 hours working on recording it. Kind of ran out of time/patience towards the end of the mixing process, so some things aren’t quite right, but . . eh.
Still. Not bad, I think, for my first solo recording in over two years.
Enjoy!
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The move out to Lake Monticello has done horrible things to my productivity. Needless to say, I’m hoping to get my creative self going again soon. In that spirit, here’s the newest addition to the photo gallery.
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The photo gallery was looking fairly empty, so I decided to post some old pictures, as there won’t be any new content for a few more weeks (i.e. until I’m done moving out). Again, posting the six “new” ones (that haven’t appeared online before) here, with links to the bigger versions in the gallery. Enjoy!
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At some point I’d like to have this embedded in the main page, but for now, here is a brief listing of the things I’m currently reading/listening to/watching/meditating on/etc. With any luck I’ll remember to keep it updated, which should be no small task given the speed with which I’m breezing through my to-read shelves. Unless otherwise noted, you can safely assume that any books/movies/TV shows/albums/songs/objects of aesthetic appreciation listed there are highly recommended for general consumption.
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This is rather outdated by now, but it’s the only solo recording of mine I feel comfortable posting as of now. I’m still proud of the recording quality, even if the vocals leave something to be desired (namely training/pitch control/a decent voice). Plans as of right now are to sell off some of my old recording gear by the end of the summer in order to pay for a new Mbox, so that I can get back to doing new recordings once I move out of my apartment. So rest assured that there will be bigger and better recording projects posted here in a few months.
Until then, here is the version of Flashbulb Diary’s “Dark Star” I did for my music class two summers ago. Enjoy.
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It’s story time.
This was my final effort from my fiction workshop this past semester. The writing of it was rushed, as with all of my stories, though probably less so than usual. It’s an interesting concept, consistent with my perpetual interest in storytelling as its own subject, but it’s not carried through all that well. With that said, I think it’s still one of the best things I’ve written, if not the best, and I’m quite proud of it.
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The photo gallery is now up and running. It’ll be re-themed in the near future (as will this main page), but it’s up and it has content, to the tune of ten photos. Four of the ten haven’t appeared online before, so I’m posting them here, with links to the bigger versions in the gallery.
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With graduation robbing me of my free server space, I suddenly needed a place to dump the products of my various artistic endeavors. And nishmael.net was born.
The intent is twofold: to keep all of my pictures, stories, recordings, essays, and other outpourings of creative energy in one place; and, perhaps more importantly, to motivate me to actually be productive. With any luck, the existence of this site will keep me writing and recording and such during this whole “year off” nonsense. And it has the nice side effect of allowing interested parties to keep track of my artistic output without having to sift through assorted ramblings on Livejournal. Needless to say, all content is copyright 2005 Adam Haley.
(I should also note that my wonderful girlfriend is doing the bulk of the actual work for me, because she’s a) nice and b) geeky.)
Enjoy.
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