Oh joy.

Today I was back at work. To welcome me back was a ridiculous rota consisting of atrocious working times. Today I had 3-8pm, meaning the entire day was reserved by work (having to get the 1 o clock bus into town), but I will recieve hardly any money to compensate for it. Apart from my complete disgruntledness about being there in the first place, it went okay. Getting there ridiculously early I sat in the staff room and started writing some music for Milk Paton as I am now helping Drew with it. Don't know how successful I'll be but it's fun.

My short time at work was fine, I had no customers that particularly annoyed me, save for one cantankerous old man on the phone who literally expected me to fix his washing machine. Literally, he said "why can't you do it!?" when I told him an engineer would be available within a couple of days.

After work I had to get a taxi in order to catch my bus, dwindling my already menial earnings. Once seated I discovered that I had managed to leave my iPod and the notes I'd written for Milk Paton music at work, so was deeply gutted and still am in all fairness.

At home I "bought" Fruity Loops, a sort of synthesiser program for maing music. It's extremely un-intuitive to use and I'm not sure how much I like the results yet: I find the options a bit too restrictive for what I'm trying to achieve with the music I'm writing, so may have to investigate some other programs.

Song of the day is to repent for the synthesisers I have been grappling with for the last couple of hours; to risk sounding like a snob, it is "real music", i.e. something played by a human on an instrument, nothing more. Naturally this instrument is a piano, and it's a song that I really like. It's "river flows in you" by Yurima. The video shows a picture of Twilight because it was shortlisted to be the 'Bella's Lullaby' music but for some reason they chose Carter Burwell's dreary, boring slurry. I'm not a fan of the Bella's Lullaby music. I learnt to play this a while ago and in doing so found out it is actually really badly written: it has a four chord progression, repeated for the entirety of the song with no alterations at all. It's basically the same three themes used over and over again with the occasional flourish. However, those themes are very nice to listen to and it's simplicity allows the player to put their own ideas into it. I'm not sure if this was Yurima's intention or if it is just a poorly written song, but I really enjoy playing it and it's lovely to hear in this, it's robotic, 'perfect' form, once or twice before you get bored of it. Really cynical review of it, but I have a really strong love/hate feeling about it. I hate it, but as soon as I'm on a piano I will without fail play it and love doing so.