Shout at the Desert

I've been working on a couple of the songs that I wrote during NaNoteWriMo. "Amber" needed nearly nothing, really, but I'm working on keeping the rhythm that drives it intact without it being overbearing, which is a performance thing. "Shout at the Desert" needed a better ending and another verse and the extra structure that was hovering between being a second chorus structure and a second verse structure turned out to be a second verse structure, so now there's chorus, A-verse, B-verse, bridge, and intro/outro pairs. I'm not entirely thrilled with the last iteration of the A-verse, but it works for now, and the new outro is a lot better than the one it had.

So I was kind of up until 2am making sure that was right. Really the first two-thirds of the song is the same as before, and musically there's a little arrangement change but that's it.

Tonight I'm going to go see this show at Wayward Coffeehouse, so that'll be fun. ^_^

Uganda update

GayUganda had a conversation in email with a Ugandan legislator; you can imagine how it went. NGO News Africa has an interview with the leader of the official opposition in parliament, who says the bill will pass unanimously.

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Rwanda, which has been considering similar action, the outrage over Uganda's actions has had an impact, with Minister of Justice Tharcisse Karugarama condemning the idea of criminalisation in Rwanda.

Finally, Gay Uganda has the text of the bill, which is at last an official public document. It of course maintains the death penalty.