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Laughter is a very strange phenomenon.

Before getting down to work last night recording vocals to The Bile Song, Grazina was standing in front of the mic, headphones on and holding two pieces of paper-- a lyric sheet and a rant sheet. I had already set the levels on the board and Bruce was working on the levels on his end on the computer, and all of a sudden Grazina heard herself "in her head".

This provoked her to giggle, which elicited a laugh, and eventually a whole fit of laughing and snorting. She turned various shades of red and purple throughout. Bruce had the presence of mind to record this, so The Bile Song may end up being stranger than we thought it was going to be.

The session was fine, although she felt the song was too smooth for what she wanted. We suggested she record vocals anyway, and we can play with the instrumentation later. We got some good takes on the vocal.

Oh, yeah, we were toying with the idea of either Gregorian chants or a didgeridoo to open the song. As if it weren't strange enough.