11.15.04

"Dogs run heaven."
- James Ellroy

SOUNDTRACK:
the entire Naked Raygun discography (thanks Dan)
Tom Waits "Real Gone"
Nick Cave "The Lyre of Orpheus / Abbatoir Blues"
Hot Snakes "Audit in Progress"
American Music Club "Love Songs for Patriots"
The Band "Music From Big Pink"
Nakatomi Plaza roughs
Blinker the Star "August Everywhere"
John Cale "Slow Dazzle"
any Beatles record clsoe at hand
police helicopters (not a band; helicopters)

11.14.04

3AM in Park Slope. Dying for some rest. Finished tracking instruments for the Nakatomi Plaza record at Jarvis in Manhattan. I'm in love with Jarvis. I guess this studio will be moving to Vermont next year; typical that I'd come across such a great place so near the end of its run.
I have been in New York for over a week and didn't have time to hook up with anyone I know here. Why is it a natural law of recording that no matter how much time you schedule, 7 days or 7 weeks, the last hour of every day turns into 2 and the last day of every project finds you wishing you'd been able to book just one or two more days to get it all in?
NYC: still an amazing city even when you can barely get a minute outside in it. One of those eternal truths you have to police yourself from saying too often lest you look like a total idiot; e.g.: "the Beatles sure wrote some great songs" -
What is up with engineers who DON'T look like they haven't slept for 3 weeks?
What is up with James Ellroy's sentences getting shorter and MORE alliterative?
What is up with me being such a dedicated Ellroy fan when I know his politics are somewhere to the right of Mussolini?
Anybody out there want to offer me an unbelievable deal on a blackface 1176?
Get some Park Sleep, Robbins ...

11.08.04

Back to work! Recording Nakatomi Plaza at the wonderful Jarvis Studio smack dab in the middle of New York City ... a great band adept at making their smorgasbord of ideas cohere into fluid song structures ... and great players too. I am spoiled on pretty much every front.

11.03.04

Well, we're in it now and we have no one but ourselves to blame. The American people have turned out in record numbers to prove to the world just how stupid we really are. Bush & co. will call their victory a mandate and we'll all pick up the tab. Here's to four more years of apocalyptic Christianity, unfettered greed, corruption, Orwellian doublespeak, and straight-up war on civil liberties.
Maybe we'll get some good punk rock out of it.
I don't find that particularly consoling, but at this point I'm clutching at straws.

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