i’m ripe for becoming a political vegan, i fear. this gorilla video made me cry.
pull it together, man.
anyway …
in other news, the gig with schimitt went well considering we couldn’t hear each other on the chelsea’s small bar pa. i really dig how the originals sound like this (a needed challenge for my stagnant guitar playing and harmonies) and am looking forward to writing some new tunes in that vein. did some townes and guy clarke and elo and mark olson/gary louris and buddy holly tunes as well. eric’s just easy to play with and rehearse with and record with. class act all around. and he’s brilliant.
neal started his reading an hour late so we were already getting tuned up when the set started. we hung out for a few hours after the set (drinking tequilla?) and then played for a while longer. i remember that going mostly well. but i’m probably way off.
here’s neal signing books:
his book was about a carnival that broke down in a louisiana town, so he had clowns and a stilt walker and weird shit hanging out at the party, like this bearded woman:
reminds me of that short lived bearded-woman coffee house on 14th street in san francisco. for a kid from a corn field, it was a curiosity, but they never accepted me there; those broads were mean. and ugly. and their coffee tasted like shit.
here’s my super bowl contingent. deighton still maintains that that victory was the greatest moment of his life:
the lady of the barge record is also (almost) finished. hope to master it later today and “release” it at chris’ party tonight. for what it is, it turned out great. i think i’m definitely taking a pass at manning the recording controls on the next one, however. i’m already spread too thin, and it was just too much. i’m happy with how it turned out, but the process was a bit unnecessarily intense at times, and the pay’s not good enough if it’s not, you know, mellow down easy. i just want to play guitar and let someone else deal with sounds and what not. i don’t know. i’ll see how the flatbed honeymoon album goes, i guess. that one will surely be more leisurely, though, and we’re being more deliberate already, so it’s kind of a different thing. it’ll take a while, too, and i’m not starting anything else until it’s pressed to vinyl. vinyl.
i’ll post the mastered LOTB mp3′s in the next few days. you’ll like them i think.
selections from the ‘sanders goes to europe and beyond never to return’ photo shoot (this girl spends a lot of time looking at herself):
sanders, you’re the consummate california flake, but you own it so honestly it’s endearing. you’re quite an acquaintance! i’ll miss you … go to paleohora!
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I’m putting these on my blog. Love. (And it doesn’t count as looking at yourself when it’s a photograph!)
we should have captured more of the outfit changes … what was i thinking? (and, yes, it certainly does!)
the gorilla video was painful. except am I correct in thinking that Kwibe just attacked somebody?
I don’t think Liz knows what she’s talking about. That’s why the main man keeps shooting her looks.
yeah, that part of the video kinda threw me, too. a dark set up that is pretty glossed over and introduced by a woman who may be insane. someone should have smoothed all that out in the post-production …