so picking up where halloween left off... and backing up a bit.
i got into the worst traffic i've been in, in a long time. closed roads due to wrecks, double wide trailers on the interstate... more wrecks further up the interstate. i was supposed to arrive at the studio at noon. i got there at 1pm. crazy. but at least i had a mixing session to look forward to. for those keeping notes... that means we are getting closer to finishing.
so last friday jeff and i mixed a track tentatively titled "dreams." it took 8 hours to mix it. and it still isn't there yet. but it is air tight. very different. think so-cal harmonies. friday night i went to the rocky horror ball at the alabama theatre, but my ears were tuned to a tight studio room, not a massive theatre with tinny audio. my ears couldn't handle it. so i just hung out with my pal amber backstage and drank wine in a plastic cup.
she had to do a radio remote/appearance down the road at the grill, so i was commissioned to chaperone her. i sat in the back while she did her thing and ate some pesto pizza. my friend kim came in to have a drink with her roommate and my other friend traci showed up in yet another halloween costume. rainbow bright. we chatted for a bit, and around 1am or so i really needed some sleep.
saturday i organized data discs, edited and laid around. sunday was similar. just got some domestic shit done. i stopped by the studio for what was supposed to be 30 mins... around 7. i was there until after 1am. it's good to have an engineer that is chatty.
monday, halloween, i still wasn't feeling 100% because of my psuedo flu... but i decided around midnight to go to the nick and see if anything was going on. i ran into kim kelly, who used to sing w/ the ashes... she laid a trip hop demo cd on me. pretty good stuff. well done. but it is gonna fall flat if they don't develop the bass lines. that shit has to move. you only live once.
i hung out with traci, once again in rainbow bright gear... and we talked waaay too late. i got like 4 hours sleep. since then it's been a normal work week. tonight i'm going to resume editing. and guess what... i have taken over the guitar parts on a few tracks. it's the perks of spending hundreds upon hundreds of hours on this album. i get to finish it my way.
there are no good bands this weekend. that is sad. i miss los angeles. more than new york. go figure.
my friends in phoenix have been wanting me to visit... and i shall... as soon as i get a chance... until then... i'm going to have two foam-core life size effigies of myself delivered to them. one for lisa to abuse, and one for parties. they'll be able to fold me in half, and then prop me up at parties and take pictures with me. i even heard rumour that steve was going to document the foam-shawn experience via my own foam-core shawn myspace page.
i haven't been back to phoenix since i left. and now i return as a fake, flat piece of foam board. just like the people i used to live with. it doesn't get much better than that. irony people. get into it.
i got into the worst traffic i've been in, in a long time. closed roads due to wrecks, double wide trailers on the interstate... more wrecks further up the interstate. i was supposed to arrive at the studio at noon. i got there at 1pm. crazy. but at least i had a mixing session to look forward to. for those keeping notes... that means we are getting closer to finishing.
so last friday jeff and i mixed a track tentatively titled "dreams." it took 8 hours to mix it. and it still isn't there yet. but it is air tight. very different. think so-cal harmonies. friday night i went to the rocky horror ball at the alabama theatre, but my ears were tuned to a tight studio room, not a massive theatre with tinny audio. my ears couldn't handle it. so i just hung out with my pal amber backstage and drank wine in a plastic cup.
she had to do a radio remote/appearance down the road at the grill, so i was commissioned to chaperone her. i sat in the back while she did her thing and ate some pesto pizza. my friend kim came in to have a drink with her roommate and my other friend traci showed up in yet another halloween costume. rainbow bright. we chatted for a bit, and around 1am or so i really needed some sleep.
saturday i organized data discs, edited and laid around. sunday was similar. just got some domestic shit done. i stopped by the studio for what was supposed to be 30 mins... around 7. i was there until after 1am. it's good to have an engineer that is chatty.
monday, halloween, i still wasn't feeling 100% because of my psuedo flu... but i decided around midnight to go to the nick and see if anything was going on. i ran into kim kelly, who used to sing w/ the ashes... she laid a trip hop demo cd on me. pretty good stuff. well done. but it is gonna fall flat if they don't develop the bass lines. that shit has to move. you only live once.
i hung out with traci, once again in rainbow bright gear... and we talked waaay too late. i got like 4 hours sleep. since then it's been a normal work week. tonight i'm going to resume editing. and guess what... i have taken over the guitar parts on a few tracks. it's the perks of spending hundreds upon hundreds of hours on this album. i get to finish it my way.
there are no good bands this weekend. that is sad. i miss los angeles. more than new york. go figure.
my friends in phoenix have been wanting me to visit... and i shall... as soon as i get a chance... until then... i'm going to have two foam-core life size effigies of myself delivered to them. one for lisa to abuse, and one for parties. they'll be able to fold me in half, and then prop me up at parties and take pictures with me. i even heard rumour that steve was going to document the foam-shawn experience via my own foam-core shawn myspace page.
i haven't been back to phoenix since i left. and now i return as a fake, flat piece of foam board. just like the people i used to live with. it doesn't get much better than that. irony people. get into it.