shawn avery

alison and i went to the u.k. to hang out with ashby and christine... and to celebrate ashby's 31st birthday. needless to say, we had a lot of fun, did a lot of drinking, and traveled pretty much every day. the highlights included: elbow concert @ wembley arena buddha bar london pubs & markets train / tube hopping norwich shopping norwich cathiedral the broads / the swan the beach on the north sea buckinghamshire cambridge & the river cams mexican night ashby's birthday @ the ten bells watching "tv" on the imac the wiseblood v1 set @ the ten bells finding out the truth about the 'old dude' the tate modern gallery the basquiat & twombly paintings walking the thames i've posted over 200 on my flickr page , and i'm editing some video together for a cute home movie, because that's what steve jobs said i'm supposed to do. here's a few of most of our travels...

and my goodness, he's managed to look even more spooky! his nose is microscopic. apparently after he retires, he has plans on becoming some sort of transvestite bond villain. here are some photos from his press conference at the london 02 complex:

this is more of a journal entry than a newsworthy blog : after a week of home renovations at alison's house, and a lot of running around to home improvement stores and shopping centers... we finally had a relaxing, laid back weekend... we didn't go anywhere, and apparently niether did a lot of our friends... sunday was morning snow and afternoon sun. not too shabby. i also finally set up a tentative, tiny demo set-up... i plan on doing everything in laptop/daw except for some acoustic guitar. at this point, especially with the frighteningly cool software that is emerging ... i'm going to be hard pressed to go back to tracking every single instrument the old way. i've read pretty much everything about protools 8, and i'm going to be upgrading quite soon. the idea i reckon, is to make a few low key, self produced albums, release them digitally and attempt to license a few tracks, now that i'm finally heading in that direction. in other blah blah news......