Post by EvilRocker on Feb 17, 2004 22:58:49 GMT -5
STUDIO DIARY #43 (April 13th - April 19th, 2001)
Friday 13th
It shames me to say it.......Good Friday is here again.Have I really been here so long that there are actually two Good Friday entries in this journal? It's Daniel's last day today so all the bass will be down and done by the end of the evening.We're intending on recording some live strings (Cello,Violins,and Viola) early next week on "Over a cup of coffee" and "Drive you home" and then I guess there will be nothing else for it but to declare that it's time to start mixing.I guess we're only 13 days behind schedule!!!!! Not TOO bad if you think about it.Given the fact that all four members of this band are somewhat mentally challenged in some form or another!!!
So what else? Well I can't stop listening to "Let me blow ya mind", the track Eve recorded with Gwen Steffani.It's just so completely infectious and both girls are bursting with so much hutzpah that they absolutely deserve to be universally adored.I also keep being drawn back despite myself to this cd by a Japanese duo called PuffyAmiYummi that someone sent me last week.It's chock full of ideas ripped straight from The Doors,The Beatles and The Beachboys but sung by demented sounding pop tarts!!! Quite glorious and uplifting in a perverse, sickly sweet kind of a way.I play it first thing in the afternoon right after lunch and it sets me up for the battles of the day.
Saturday 14th
Bonus Day off
Sunday 15th
Happy Easter
Monday 16th
It's snowing again outside. Can you believe it? And it's a thick fall too.No light April flurries for us. No sir!!!!
And what with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' beautiful new album "No more shall we part" playing in the background casting a decidedly melancholy shadow over this spring snow scene,I'd go as far as saying things are looking pretty grim.
Thankfully...... to negate the negative (?!) we have some "real" musicians in our midst this afternoon.They're busy putting down some string parts on a couple of the songs and they sound truly marvellous. The best thing about them too is that they work super fast and so for that alone they have my undying admiration and gratitude.
And finally........what sad news about Joey Ramone.Let's say a prayer to our god of choice for him tonight.
Wednesday18th
Sang final vocals on "Use Me" today.The countdown continues and I'm getting SOOOoooooo excited.
Took the night off last night to go and eat some sushi with Bugatti Wendy and see "Pollock" .Oh I so absolutely adored it.A tour de force all around!!!! It hooked me deep in my guts and pierced what's left of my blackened and shrivelled little heart.
Bravo Bravo Bravo
Thursday 19th
Finished "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch this morning.I feel quite deflated as a result because for some reason or another I rather hate it when I get to the end of a book I've enjoyed.
Have I told you about the Neti Pot?!!?! I'm doing this really gross thing under strict instructions from my doctor where I have to pour luke warm salted water into one of my nostrils using a tiny spouted pot thus allowing water to pour out of my nose via the opposite nostril.Once the pot is empty I have to repeat the proceedure on the other nostril! It is an absolutely ghastly thing to willingly subject yourself to and I wince and moan the whole way through this practice but it really does work.I feel so much better since I started doing it.It's sinus irrigation I suppose.Like colonic irrigation except I'm flushing mucus out of my nose and not poop from out of my bum!!! Ha ha ha.......
Had a great discussion last night with a girlfriend of mine about alpha females.We were both ashamed and relieved to be able to confess our status to each other like a dirty little secret.I mean let's face it.............in this patriarchal society of ours an alpha female is considered both a terrifying and tasteless thing to be!!!
What we both realised however is that it's so much bloody FUN!
Hallelujah y'all!!!!
Friday 13th
It shames me to say it.......Good Friday is here again.Have I really been here so long that there are actually two Good Friday entries in this journal? It's Daniel's last day today so all the bass will be down and done by the end of the evening.We're intending on recording some live strings (Cello,Violins,and Viola) early next week on "Over a cup of coffee" and "Drive you home" and then I guess there will be nothing else for it but to declare that it's time to start mixing.I guess we're only 13 days behind schedule!!!!! Not TOO bad if you think about it.Given the fact that all four members of this band are somewhat mentally challenged in some form or another!!!
So what else? Well I can't stop listening to "Let me blow ya mind", the track Eve recorded with Gwen Steffani.It's just so completely infectious and both girls are bursting with so much hutzpah that they absolutely deserve to be universally adored.I also keep being drawn back despite myself to this cd by a Japanese duo called PuffyAmiYummi that someone sent me last week.It's chock full of ideas ripped straight from The Doors,The Beatles and The Beachboys but sung by demented sounding pop tarts!!! Quite glorious and uplifting in a perverse, sickly sweet kind of a way.I play it first thing in the afternoon right after lunch and it sets me up for the battles of the day.
Saturday 14th
Bonus Day off
Sunday 15th
Happy Easter
Monday 16th
It's snowing again outside. Can you believe it? And it's a thick fall too.No light April flurries for us. No sir!!!!
And what with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' beautiful new album "No more shall we part" playing in the background casting a decidedly melancholy shadow over this spring snow scene,I'd go as far as saying things are looking pretty grim.
Thankfully...... to negate the negative (?!) we have some "real" musicians in our midst this afternoon.They're busy putting down some string parts on a couple of the songs and they sound truly marvellous. The best thing about them too is that they work super fast and so for that alone they have my undying admiration and gratitude.
And finally........what sad news about Joey Ramone.Let's say a prayer to our god of choice for him tonight.
Wednesday18th
Sang final vocals on "Use Me" today.The countdown continues and I'm getting SOOOoooooo excited.
Took the night off last night to go and eat some sushi with Bugatti Wendy and see "Pollock" .Oh I so absolutely adored it.A tour de force all around!!!! It hooked me deep in my guts and pierced what's left of my blackened and shrivelled little heart.
Bravo Bravo Bravo
Thursday 19th
Finished "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch this morning.I feel quite deflated as a result because for some reason or another I rather hate it when I get to the end of a book I've enjoyed.
Have I told you about the Neti Pot?!!?! I'm doing this really gross thing under strict instructions from my doctor where I have to pour luke warm salted water into one of my nostrils using a tiny spouted pot thus allowing water to pour out of my nose via the opposite nostril.Once the pot is empty I have to repeat the proceedure on the other nostril! It is an absolutely ghastly thing to willingly subject yourself to and I wince and moan the whole way through this practice but it really does work.I feel so much better since I started doing it.It's sinus irrigation I suppose.Like colonic irrigation except I'm flushing mucus out of my nose and not poop from out of my bum!!! Ha ha ha.......
Had a great discussion last night with a girlfriend of mine about alpha females.We were both ashamed and relieved to be able to confess our status to each other like a dirty little secret.I mean let's face it.............in this patriarchal society of ours an alpha female is considered both a terrifying and tasteless thing to be!!!
What we both realised however is that it's so much bloody FUN!
Hallelujah y'all!!!!