With Gregg sidetracked by the Gary Moore project, we’ve had a couple of days to sit back and enjoy some more surprisingly good London weather. On Tuesday, Greg and T2 went into the city to do some shopping and stuff. The rest of us just kicked back and did our own thing. I took a quick listen to some of the early mixes and made some mental notes. Other than that, I’ve been working on a couple of new songs that I suppose will have to wait for another project. Working with Moe has me seeing the writing process in new ways so shit’s been flowin…
There have been a few “experiments” going down along the way as well. Earlier I spoke of T2’s alcohol experiment. I think I last left it that he’d theorized that alcohol should taste bad so you drink it slower. This followed his decision to move from Jameson’s back to Vodka. Well it didn’t seem to slow anything because on night one of the vodka experiment he drank half the 26’r with orange juice, ran out of mix, but by this time was buzzed enough to easily down the second half straight and thus bye, bye 26’r! This night also concluded with him providing such quotes as, “I drank 28 out of the 30 shots in the 26’r” and, as well, the funniest shotgun attempt of a beer we’d ever seen. Last night he made sure there was enough mix to last. The only problem was that the slower pace created by mixing also allowed him to last long enough to finish the 26’r once again. Mind you he didn’t seem nearly as wasted which must have been a small victory for him. I think he’s settled on the fact that the best way to make it last is to not buy a new 26’r everyday. The logic of this is absolutely zero fun though.
We also product tested the “mini-kegs”. The Heineken one was the only one that passed. Mainly cause it was the only one that was ready to pour upon purchase. We’d also bought a Carlsberg one but at home realized you have to buy some Draught-Master set-up to use it. What’s the good in that?!?! Anyways, the Heineken one worked great, but the top did leak a bit and it was pretty expensive. Considering we’d just bought 25 litres of Carlsberg for 20 pounds a few days before, 14 pounds for 5 litres of Heineken was gonna take more than a portable keg to make it worth while. Mind you, having the ability to keep an eye on it while you drink would serve great purpose, during a party situation where the fridge isn’t a trustworthy storage. We also found it funny that it can last 30 days after being opened. 30 days?! T2 and I casually downed it in less than 3 hours. To each his own I suppose.
Ummmm, what else? Hahaha, we watched another of our “cheap-bin classics” last night. A movie called ‘Edmond’, starring William H. Macy. It was a ‘Falling Down’ type scenario where an upper, middle class dude snaps and takes it to the streets of LA. Let me just say that any movie that ends with William H. Macy being someone’s small-spoon cellmate, sporting a shaved head and teardrop tattoo is wrong. Yeah I spoiled it, but did I really?! I just saved you a couple of hours I will never get back. Learn from me. It ends with him kissing his cell-mate goodnight and then they cuddle?! C’mon!!! Actually, on second thought, it may be worth watching because of this… who knows…
We’ve also been buying a lot of iTunes as well. Maybe we should stop though because when old school shit like Salt’N Peppa and En Vogue are your best buys, something’s wrong. Here are a couple quick reviews: New Fratellis?? GAR-BAGE!! Wow, so bad. Not a single song worth listening to. I haven’t been this disappointed in a brit-pop album since I got the last Zutons disc, only to find that ‘Valerie’ was the only good song on it. Too bad I already had it… The new My Morning Jacket?? Boring. I still don’t see how someone can listen to them and not just want to hear anything by Wilco directly after. They are the poor man’s Wilco, period. Take any song by them and tell me Jeff Tweedy wouldn’t sound better singing it and Nels Cline wouldn’t play a far tastier lead on it. Great live band; they still can’t win me over on a recording though… And that brings me to the new Coldplay. Well lets just say they proved that they are not anywhere near U2 or even the next US. I was bitterly disappointed. The first single sounds like a Killers rip-off and sadly it’s the albums best track (there are some that may grow, but upon first listen). Lucky for them, they did play live on the BBC tonite and when they mixed the album in with some of their hits, the songs sounded a great deal better. Touring should hopefully help them. The crowd singing along helped a bunch of the tracks greatly…
I’m gonna take off but before I go, one more thing worth mentioning. There’s no internet at The Glade so we all save going online for when we’re at the studio. This has resulted in daily lists being created so we can look shit up when we get there. Usually its to settle arguments, but the lists have anything from “Who sang on the recording of Pink Floyd’s ‘Have A Cigar’?” to “When were Pringles invented?” … The answers? Roy Harper and 1968… Talk soon…
