This has been a busy weekend. Johnathon from Unwed Sailor flew back from London via Philadelphia and managed to stay here for a few days before resuming the flight to Seattle. So, Friday night, we met up with our friends in Me Without You who played at the Northstar Bar. I skipped out during part of the show to go see Appleseed Cast, who were thoroughly impressive as they faithfully rendered the lush beauty from their Low Level Owl records. Definite worth seeing. The evening ended with a crowd of us in South Philly getting cheesesteaks/cheese fries and us getting home at about 4am or so. Saturday, Johnathon and I met up with a book printer to discuss a limited edition version of The Marionette and The Music Box. It’s too early to unveil any definitive plans, yet. Later in the evening, we met up with Tom/Steph/Joel/Sarah and some other of their friends for a quick dinner and ventured into the city to see more people in South Philly. On Sunday, we made it to see Harry Potter later in the very rainy day before hanging out with more people in the city. I haven’t seen the first Harry Potter…
Year: 2002
I am listening to some old cassettes that a friend leant me because I couldn’t find my copies. I mean who listens to cassettes anyways. Anyhow, the cassettes in question are bits and pieces of old material from the early Casa Recordings, where Damien Jurado and his friend Eben Haase would make cassette recordings over old tapes and sell them for a few bucks. I’m listening to Lo-Life #1, material from Damien himself. Go look over the old discography at the Damien Jurado website and bask in your failure at being a true fan, myself included. I also just found the Maremont Upstairs master that is Damien with a female singer, three songs that were going to be a 7″ like four years ago [It’s also not on the discography, but it exists, I swear.], but never happened. This all will be remedied to some extent. At some point, in the next three months/three years, there will be a limited vinyl only re-issue of the greatest/interesting hits of this material on btv. This is an unofficial statement that I can withdraw at any point due to failure for the actual release to materialize. Why is this happening? Because Damien wants…
My installation of OS X is up and running. Nearly all of my applications are upgraded with a few things to fix up tonight. I’ve been casually looking through the website for the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album whose insert links major record labels with weapons manufacturing. It’s something to ponder a bit. Finishing up a few details for the Ester Drang recording. My part is to arrange for Chris Colbert to fly to Dallas and meet up with the Drang who will be recording in Denton, TX. Then, I am trying to figure out how to get everyone to Chicago to do overdubs and mix. It’s an exciting little puzzle. But, it’s nice to know that things are working out. The Trouble with Sweeney are planning their recording for December with Brian McTear who recorded their last record. They have a new rhythm section that has been working out the new songs in practice sessions. They will play on 15 November in NYC at the Living Room and on 7 December at the Fire with the new members. Denison continues to make his way around the country. He’s making his way towards the Northwest at a steady pace.…