IT WASN'T JUST ME
In reference to last week's disappointing coffee encounter, I found that the owner of Double Shot was indeed the man who refused to make my macchiato and that he is a very passionate coffee purist, but also has a reputation as a tightwad (macchiatos use too much milk compared to the price of the drink) and perhaps a candidate for an anger management class. I think he should roast and perhaps have people working there that enjoy, or at least tolerate, the presence of customers.
I have been working hard here, pretty much I sleep, get up, have coffee, record Benji/play on Benji's record/record other people paying on Benji's record/edit, break for dinner, go back to recording, and stumble in to bed at hours uncomfortably close to being associated more with the sun than the moon. My ears are tired, I find myself walking into things a little too often. The musical ideas have been coming along wonderfully, tho. I think the songs have come to life in a real nice, unexpected way.
Tonight we finished all the recording; we did vocals for three songs today. So, tomorrow, I mix. I'm going to get over 7 hours of sleep. Amazing. We had the luxury of being done before midnight and we rented a film--"Howl's Moving Castle" the most recently released film by Japanese animator Hayao Miyazki. I do believe his films are incredibly popular, but in case there are people here who haven't seen them--I can't recommend them enough. Ostensibly, the films are about magic; but also the reinforcement of qualities--courage, forgiveness, the ability to see through a person's external presentation into their most central, true selves and bring their best out of them--that ground them in a moral universe, and a believable one. The last three films released here--"Howl's", "Spirited Away", and "Princess Mononoke" are astonishing technically; other's I've seen--"Kiki's Delivery Service" and "The Castle of Cagliostro" are also enjoyable but I think the level of artwork has really been perfected in his films of the last ten years.
OK, I've got to sleep now.
Oh, one more thing--I just received my copy of "Hooray For L.A." by Minky Starshine and the New Cardinals, which has 6 songs that I produced/engineered etc. Great songs, great playing, etc. etc.
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