THIS MIZNESS OF BUSIC
All this week I've been in the studio producing an album for
Mateo at the studio
Question De Son, which is just a pleasant 15 minute walk from my place. I've been really pleased with the rich, old-school kind of tones we've been getting. In fact, when I tried to get a really modern drum sound tonight, it seems I forgot how!! hahah. I'll figure it out. But really, that's consumed my hours completely, and that's no complaint. My assistant engineer
Fred is superb, and the musicians playing with Mat are really good, so this has been an easy project, we can take things quite far--evidently it was easy til I tried to get that drum sound tonight!!
Sunday night I was hanging at Le Motel with
Flairs and another American living in Paris,
Scott Greiner. We saw a great band called
the Yolks. Kind of funky twee in a belle and sebastian way, with really hokey costumes. They play about every 10 minutes in Paris, have a look!
That afternoon I went to matinee of the film "Half Nelson" which has a terrible title but was quite good (slightly long however). The film centers on a high school teacher who is nursing a major drug habit. The scenes of superficial, inarticulate, stuttering conversations on coke are so realistically rendered that I was immediately embarrassed for every rambling, porky-pig inflected monologue I have ever delivered shortly after emerging from a locking stall.
I have been un-suffering as of late from a number of good habits--I haven't had a drink since my Barcelona show (I thought taking a pause from alcohol would be useful and going out on a Robert Parker 99-point rated Rioja was a good place to leave things) and haven't been near drugs in ages. A little healthier eating habits and pilates have really added up to a state of clarity and contentment and self-worth. I have been experiencing real happiness and excitement and giddiness. It's amazing what you see when you stop the blinding forces of self absorption, self deception, and denial. I really like what I see in front of me now. And I'm more excited about the future than I have been in a long while...my myspace photos says it all: I'm OK with being goofy, outrageously happy, and fun. And I'll even lift equipment (sometimes).
Love
KS
Paris
