After a superpost like last week's Israel blog
I really don't have much to report.
I came back from Israel, and other than writing a massive blog about it, going to see 'Burn After Reading', and spending time with my family I had no energy; I couldn't even LOOK at my studio gear.
I was diagnosed as suffering from exhaustion, and since I am not using that as a legal je m'excuse to explain a crack addled festival cancellation or bow out of a US tour for pithy ticket sales even tho I won 6 Brit Awards, I can only conclude that I really am suffering from exhaustion. I certainly was suffering, I was as sick as a stray dog, and my doctor attributed the pathogen pileup to an immune system not getting sufficient juice from the central power station. With lots of sleep and heavy antibiotics, I was able to go to Israel, and enjoy myself. But I'm not 100% back yet.
On Thursday, however, I headed up to Oslo, and the Disciplines have been back at our rehearsal place, where we recorded 'SMOKiNG KiLLS', and have started to work on new songs with an eye on making an album in 2009--this is even as SK is yet to be released in most places 'round the world; a bit similar to AC/DC's situation with their international releases trailing their Australian releases by a year or more. Well, except we're not AC/DC. But our new songs are great, and one of them (at least) REALLY sounds like the Akkadakkas.
On Tuesday I will head back to Paris on my last airplane flight of the year--I will have been on planes 85 times in 2008 at that point, if you average it out that I spend about 2 hours in the air and 2 hours in the airport per flight, and let's say another 2 hours getting to and from the airport, that's about 3 weeks of my year solidly spent in a situation of boredom/seething road rage/bad food. Woah!
Meanwhile: "Amy [Winehouse] has also been watching the interview clip of Tina Turner chanting on YouTube and she reckons it's already affecting her in a positive way."
Avril Lavigne on having only dark haired backing singers: "I wanted my girls to look really punk rock with like black hair and that's pretty standard for everyone, like Madonna and Mariah Carey. If they're blonde you're not going to see another blonde on stage."
Punk is not dead.
Love
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