As hellish as our travel to Seattle was, our trip back to Paris was a complete breeze. We took a shuttle bus to the Seattle airport from Bellingham. Checked in with almost no waiting, and got all of our stuff on with no extra charges. We had time to have lunch and we had the entire row to ourselves on the way back...and the movies were better. Flying out of CDG is just cursed.
Since arriving last Thursday I spent most of that day and the next recovering from jet lag--it's harder going east. I tried to stay up, but I hadn't slept that much on the plane, and finally around 10pm I totally crashed. I woke up at 2 pm the next afternoon!
That night I went to see Animal Collective at the Bataclan. I was very impressed with the fact that a band that is often a-melodic, with primitive/difficult rhythms, sometimes no words, sometimes no chords, managed to captivate 1000 people for more than an hour. I usually say music doesn't have to be understood to be enjoyed, as it works at a primal, intuitive level--but there moments of this show where I *really* didn't understand what or why things were happening. There were times when it was hard to relax and enjoy it, --but this I think is what we can call challenging listening, and for that it was really invigorating.
Over the weekend I've been mixing a song for
Billy & the Firm, from Tel Aviv. I've been taking my time, making sure to ease into it to not get too burnt out. On Saturday night we went to the birthday celebration of Tof, who does live sound for the Disciplines on occasion...they were serving something called a soupe de champagne, which is basically 'everything in a bucket'. Surprisingly, I felt fantastic this morning...
Love
KS
Paris
