My flight to Frankfurt got in late, we were about 45 minutes late out of Newark and going east there's a headwind. So we we touched down over an hour late. My flight to Paris was already gone, but I was already rebooked on another--but the connection was quite tight. Evidently there's a way to go directly to the gates w/o security but the signs all lead you to security for those particular gates. And of course, with my boarding pass belonging to another flight, one that had left, I was not allowed to pass. Another interesting twist: the woman who checked me in was a trainee, and was quite nervous, and it wasn't til I was on board my flight that I realized she had neglected to give me my luggage claim checks. So, I went to the transfer desk, and was booked on a flight for noon, and he was able to look up my luggage and give me the numbers. I was hoping to have lunch at home, but now I would arrive while Dom was already at work and Aden at school. Anyway, I had work to do--I pretty much went straight back to mixing the
Pernille Sparboe EP, the last song was left somewhere shy of completion, it was hard to tell how much, I hadn't listened to it in 2 weeks. It needed some tweaks, and I sent the results off to Pernille for approval. I was of course falling asleep at my computer from jet lag.
Friday morning I was up to take Aden to school at 7, and by 9 I was working on a TV mix for the last Pernille song (an instrumental mix for use on TV shows that don't permit a live band but can accomodate a live vocal). I had a last listen to the final mix and thought it was good, and got approval on it later. In the meantime I started in on a project for
Bob Wilcox, a Canadian artist who is doing elaborate pop with a mix of vintage and modern elements. I added guitar, keyboards, vocals, and tambourine to 4 songs over the course of Friday and Saturday.
With my work done by Saturday afternoon, I was free to check out the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 that I brought back from the states...I set up my computer to play thru my stereo, since the discs are DVDs that have mostly audio content. You play a song, and the screen shows a vintage record player or tape machine playing. There are things to click on and see photos, old documents, etc. from Neil's early years. Evidently there are two hidden tracks on each disc, and I haven't for the life of me found how to locate them. Any help available out there? I looked online a bit.
Of course the dominant news of the weekend--Friday morning I logged on to Twitter and saw that the leading trend was MJrip and so I pulled down the BBC headlines tab on Firefox and saw the news.
Read
this sobering article that implies his death as a fait accompli. From the Daily Mail UK, I found it via the Drudge Report. It implies his death was related to anorexia, itself related to anxiety about making an embarrassing spectacle in a show where he would reputedly only appear onstage for 13 minutes...at £1000/ticket. Yikes.
We're off to picnic in the park.
Love
KS
Paris
