I put some new photos in the
photos section.
I got home, I got sick, cuz you can only hold it together for so long going from Hollywood to the Arctic, not sleeping, taking bone-crunching overnight, multi-leg flights, sweating and throwing yourself around on the filthy floors of various bars and then being exposed to the night air...well...thru willpower I managed not to get sick for all the D's tour and my solo shows in Macedonia and extreme northern Norway--so when I relaxed at last, I was done for.
But I still had work to do. In addition to tour management duties for the upcoming Big Star show in New York,
the Disciplines shows in Benelux, and my upcoming solo shows in Spain, France and Austria...I had work to do on top of the work that I was doing.
I breathed a guilty sigh of relief that
the Sad Knights' master files didn't arrive til Tuesday evening, and took 5 hours to move from a 32G USB flash drive to my external Firewire drive. So, Monday and Tuesday were more or less mine--to catch up on the above. Plus, I finally put together my rough ideas for some English lyrics for a song by
Brainstorm--the Latvian band that supported REM for some of the 2005 winter tour I did with them. Great band, who have already done their album entirely in Latvian and then entirely in Russian, and they looked to some outside help to do some of their stuff in English. They remind me quite of Deus, actually. This is good!
Then on Wednesday I got to working on the Sad Knights mixes, and certainly hit a groove. They added and improved a few things we did in our very rushed, 11 songs in 4 days session back in July. So, I had plenty to work with. I added a few bits here and there, but mostly edited and mixed, and did a great job. I have I think 4 more songs to do.
But, being busy, and being sick, means that I had to pass up what was a great week of music in Paris--Bat For Lashes played the Olympia, Bebel Gilberto played L'Alhambra, and I was invited to the Arctic Monkeys/EODM show at the Zenith. Merde! But it would have killed me to add anything more to the schedule.
In fact, I am not adding any more work or shows to my schedule this year. I'll be gone a lot in Dec/January, and I need to be healthy for the D's recording. So, the 6 D's shows in Benelux, Big Star in NYC, and my 4 KS shows upcoming...that's it for the year. I'll mix this record, then finish the Oh, Libia! mixing, and then I have two one day projects, and then I'm done. So, most of late Nov and early Dec I'll be home, writing and recuperating. Trust me, it's really hard to turn down work, but...I have to at this point. Plus writing time is hard to find.
On that note...I will write...good nite...and sniffle my way to greatness.
Love
KS
Paris
