ich bin ein auslander

it’s 12:45 and I’m dead tired… woke up at 8, which was 11 for me since i’m still on NY time and that would make it nearly 4 in the morning now. Got a ton of work taken care of today and some of the looming deadlines have been pushed back so there’s a little room to breath. Or room to do the much needed grocery store run and get in a little yoga and 30 minutes of cardio, which did wonders for me.

time for a little sleep - finished the Christopher Moore book before I even left on vacation (Jason may have beat me out of the gate, but I whooped his ass) but haven’t found a compelling new one yet. Got three books started, all of which are dragging. Picked up the new Douglas Coupland today which I’m REALLY looking forward to reading but the anal sumbitch in me refuses to start a fourth book. Must force myself to flog through one of the others first.

Not that I’m going to get much in tonight. 10 minutes tops then off to la la land until tomorrow morning.

Got back in last night.. so good to be back home. The warm sun beating down, gentle cool ocean breeze, a little yoga to loosen up tight muscles, healthy food…

and 6 loads of laundry, a slew of phone messages, over 300 emails, 4 last-minute deadline projects due by Friday, tons of reciepts to categorize and itemize, bills to pay, invoices to send out.

see you next week, then.

just a quickie from watkins glen… visiting wendy’s family, eating poorly and pounding the labatt’s light.

why is it you tell all your clients two weeks ahead of time that you’re going on vacation, so please give us everything you need done right now… they give you nothing, then as soon as you get on the road, you start getting frantic emails and cell phone calls with tons of stuff that you didn’t bring on the road with you that needs to get done immediately?

so here i am on a 28.8 modem connection working my ass off. at least i’m drinking while i’m doing it.

back soon!

well, that went well. i’ll write more later as i’ve gotta start doing the dj thing in a few minutes for day number two of the chameleonwest 2003 art as music festival. we were billed as slender fungus since we never picked a name before.. kind of cool since robby was on local news doing interviews and what not and dropped the name on tv. and then wendy was mentioned live on the radio here as well as an artist… getting the media exposure.

show went well, even though we lost a guitar somewhere in the middle and i think people were hoping we were going to do iris instead of the weird-ass electronic shit we were doing. i was pretty nervous but the nice thing about playing keyboards is you don’t have to look up at the crowd. made it much easier.

anyway, off to dj and drink and eat some hot wings. god bless buffalo.

been snackin on seriously hot wings, roast beef on weck and downin’ tons of beer. did rehearsal today, sounded great, got some cool electronic drums to trigger samples and trying to get reason up and running on the mac with an oxygen for some live pad work. we’re on tomorrow a 7:30. dj sets most of the day before that, then again all day sunday.

been fun so far. the studio’s a mess, people are freaking and constructing things, wendy’s madly printing out artwork for tomorrow…

more later, once we get to watkins glen on monday or whatever and relax for a few.