ich bin ein auslander

Not that I’ve been blogging particularly regularly recently anyway… and the fact that I was told today that my blog was “boring”… but I will be blogging fairly infrequently, if at all, over the next day or three. We’ve got an old friend coming in to town and crashing at our place, which we swore we’d never do again but there’s always the exception to the rule.

So everyone say hello to Luke, back after a year teaching on a fellowship in Germany, unfortunately only here as a stopover before heading back to Calgary to live with his wife and just about to be born first child. Damn, I really wish they would have decided to move back here instead of picking up and going back home. I like having phd laden friends. Damn Canucks.

picked wen up at the airport this morning… 8:30. brutal. of course, she had been up and travelling since roughly 3:30am my time, so i suppose i got off easy. since she was wide awake, we went off to breakfast at the omlette parlor (monday’s special - banana/peanut butter pancakes!) and caught the early show for “Pirates of the Caribbean,” which wasn’t all that damn bad. Depp was great, although he played it a little too camp.

So back to the real world tomorrow; gotta get some day job stuff sorted. Since I finished the four mixes that needed to be done immediately, i’m going to take some time off before starting on the 5th mix, which is a different project, and then tackling the demo CD to full, real album mindfuck.

And, while doing all that, I’ve gotta read up on the current state of the music industry and start sorting out exactly what my deals will be, both for my own projects and the production work I’m doing. Fun.

taking a break from working on the mixes… one’s completely done and i’m happy with it, another is done but i hate it so i’m going to go in and change it, and the other two are good rough mixes and just need polishing.

watching the cure trilogy dvd. forgot how fucking great they are. going to be tough to go back and listen to my own shite after this.

anyway, long and dreary day. wendy got me hooked on reading harry potter so i haven’t put the damn thing down all day. been an effort to tear away from it. had some lovely baja fresh for lunch, skeely dropped by, and then had dinner with simon at the library alehouse. not going out tonight… attempted to interest skeely in catching 28 days later but he wasn’t up for it so I guess i’m stuck working. already ate by myself today, not going to go see a movie by myself! come home, wendy!

spent most of the day working on some mixes of tracks, but will probably hate them all come tomorrow and start over…

did finn’s with simon, matt, liz, skeely and assorted random friends.. very fun, but miss my baby.

wish she would call but i guess not, so i’m off to bed.

trying to launch a site tonight, so feverishly working..

$1 tacos at don antonio’s last night with a few scattered hermits…

got 4 songs to do some production magic on this weekend. really looking forward to it…

and that’s all for now.