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My European vacation! [Aug. 28th, 2007|08:42 pm]
[mood |tiredtired]

I haven't used livejournal in a while, but this seems like the proper thing to use livejournal for. I guess I should promote my career here too, but fuck it, or as the Serbs would say, jebenja.

First off, I met a nice girl in London, on my last night there. Her name was Mary, and she was a Brit from Dublin. She's the brunette. Her two friends spoke the worst English I've ever heard. Couldn't understand a word out of their mouths.

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We certainly had a nice time together.

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However, magically, we had the same type of disposable cameras that night... and I ended up with hers, and she with mine, and so I haven't any of pics of London, not of the touristy things I did, or of my hosts Jas and Christian, or of the friends I made.

But jebenja, dusa! I was off to Serbia the next day, which was one of the best experiences of my life. It would be too much of a pain in the ass to post ALL the pictures here, so I'll just do highlights, but they're all up here. Check 'em out, or odiejba, duso (probably mispelled).

First off, here's the Season Quartet. My favorite girls. They're performing at Zrenanin here... this is getting ahead of myself, because Zrenanin was the last concert for me in Serbia, and not part of the workshop formally. I had an extra day in Serbia so I just followed the quartet around where ever they went.

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I also stayed with Ljuba, a friend of mine from the program, and his wife Nada, child Andrej, and flatmate Danijela, all of whom were incredibly gracious. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of Nada or Danijela, even though Nada escorted me at length around Novi Sad and explained the sights to me there - more below.

I noticed she used the term "too much" instead of "so much" or "so many" a lot... "too much good times, too much nice people," etc. Anyways...

CAFE DE SOL! Fucking amazing place. 5 minutes outside of town, past some pig farm, it was built alongside a canal which is a tributary of the Danube. The water is perfectly clear, and hence, the patrons of the cafe have themselves a swim before and after their beers (Lav or Tuborg are the local specialities) or their Rakkia, a type of peach brandy. There was another Jaegermeister-like drink there that I was even more fond of.

We were there every night after rehearsals, which happened in the afternoon, 'til midnight or later. It was mostly outdoors in lawnchairs. Fucking beautiful... I saw three shooting stars the second night I was there. Unfortunately, I didn't take any shots of the canal!

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Here's Anna, the violist. What a smart ass. She was 2 months pregnant and always complaining about how she couldn't smoke or drink. Also, how she always had a headache. She told things like they were and didn't cut any corners. Very appropriate to her instrument, I would think. She got busted speeding coming out of Novi Sad on the way to Zrenanin on the final night I was there.

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Here's Milan, the Serbian Matt Harrison. For those of you who don't know who Matt Harrison is, he's a gifted songwriter, a bit of a freak, who looks like a big nerd, and is, but can party with the best of 'em. The same is true of Milan - a really nice guy, a brilliant performer, and was out every night, drinking rakkia or going dancing. The only thing I didn't like about Milan was his thong that he wore at the canal. Yeesh, Europeans, put some clothes on!

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Here's Alexandra Vrebalov, my matron saint. She's a bit of a local celebrity out there - done well for herself, and her grandmother was a war hero - a physicist who fought with Tito's partisans! There's a bust of her in the park outside the City Hall where the student performance Sunday night was.

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Assorted Serbs - friends of some of the Serbs in the program - came up from Belgrade for a few days and sat in on classes. ALL were highly trained musicians from academy. One of them was quite pushy in his musical opinion, actually. All very bright, perhaps a bit distant at first, but good conversationalists none the less.

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Ok. Here's Misha, who was a nice gal, but not my closest friend on the trip... still... has a more stunning looking girl ever graced the Earth? I'm not sure... Hitler definitely had it wrong with his master race crap. These Serbs are far closer to a "genetic ideal". I took way too many pictures of Misha; you can see 'em at the photobucket site. I joked with her a lot that we were going to ship her to America, make her a big star, and I'd be her abusive producer, and she'd end her days in despair at some cabaret joint in Vegas. It could happen, folks!

In the foreground of the beautiful girl are the beautiful beers - Tuborg, I think. Lav is also excellent, and a large bottle is the equivalent of $1 USD. Fucking beautiful.

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Check out this amazing graffiti, from Sombor. I couldn't make this up:

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And here's Mina. Oh, Mina Slina! Dzidzi midgi! (that's Serbian for "cute" or "adorable", sort of) As you might except of a 1st violinst, Mina was the star of the show, very flirtatious, outgoing, a bit of a dilletante, but highly skilled, absolutely gorgeous, charming, and highly solicitous of me, which made me feel good. She was at the Cafe de Sol every night as well - actually, the whole quartet was.

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And what, you might ask, was this? That was my question, too. It was plastered to a door in the old City Hall, where we had rehearsals in an incredibly stuffy, hot, room with a chandelier and baby grand piano. Mina explained that it's anti-rightist propaganda. Right down the hallway was pro-rightist propaganda... a "Whither Vojvodina?" poster. For those who don't know, Vojvodina is sort of the "sudatenland" of Serbia, a Serba enclave in northern Kosovo. Most Serbs, even leftists, don't want Kosovo to go...

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Whereever I go, I have to pick up the prettiest girl and carry her around. This was at an amazing fish stew + all you can drink wine dinner we were treated to by the Sombor Cultural Center. I made a bit of an ass out of myself with this move, but you only live once.

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Mina was not amused.

Oh, Angelina (hard "g" sound). Mina may be the star, but Angelina would be the one I'd marry and take home to mom. Or take myself home to her mom, perhaps. As 2nd violinist, she was also cute, outgoing, but considerably more reserved, more deferential, and had more interest in traveling the world, playing Irish jigs, etc. Also very dzidzi midgi and solicitous of me. I almost put the moves on her, but it just wouldn't have been right. She's too nice a girl. I am going to write a piece for her and Mina though, at their request. I hope she's able to make it out of Serbia and see the world... it's incredibly hard to get a visa out of the country...

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And this kind of sums the two of them up, for me. At the Cafe de Sol one night:

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Sombor is full of weird sights. They sell shoes and jewelry out of display cases in the middle of the street - much weirder than it sounds. And here's a woman in a box.

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Not a real woman.

Here's the coffee spot right below our school where we went before class and during every break. Class was more or less just in the morning; after lunch at the dorm (where there were no shower curtains or laundry) we went to individual lessons. Milan had the stroke of genius of driving the instructors to the Cafe de Sol, which was indeed a great decision - combine learning with beer and swimming.

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The folks in this picture are Stasha, Misha, Tea, and Ljuba. I don't know if Ljuba is as handsome as the girls are hot, but the whole country was just completely ridiculous in that regard. Also notice the cool statue of the woman with the coffee cup on her head. We got tons of espresso smleko here...

I ran out of disposable cameras at one point, so sadly, missed the photos of the student concert in Sombor, in front of this HUGE painting of Austro-Hungarians just slaughtering Turks in the new City Hall. Too bad. It was quite a concert... afterwards we had one final jaunt to Cafe de Sol, where we had the run of the place and played a good deal of foozball, and did some dancing. Turns out Prof. Vrebalov is a great dancer as well as a composer... who would've thunk it?

Anyways, the next day I went to stay with Ljuba, at his invitation, in Novi Sad. As I mentioned I haven't pictures of Nada or Danijela. Too bad! Novi Sad is amazingly beautiful. It looks like a total planned-economy dump from the outside, but the downtown is just amazing as hell. They had those painted, ceramic cows that we had all over NYC a few years back. As in Sombor, lots of people drinking espresso or beer or wine outdoors in the middle of the day... cafes up the wazoo...

Ljuba and Nada plied me with food while I was there... Serbian burek, which is cheese-based, and moussaka, which was cheese and potatos more or less. Homemade, and really fucking delicious. Plus more Turkish coffee than I could possibly digest.

Their kid Andrej engaged me energetically in Serbian. I taught him how to high-5 (batsi pet!) and played cars with him. The poor young parents are living in an incredibly cramped 2 bedroom 5 minutes from downtown, but they seemed happy... Danijela wasn't around much because she worked at a casino (as a bartender? hostess? wasn't sure) while she went to med school during the day.

Nada took me to the Danube and the citadel across it... really, totally beautiful. There are many pictures at the photobucket site. I encourage you to check 'em out, because the Danube really is beautiful, and the Citadel, built by knights templar way back in the day, has been converted to an artists' residence now, but there's still leftover artillery from WWI on a hill up there...

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I spent the day in Novi Sad and then met up with the quartet, and we drove to Zrenanin. I don't have a very good picture of the cellist Kata. She was a bit dowdy, very shy, and very nice. Anna got busted for speeding out of Novi Sad, but we made the concert. I was just tagging along at this point - the official student concert was done, and most of the students had gone home, either to America or Belgrade. But I had a spare day to kill so I thought I'd check out the South Oxford Six's concert in Zrenanin (the SO6 were the teachers of the workshop, including Alexandra V., and my old friend Mike Rose, who also knows DJ Pu Yi, and who really loosened up on the trip, especially once the rakkia was flowing... just look at that shirt!)

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Anyways, Zrenanin was beautiful on the inside, just like Novi Sad. The quartet and composers were stressed out before the concert, because time was short, and they had to cut some pieces. They told me they couldn't do my piece, but Mike went and talked to the quartet, who were having a breakdown - Mina especially - and they insisted on doing my piece! So I got a whole second performance, and it was great. Twice as good as the official student concert. Mina was in tears over accidents that no one could notice at the end of the concert, but even Dan Sonenberg's piece, which got quite bollixed due to some dropped and misordered sheet music, sounded great.

It was hot in there, though! Actually, the whole country was hot! I guess London was pretty damn hot, too.

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After the show, we all went (except Alexandra) to this amazing fish restaurant out of town about 20 minutes. I saw more portents in the sky - this time a huge dry thunderstorm. We got to the restaurant, with a windmill outside of it, and rushed it just as it began to pour. There were animal trophies like crazy all over the walls, and unfortunately, I don't have any good pictures of them. We ate plate after plate of fish, and bottle after bottle of wine. A local band consisting of accordion, upright bass, and guitar, came and serenaded us. They played Serbian and a few American tunes. The thunderstorm knocked the electricity out, and for awhile we ate by candlelight.

After the dinner, I drove back with the quartet to Ljuba's place, where I said goodbye to all of them. Maybe I should have proposed marriage to Angelina right there, I'm not sure. In any event, I really hope I see them again. They were just like a little rock band. I woke poor Ljuba up at 1 am, which I feel pretty lousy about. Oddly enough, he was sleeping on the fold-out couch with me instead of with his wife and child in the bedroom...? But I just assumed that maybe this was some Serbian cultural thing I didn't understand. Anyways, it wasn't "like that," you know.

The next day Nada took me to the bus station, and I said goodbye to her and Andrej and took the bus to Belgrade. I must admit I cried like a little girl to leave Serbia. Too much nice people, too much cheap beer, too much high standard of living.

Then I did some totally hardcore commuting - I took the bus to Belgrade - no English, mind you - took a cab from the bus station to the airport - took a flight to Heathrow (15 mins delayed) - took the Heathrow Express to Paddington (not the Underground, a different rail system) - walked to the Underground, took the Bakerloo line to Waterloo train station, and then took a Eurostar to Paris, where I was met by my erstwhile hosts Marie et Neil.

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I stayed with them in the dix-huit arrondisment (18th neighborhood, more or less) in their flat. Marie had a surprise for me: she was 6 months pregnant! But she still went out and cruised around with us. The first night there we went to a music venue called La Fleche d'Or, which seems like a good place for the Missing Teens. I met a nice girl there by the name of "Moon" (actually Lune). She asked me where the after-party was, but I still didn't have the address where I was staying or my hosts' phone number, so I was a bit fucked in that regard. Still, I met up with Moon a few days later, after seeing le Musee D'Orsay with my old friend Arian Saleh, and we had coffee together. Here she is, folks!

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There are many beautiful pictures of my Parisian visit on the photobucket site, so check them out. Paris really is an impressive city; even more so than London, there's famous shit EVERYWHERE. And it's cheaper and easier to get around. Still not as cheap as New York, though. Never thought I'd say THAT.

The most beautiful thing I saw in Paris was Sacre Coeur. One of the only buildings I've ever seen that literally made me say, "Wow, that is beautiful" out loud over and over again. I took at least 3 pictures of it, and went in and observed prayer - but check it out: God deleted my photos! ALL my other photos of Paris came through, but there are none of Sacre Coeur! He must have known I felt bad about being an atheist during prayer...

But I've got news, God - I can just get a picture off of the internet! So fuck you! That's on the photobucket site, too.

Here's one touristy thing... me outside L'Arc de Triomphe, which is HUGE, and awesome.

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I was only in Paris for 2 days, sadly, and it was raining the whole time. In the middle of the week, too. At least I had one good weekend in London, but I really need to go back to both towns and give them a fair shake. Being back here, I haven't really adjusted, perhaps because my home life is odd with my cat and my new roommate situation, etc., etc., but I've been having these naps where I wake up and think, "Uh, am I in Jas' spare bedroom in London? On Ljuba's couch in Novi Sad? Oh wait, I'm in Astoria."

There's so much more I want to say, but I've said most of it to y'all already, and I need to hit the sack. One last closing thought: Serbia looks just like Pennsylvania - rolling valleys, corn everywhere, occasionally a beautiful little forest with twisty roads, and classic American hits of the 80s playing on the radio all the time - Bananarama, post-Beatles George Harrison, etc.

Serbia I will miss the most.
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My Kingdom For A Bunch of Cool Shit [Oct. 3rd, 2006|04:39 pm]
[Current Location |At The Office]
[mood |energeticenergetic]
[music |"Sledgehammer" by Harry Belafonte]

I've been in overdrive mode of late, getting a lot of work done, cutting bass with Sanford Livingston and guitar with Orange Magic, in particular. More details can be found at our website, in the "NEWS" section. Just click on the milk carton (for some reason, people have a hard time figuring that one out).

Instead of a full update here, I present a brief discourse on Dharshini David, the hottest women on television.

Dharshini David is the hottest woman on television. She's hotter than Condi Rice. Most of you reading this are doubtless Americans, and probably have no idea who the hell Dharshini is. Well, she's the business reporter for the BBC World News. Apparently she used to work for HSBC. She's erudite, well-educated, and looks like she would make the most incredible lover in the western hemisphere.

Strangely, given the nature of the internet, there are no Dharshini David fansites. I was on the verge of making one myself, but I would need some software to capture high-quality images from streamed television, or what-not, and I possess no such technology.

But in my reception-desk induce google meanderings, I did find a website that some of you who can't quite get behind straight-ahead porn may find useful: BBC Babes (there's an internal link to CNN Babes if you want to support our troops by wanking to an American broadcaster).

Needless to say, the pictures of Dharshini don't do her justice. But they're there. That's a start. Dharshini, if you are reading this little spiel, I'm 27 years old, single, love animals, and am looking for a economist to give a lengthy full-body massage to. I can be reached at: jamescall8880@hotmail.com

The rest of you, check out the BBC World News. On Channel 13 at 6 PM and WLIW-21 at 7 PM EST.
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New Songs! New Mixes! [Oct. 2nd, 2006|10:52 am]
[Current Location |At the Office]
[mood |energeticenergetic]
[music |"Watching the Detectives" by Britney Spears]

There's new mixes of "Carpe Diem," "Rise To The Bait," and "Fernando and Louise" up. Hopefully by tomorrow there'll be more... "Andy and Miranda" is nearly done, "Waiting On The Internet" and "Wash Up" are still close. Except for the horns...

Also, check out the two new Songs of the Week. "Put The Knife In And Twist" is pretty straightforward. It's about women. What else? "Magneto," on the other hand, is a happy song, about Erik Lensherr. It's got that down-home jug-band vibe that only no live instruments whatsoever can provide.

Check them out here.
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The Gift That Keeps On Fucking Me Up [Sep. 28th, 2006|11:14 am]
[Current Location |At the Office]
[mood |energeticenergetic]
[music |"Everybody Wants to Rule The World" by James Brown]

I thought my only foe was God, but it turns out that Technology is as well, which is a total drag. I've had ProTools, Logic and iPod problems up the wazoo as of late. But that's not stopping me from ROQING any less.

The most exciting news on the horizon is that Mike "Jack Fabulous" Weber has made us this new, pretty website. In addition to the new look, we have new mixes up, and a new song of the day section! Please stop by and check out "Tonight I Dream Of The Vet," the song of the day. And of course, the hits you all know and love.

Tonight I finally track bass with Sanford Livingston, thank God. Last night tweaked some keyboards and vocals with The Bosch, or at least, Harrison and Raff thereof. Those new mixes should be up soon, presumably at their website.

I've been playing guitar with Orange Magic of late... his guitars can now be heard on "Drive Uphill" and there's more coming soon. Still waiting to track horns with the Porn Horns and maybe get some more guitar out of Alex and Roko and Hekiro... they're all busy dudes.

Oh, and check it out kiddies... we have a whole fucking VIDEO section now too! Thanks to Orange Magic for these.

Now, just gotta book a show! We have Amy Chace's birthday party on November 11th and then the Missing Teens West plays the Mishap Winter Formal on November 17th, but we're looking for something in October. If any of you hep cats hear of an opening, get in touch with our asses!

With love, or something like it,
Commonwealth Saxon
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Get Drunk At Work [Sep. 19th, 2006|04:57 pm]
[Current Location |At Home]
[mood |drunkdrunk]
[music |"The Hebrides Overture" by Mr. Bungle]

Ah, we are making progress, slowly but surely. There's a slightly new mix of "Carpe Diem" up at the website, and I've been getting a lot of work done on the newish Bosch tunes. Those will be posted soon. This weekend is a bass session with Neill Livingston. "Jesus Camp," the film the Force Theory did music for, is this Friday. I'm gonna go see the premiere and then try to force Sanford to do my bidding.

In the meantime, kids, keep on truckin'!

J-Sut
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Look At Me I'm Self-Employed [Sep. 11th, 2006|09:54 am]
[Current Location |At the Office]
[mood |energeticenergetic]
[music |"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by KRS-1]

Thanks to everyone who came out to Don Hill's last Friday. Special thanks to Greg Travis for filming and recording the show, and to Andrew Raff and Holt Richardson for taking some purty pictures. One of these is up at our myspace page. The videos should be coming soon to the website.

We're taking a little hiatus from gigging to wrap up work on Music For Young Adults. I'm furthermore gonna be wrapping up some work for The Bosch. Holt and Andrew and I had a pretty productive little session yesterday, and - knock on wood - these songs should be done and "mastered" within the next two weeks.

Also, some live tracks - including our cover of "Takin' Care of Business" by BTO - should be up on the website sometime soon.

It's PRODUCTIVITY time!
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Stuck In The Middle With Booze [Aug. 29th, 2006|10:06 am]
[Current Location |At the Office]
[mood |energeticenergetic]
[music |"Here Comes The Flood" by Nas]

Ahhh. Back to the Grind. Another day, another dollar.

I still have no doorknob on my apartment door, and every woman who's attracted to me is extremely emotionally unstable. But that's not holding me back from the huge world of ROCK!

The big news is that we're playing our first Don Hill's show on Friday, Sept. 8, less than 2 weeks from now, and we'll be debuting a lot of stuff there: new tunes such as "Crown Heights," revamps of some old classics such as "This Is The End Of Your World," and the (90% likely) return of the "keyboard guitar" (Roland AX-7) and the wireless headset mic.

Darren Jones of course will be rocking the "skins," which I always thought was a weird name for the drums, although I suppose it does make sense.

Furthermore, Dave Tirolo just passed along the word that the basslines are all cut and ready to be edited and mixed. That's very fantastic news. I'm taking September off, after our show, to mix this down, hopefully add some horns, more guitar, and backing vocals. Then, it's off to the final mixing and mastering stage.

For those of you bored at the office, I highly recommend you pop by our website and listen to the tune "Logic Problems". This is a piece I performed with Mike Weber at the Catch 3-year Anniversary at Galapagos. The performance was a little incoherent, but entertaining, and hopefully a video of it'll be up in a couple of weeks, as should some videos from our Kenny's Castaways gig (thanks, Greg Travis and Renee Cole!).

No shows are booked for October yet, but there'll be at least one, somewhere. After that, we'll be playing Amy Chace's birthday party at the Underscore on Nov. 11, and I'll be flying out to "Cali" to play the Mishap Winter Formal 2006 on Nov. 17. You SFers stay tuned. Dave Posner and crew will be joining me as Missing Teens West for more butt-rock goodness.

Stay warm, and remember: if at first you don't succeed, don't blame me.

James
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Kenny's Castaways only 2 days away! [Aug. 15th, 2006|06:40 pm]
[mood |energeticenergetic]
[music |"Mother Superior" by Mariah Carey]

It's almost upon us, folks: our gig at Kenny's Castaways is right around the corner! Greg Travis is going to filming and recording the whole thing, so we need all your support showing up and screaming as loud as you can!

It's only $5, at 11 PM, Thurs., Aug. 17. Kenny's Castaways is on 157 Bleeker St., near Thompson. It's near the R,W,6,1,9,etc,etc. trains. It's gonna rock!

Furthermore, be sure to swing by the website and check out the new mix of Fernando and Louise! With guitars by Roko Djokovic. It's fantastic!
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Kenny's Castaways gig looms on the horizon [Aug. 8th, 2006|10:18 am]
[Current Location |At The Office]
[mood |energeticenergetic]
[music |"Owner Of A Lonely Heart" by Stravinsky]

Thanks to all of you who came and saw our gig at the Underscore this last Saturday. Not too many people caught the show, but it was high octane and a lot of fun to play. Nice to have such a big stage and floor to cruise around on. It was also the first time Darren and Spencer played together!

I would like to know what fucking genius decided that myspace was going to be the new forum of networking and promotion for musicians. I have spent one hour this morning clicking the "save event" button over and over again, only to be returned with some non-specific error message and the state changed to "Alabama" from "New York".

BULLSHIT, my friends, BULLSHIT.

In any event, our big gig at Kenny's Castaways is coming up, so if you're in the area, please come out and show your support. We go on at 11 PM and it is going to be a phenomenal set. It's also being filmed and recorded, so we need all the screaming imaginable for our live video!

After this gig, and our Knitting Factory gig on the 8th, it's break time for the Missing Teens. I'm getting burnt out to a certain extent dealing with booking, scheduling rehearsals, etc., and I want to do some more recording and mixing. Dave Tirolo is providing more bass and we've got Roko's guitars on "Fernando and Louise" and "Playing Politics". All these things need to be added. Plus, I've been putting off mixing down some tunes for The Bosch for some time and it's time to finish that up, especially considering how ridiculously hot their new bassist is. I know that shouldn't be a factor in my musical professionalism. So sue me.

We'll likely be playing Amy Chace's birthday party, wherever that is... and hopefully Neill Livingston of the Force Theory will be providing some mixes, and - keeping my fingers crossed here - joining us on stage in coming months...

For now kids, I'm off to office land. Make sure to check out our real website sometime, as well as our Myspace page, which will be filled with more wacky bullshit doubtless soon.

Love-hate relationship,
James
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I'm Gonna Do My Best To Turn You On (In The Club) [Aug. 1st, 2006|09:18 am]
[Current Location |At the Office]
[mood |energeticenergetic]
[music |"Lithium" by Rick James]

Ah, the Brothers Johnson. Standards of our great civilization, fallen into some disrepair by the prevelance of the white teenage diva.

We've got shows 'a plenty coming up: two this weekend - midnight at the Underscore and the next day (6 PM, I think) at the Lucky Cat. Both shows featuring the return of Spencer Chakedis, back from West Palm Beach, and Darren Jones, who is really stepping up his game/being a trooper for doing so many shows and rehearsals.

I'm thinking about debuting a few new tunes at these shows. At the very least, they will feature the return of a few golden oldies, including Tag Along and On and On.

I'm a very busy man with all these shows, so when the Knitting Factory on September 8th wraps up, I'm gonna sit down and finish this album... and then start on a whole new batch of songs, including the long-delayed "Crown Heights" and "Hopscotch". The creative juices are flowing, it's just a matter of getting the time to set in front of ole Bessie and crank these tunes out.

Thankfully smooth Dave Tirolo will be rocking the bass recording this week, so many new mixes should be coming over the next few weeks. Also, Sanford Livingston of Force Theory is gonna try his hand at a few of these tunes.

Stay tuned - it's a very exciting time for the Missing Teens, and, by extension, all of humanity.
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