In Brief

A quick summary of the day’s events:

Bought the Digitech delay, it’s a lot of fun and very impressive piece of technology in such a compact package.

Picked up the new Of Montreal CD. Got the Modern Lovers disc for Kyle.

Hockey pool draft was cancelled due to technical difficulties – Jim and Nicole’s draft lists arrived in my mailbox corrupted. We did a mock draft anyways and I pick last. Ended up with an *ok* team. Real draft sometime Monday.

Still did pizza, beer and hockey with Sudeep and Large though. Mmm-mm good. Too bad the Leafs lost.

New Haven Comet

Got the new Luna EP. It’s stuff like this that convinces me that Luna are the best band on the planet. This is a disc of covers and demos and they’re so good it’s just silly. Even their videos (there’s two from Romantica on the CD) are cool. Viva Luna.

Swung by Songbird after work today and played with the new Digitech DigiDelay. Which will soon become part of my rig. It does everything my DD3 does and much more. I figure I can recoup half the cost of the Digitech by selling the Boss. Same thing I thought about the Guyatone fuzz, sure, but I’m pretty sure the Boss delay will sell itself pretty quick. The Digitech is really nice.

Speaking of after work, today was my last day as a contractor. To celebrate, I took off early (only a half hour) because it’s pretty much the last day that I can. And it’s a long weekend and I wasn’t doing anything. It’s been almost two and a half years since I’ve actually had a job. I suppose the past six months are as good a way as any to ease myself back into the routine.

Why my back is starting to hurt again, I have no idea. You’d think that I’d be more relaxed now than before. But…

np – Elf Power / Nothing’s Going To Happen

Blow Hot, Blow Cold

Are they or aren’t they?

np – Richard Thompson / Mock Tudor

He’s A Chimpanzee. He Doesn’t Feel It.

What can you say?

np – various artists / This Is Where I Belong – Songs Of Ray Davies And The Kinks

Now that’s a season opener. Leafs trounce Pittsburgh 6-0, the top line of Mats, Mogilny and Tucker going medieval on the Pens for 11 points combined. Note to self – move Mogilny up on the draft list! Yeah. Shutout for Belfour… the ‘Belfour = poo’ tag may have to come down if he keeps this up.

Fun recording session tonight. Laura put keyboards down on both ‘Awake Too Long’ and ‘Born On A Train’. Had some fun trying different keyboard patches through various effects pedals. The more instruments we lay on top of ‘Awake’ the less the erratic tempo bothers me. Or I could just be getting used to it. We’re hoping to do some quantizing of the track before we get too much into mixing just to correct some of the more glaring errors. It’d be a shame to ditch the track because the tones and performances (tempo notwithstanding) are really pretty good. ‘Train’ is sounding really good though. Maybe we should just become a cover band that plays covers only we want to hear?

Today totally should have been Friday. I need this week to be done…

np – Superchunk / Indoor Living