Maybe an album title. Or Let it Burn, or Trading Scars.

Speaking of albums, been doing a lot of woodshedding.
Here's a list of tracks ready to go for the next session...

> Bad Luck, Bad Living & Bad Decisions
> Hold Fast
> Here I am
> I won't be Back
> 2AM Drunken Phone Call
> Straight for Once
> Let it Burn
> Trading Scars

'Course I'm in Chicago and Mike and Steve are back East
and haven't heard half of these. Need to fix that.


Some lyric sheets I scanned down the bottom of this, if they attach
like I want them to. They're partial songs, some of the rest of the
ideas were done with tape rolling or on other pieces of paper. They
look like a 3rd grader wrote them after drinking a 2 liter bottle
of Jolt! Cola. Or maybe it was the Darvo's and red wine.
I don't remember.
 

Made carnitas with chili verde from scratch tonight.
Pork so perfectly cooked that you could pull it apart
just by thinking of forking it.

Which reminds me of someone.

Smelled amazing, cooked for 2 hours, almost too salty
to eat. And I'm a salt guy. I know where I fucked up though.

I will prevail.

Come with us to forests of azure.

Went to Guitar Center and killed a few hours this afternoon.
Fender's new "Worn" Strats are hit or miss but I found a
couple that played really great. I don't use a Strat anymore,
but if I did I'd buy one of these. I don't give a shit about
the relic finish, it's the feel and the thin nitro cellulose
finish that does it, and some of these do it.

Partial iPod playlist from earlier today driving around.
I just picked up my first iPod, a Touch:

R.E.M.  (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Time Life 10cc - The Things We Do For Love
John Doe A Little More Time
The Who Another Tricky Day
Time Life Atlanta Rhythm Section - So In To You
Steely Dan Babylon Sisters
Jeff Beck Behind the Veil (Live)
Paul Westerberg Best Thing That Never Happened
Van Halen Black And Blue
Bragg & Wilco California Stars
Black Crowes Could I've Been So Blind
Rush  Distant Early Warning
INXS  Don't Change
Neil Young Don't Let it Bring You Down
Paul Westerberg Dyslexic Heart
Paul Westerberg Eyes Like Sparks
Soundgarden Fell On Black Days
Bob Seger Fire Lake
B Springsteen Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Jeff Beck Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Jon Butcher Goodbye Saving Grace
R.L. Burnside Got Messed Up
CCR  Green River
Beatles, The Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Beatles, The Here Comes The Sun
David Gilmour I Can't Breathe Anymore
Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Van Halen I'll Wait
John Lennon I'm Losing You
The Beatles In My Life
John Doe Thing Kissing
Los Lobos La Playa
Jon Butcher Life Takes A Life
Adrian Belew Life Without A Cage
U2  Like A Song
Rush  Limelight
Paul McCartney Listen To What The Man Said
CCR  Lodi
Paul Westerberg Lookin' Out Forever
Whitesnake Love Ain't No Stranger
Sounds of 70's Love Will Find A Way
Paul Westerberg Making Me Go
Genesis  Man on the Corner
Genesis  Misunderstanding
Pretenders Mystery Achievement
Jeff Beck Nadia (Live)
Rush Natural Science
Replacements Never Mind
Genesis  No Reply at All
Neil Young Oh, Lonesome Me
Sounds of 70's On And On
Hall & Oates One On One
Tom Verlaine One Time At Sundown
Neil Young Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Time Life Peter Frampton - I'm In You
Midnight Oil Power & The Passion
R.E.M.  Pretty Persuasion
R.E.M.  Radio Free Europe
Springsteen Radio Nowhere
David Gilmour Raise My Rent
Michael Jackson Rock With You
Soul Asylum Runaway Train
Hall & Oates Sara Smile
Agent Orange Say It Isn't True
Aerosmith Seasons Of Wither
Sounds of 70's Sentimental Lady
Eddie Money SHAKIN'
CCR  Sinister Purpose
Whitesnake Slow An' Easy
The Police Spirits In The Material World
Rainbow  Stone Cold
Rush  Subdivisions
Van Halen Summer Nights
Rolling Stones Sway
Squeeze  Tempted
Bee Gees  How Deep Is Your Love
DOORS  The Ghost Song
John Doe The Golden State
INXS  The One Thing
Steve Earle The Revolution Starts now
David Gilmour There's No Way Out Of Here
Rush  Tom Sawyer
CCR  Tombstone Shadow
AC/DC  Touch Too Much
Genesis  Turn It on Again
Los Lobos Viking
Paul Westerberg Waiting For Somebody
Rolling Stones Waiting On A Friend
AC/DC  Walk All Over You
John Lennon Watching The Wheels
Bob Seger We've Got Tonite
Beat Farmers What I Mean to Say
INXS  What You Need
Marvin Gaye What's Going On
Paul Weller Wild Wood (live)
The Beatles You Won't See Me

As I write this Bill Laswell’s Method of Defiance is
on the stereo. I have a setup on an Ikea desk I bought as follows…

Tascam 2488 Neo 24 track digital recorder, Behringer V-Amp pro,
M-Audio Tampa microphone preamp, Yamaha REV100, ART Tube Pac
mic preamp, a pair of Alesis Point Seven monitors, a little
Zoom H2 for quick sketches, my pc, monitor, couple of 1tb
external hard drives and a beer.

I had a pair of Bose 301’s on
speaker stands in here, but I actually prefer the accuracy of
the Alesis monitors, not just for mixing but for listening to
recorded music from my pc/iPod.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

I am sitting in the sweet spot between the monitors listening
to this ear candy. There was an article in a 1956 issue of
“Escapade” men's magazine that asked and tried to answer the
question “Can jazz be progressive?”

I know this not because Mike let me borrow his personal copy,
but because I was looking up a little known actress from just two
of Russ Meyer’s movies, “Common Law Cabin” and “Good Morning…
and Goodbye!”.

Her screen name was “Alaina Capri”, and that was the extent
of her career. She later went on to tour Japan in an all girl
band called The Loved Ones (there’s nothing new under the sun,
kiddies) and finally settled down to become a teacher, living
in constant dread of her sordid past catching up with her.

Well don’t we all, to one extent or the other…

She was Miss Muscle Beach at the age of 16 in 1956. 
That’s something only one person can ever say.

Pretty cool.

Vamos a la playa.

-JM