Ah! I just went to Olympia to visit a really good friend who I never met and stay with her family!
It was under the guise of buisness but turned out to be a really nice get away! I was there to kind of talk buisness, Audrey works for a super cool indie label and likes my band GAVIOTAS alot (who doesnt?) and wants to help us attain global domination ;-D
I got there friday night hung out and drank beer! The next morning we got up and headed out to the town of Olympia! We went to a beach area where Audrey and I walked along a dock and checked out crabs and other aquatic sea life very weird to an SF city boy like me. Then we went into a nearby store and she bought edible choclate rocks that really looked like little pebbles! We were gonna shop for seafood there but went to another sho instead.
After checking out an abandoned farmers market, we went to a sea food store with all kinds of critters. We got oysters, muscles, salmon and LIVE CRAB! We got two and they were fighters! I never handled live crabs before...
When we got back I took the crabs out of the back and began taunting Audrey daughter Kirby , she thought it was funny... I hope.
Her husband Steve and I started rubberbanding the crabs pinchers, very fun. Then I thought 'we should kill these things before we eat them!' I always thought it would be way more humane to just shoot a nail through the face and give it a quick death, but apparently shoving them in boiling water is the quickest way to do it, I awlays hated when I saw them do that to crabs and lobster on the Food Channel, but, it's the only way to do it. Steve looked up alternate methods and found some Chineese guy stabbing it in the face a few times then throwing it in a wok. Didn't look very quick so I just did the boiling water thing. Worked fine!
After they cooked I started working on a stock with the crab shells. Her friends came over around 2:30. Mariella and Michael, Mariella works for K records and Michael is her boy toy. Then Slim and his lady Portia came over, everyone was super nice and funny and cool even though there was no talk of buisness or music or anything but, I guess when you work around that all the time, you tend to discuss other things in social situations.
I made a sauce and sauteed the muscles, Steve made these killer burgers with FETTA in it! (sshhhh). We did oysters and Steve made the salmon. It was all very good and almost no-one ate crab which was cool because I made a Crab bisque with the crab and stock (which was labeled 'brains' for the kids).
After everyone left we cleaned up and chilled out. A wonderful day.
Next day Steve took the daughters Kirby and Tuesday to a birthday party and a movie so Audrey and I could talk buisness. She and I went to an awesome woodsy path that led to a beach, where we discussed the future... GAVIOTAS and such. We began laying out a battle plan for world domination!
We went to a resturant called Annie where low tide made the outside smell like a dead condor landed on a bum who shat himself for the last 3 monthes, covered in fish sauce.
The inside was OK so we stayed. I got Clam chowder, caeser salad and fish and chips, Audrey got Shrimp and salad. We made a fully realized plan of how to take over 'da game' which somehow also included acting and writing (funny) but music was of course the main focus. I can't divulge what we talked about but it includes a coo of a not so small Latin American country! Can you guess which one?
We went home later and brain stormed the rest of the night. Audrey is Awesome and her husband Steve is the coolest guy I ever met, his stories and advice were great. He gave me some CD's from his old bands The Stimmies and Decal and I got to hear another group, The Hi-Fives. He recorded that at the old studio I used to work at! (Toast).
Well, we took care of buisness and we have many new tasks to conquer, it will be fun. Audrey drove me to the airport early the next day and we had a teary goodbye (SHUT UP!). I can't wait to visit again, but next time, I'll probably come in a Limo;-D