KANYE CALLED!so last weeks blog mentioned i ran into Kanye West at Whole Foods and I gave him a copy of my version of Heartless. well he called and flipped out over it! he loved it so much he offered me 10 zillion dollars to sign with him and make a record. we also went to St. Barts on a private jet this weekend and saved baby dolphins and drank drinks out of coconuts. he mentioned that we, together, can change the world through music. we sang songs with our heads towards the sky it began to rain non-perishable foods from the heavens to help end world hunger. it also rained can openers so you could get the cans open! amazing, i know. the world works in mysterious ways. i'd like to thank fate for brining me and Kanye together. our duets album will drop in early 2010. mark your calendars!
(correction: Kanye didn't call. but hey, we can all dream, right?)
COFFEE GETS ME OFF LIKE PORN
Hi from my heavily caffeinated kitchen. I'm a recent daddy of a new Breville espresso machine and i'm trying hard to perfect my skills. i'm pretty much shaking around the house at all times. but perfections has its costs. i'm pretty sure my coffee grinder (or bean cruncher as an old friend of mine would put it. he also refers to football uniforms as 'costumes.' i'm aware at the unacceptableness of this) isn't grinding/crunching fine enough because my espresso are weak. i like a dry cappuccino with espresso dark like Satan with a few droplets of milk like crying angel's tears. (WTF am i talking about?! i told you i'm way too caffeinated). as of now i haven't perfected this yet in my own kitchen. i'm also really bad at making coffee in a coffee machine. this seems ridiculous to love coffee this much and be such a failure at creating it yourself but that's my life. i'm working on it.
I'M A LONDON BLOKE?so i'm excited to say i might be heading to London to do some music and work. this excites me beyond measure as i haven't been to London town since i was 17. that was a good trip for a number of reasons. remember when you were under aged and you went to Europe and you could drink? you felt like such a bad ass and grown up. funny how something so small can make such a big difference. (what what? ha). i didn't get to do the london tower while i was there either which was a bummer. I was there singing through Europe with a choir. it was pretty awesome.
anywho, there's some amazing music that gets made in the UK and i'd love to take a crack at it. i put the trash in Eurotrash, don't you think? i'll keep you in the loop re those developments. not sure if it would be this year or first of next but its in the pipe line. any MANNblog readers out there in London? lemme know!
VANDERBILT'S HOMECOMINGso i've been in Nashville, again, this past weekend to attend my alma mater's homecoming. it was crazy and awesome. Y'all know i heart Nashville and this was no exception. there was lots of eating, drinking and catching up that happened, to the point of exhaustion. there's only so many times you can tell someone you haven't seen in years what you've been doing in said years away from said person. but i was down to do it. i love my friends and i was happy to see them. we went, also, to the vandy/Georgia game where UGA kicked the shit out of Vandy, per usual. ah, just like the glory days!
it was chilly weather there as well. the report said it was to be 55 but, in fact, it was 45, which is about 30 degrees too cold for my spoiled Southern California ass. but it was perfect football weather. life was good. remember when, in college (or when you were young), the hardest decision you had to make was where you wanted to go for spring break? i miss this time in my life. shit. what happened?! we're old balls. old balls.
here's me and my buddy, mark, at the old sigma nu fraternity house where we use to be cool and stuff. never felt more old then when i walked back through those doors.
i'm back at work in LA now. working on some new songs. playing a small set at the AFTRA singer's union convention tomorrow in LA which is an honor. have NO idea what i'm going to sing but i'll figure it out, i suppose. hope y'all have great weeks!
what do you miss most about being young with no worries?
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