Gee whiz, back in cyberspace... my apologies to the all of the (four) people who have griped that I haven't updated my website in for-fucking-ever. My intent for this journal was just to document my life on the road, and when I moved back to NY, it seemed to me like it was over. But I guess not. I'm back on the road, staying at my pal Alex's house in Portland, and I'm doing a little ten day trip on the west coast, so I'm going to write as much as I can while I'm out on this stint. I just didn't want to become another one of those dickholes on the web documenting every little banal aspect of their day to day lives. Example: "I pooped today. Boy, was it stinky! And brown. You know, I'm really starting to get into the Cure." And so on... I'll try to lead a more interesting life, just in case someone's reading.
What I've Done In the Last Year Since I Wrote Anything by Mishka Shubaly
Okay, so I'm not going to give you highlights for the last year, I'll just give you the recent news. I've been working my ass off on a new record with producer Jay Braun. He and I did So Long together a couple of years ago and we found out that we shared similar opinions on noise on pretty songs and pretty sounds on noisy songs. We have eleven tracks recorded and about four of 'em mixed. Jay, if you're listening, thanks a ton for ruining your life for a month to make my record sound great. I owe you a hooker.
I turned the rough mixes of the four songs we've got done into Alex Steininger, big cheese at In Music We Trust (home of I Can Lick Any Son Of A Bitch in the House) and he's interested in putting out the record. Now, in the words of Richard Marx "don't mean nothing till you sign it on the dotted line," but I still feel really good and really relieved about it all. This is the one thing I've been pushing for since I quit Luxx two years ago. It's been fucking exhausting, but shit, if it's going to get my music out to folks and make me able to tour without losing my ass, then it was fucking worth it.