Yuk Bon

best Saturday ever? in the last 24 hours, I have:

• played a show with olde friendes (see previous entry)
• seen the new harry potter movie (shut up)
• gotten drunk dialed by saltdog again at 4 in the afternoon, who hung up on me while telling his girl “hey you wanna have hogwarts sex? i got my magic wand…”
• gone to a morrissey show with laura squirt; despite getting lost (twice) and the long ass drive it was so fucking worth it. They played “please please please let me get what i want” and “the boy with the thorn in his side” and “girlfriend in a coma”. also, it was like a guitar-porn orgy up there: gretsch’s, tele’s (fat and classic), hollowbodies, a firebird (during “how soon is now?”), some custom strat-style thing with a hole in the headstock (maybe alternate tuning system? boz boorer beat the fuck out of it. heard two new songs “all you need is me” and “that’s how people grow up” which were great and had a lot of really dry humor.
• speaking of the show, i walked in and stood in the aisle for like 2 seconds and got a slap on the arm: it was nelly and savina (and savina’s Mr, first i meet him) who I haven’t seen in forever and ever (literally: savi now has 2 kids and last i saw her she was preggers with the first. who is now 7 years old. nelly is still crazy. loveable, sweet, still hunched over and a lot more tattoo’d, but crazy as fuck.)
• long phone convo and plans to hang tomorrow with litltrublgrl

Best part of the moz show: everyone, absolutely everyone in the audience singing along to “girlfriend in a coma”. A sense of maybe not unity but a general “yeah we’re all here and having fun”. Of course, 30 minutes later the boorish drunks started getting annoying…

So The Blackroom broke up and no more band for me. BUT last night I did in fact play with Bunny & Nestor (who is dating the Good Witch, odd bit of synchronicity) and some chick who I promptly forgot her name; apparently she’s primarily a DJ but last night it was 3 laptops and one guitar — me. Bunny did live video loops, Nestor dropped live ambient and the chick dropped a few loops too. Things to remember: the Dm shape on the mid strings, bending. the walking bassline with the stutter strut. the dub line. the high diads+low drop. I wasn’t real happy with the clean guitar sound, wish I hadn’t given Eden those pedals before he left (or at least gotten them back…) oh well, what goes around comes around.

Last night was just a birthday party for Nicole (another DJ), but end of month we’re doing it again to celebrate the film they got into the festival thing that won something or other. You’re invited. Yes, you.