Here I am in Atlanta. For two days we had no running water, for two weeks we had no internet and we still have no furniture downstairs (we do have beds) and won’t for another few weeks… but so far the setting beats the sub-suburbs of Nashville by a lot. I’m two streets over from Smith’s Old Bar, four minutes from 10 High and about six minutes from Little Five Points where I ran into Jellyfish’s bass player Tim Smith the other day (I was there for the World Party show, which was really quite good – met Karl Wallinger as well). I also found an Indian restaurant this evening that made my eyes water – not because it was hot but because it was just about the best thing I’ve ever tasted.
I have a lot of work to do to the basement to get it ready for recording but it will be a fun process. I have a few ideas for recording but ya know, I did just put out two CDs in two months. Oh? Did I forget to mention that the new fishremover CD is out? There’s a fishremover myspace page if you want to go check it out. I don’t remember the address off the top of my head, but I’m sure that it’s myspace.com/fishremover or something very much like that. I still play many if not most of the instruments in Fishremover, but you’ll see a VERY different side of me than you usually see, partially because I am not the main songwriter. So in light of all the CD releases, it’s finally time to focus more on playing gigs than recording. I’ll take my time with the studio.
I’m enjoying taking my time since I moved, since the pace all around me has sped up. I take the kid to the park every day (where children and moms regularly ask if I’m a rock star), drink thick beer on the back porch every night, read good books and become more efficient at flooding the engine of my scooter (hint, leave the choke on for a full minute after cranking it).
So if anyone would like to get me off my ass by booking some shows for me and finding new bandmates, that’d be great. Otherwise this southern humidity might ensure that I never get anything done ever again.
