the next couple of blogs will probably be really boring.

so we woke up on sunday and no one really knew what was going on. it's alright, we were allowed to be frazzled after SXSW weren't we? mark watched children of men which ruled pretty hard. i'd forgotten how amazing it looked, such a well shot picture. joe played some modern warfare II.


ah-MAZING. after regrouping we worked out we were missing a few select personal items that were at venues in town so after getting ready we hit a few of those spots to try and retrieve those items. one was closed so we had to wait around a while for that. went back to colin's said hi/bye and headed back to the venue to pick up the item. still wasn't open so we went to the driskill and hung for a while before heading back to pick it up again. this time: success!

just to clarify, the sequence of the events mentioned above is dubious. we dilly dallied for a hell of a long time to wait for the venue to open (6pm) and i lost track of what happened before what.

somewhere in our dilly dallying we managed to acquire two dirty thirties (30 can packs of beer) of miller high life (one of which we later donated to lesley & courtney), a bottle of gin (which i recall was thrown out on account of a leaky lid and smelling disgusting) and several boxes worth of fruit juice smoothies (which were incredibly sugary and even the general flavour made us call the taste buds of "healthy" US citizens into question). the drive went for a long time. during it i watched the first episode of band of brothers (killer), the seventh continent (intense michael haneke flick about a family that commits group suicide...yes, it's a sombre film) and started watching black narcissus (really good 40's flick beautifully shot in technicolor...apparently the film that inspired martin scorsese into wanting to make movies for sure). probably listened to some levon helm in there somewhere also. we arrived in denton around midnight and immediately went out with all the d00dz (morgan, lance, lesley, courtney, wes, carly) to waffle house for waffles.

the waffles at waffle house are surprisingly good, and quite waffley. no ice cream though, minus one point. i had a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit (biscuts are english muffins for all you not-in-the-US-ers) and a hash brown as well. it was a darn tootin' feed. carly put freebird on the jukebox among other country tracks (i use the term country here as loosely as i've been using brackets in this blog entry) and we eventually left. came back to the homestead and watched some king of the hill which has ignited a pretty strong passion for it WITHIN MY SOUL. it's really quite funny. family guy was pretty good too, two episodes of that. i was waiting up for tim and eric but everyone wanted to sleep. soz guys.

woke up kinda late and we all headed out to find joe/jord/ro. we found them at mike's cafe and went to a thai restaurant around the corner to eat and meet. it was solid. from there we met up with morgan and headed to her cousin (i think)'s house to check out the area we were lookin' to record in. it turned out to rule pretty hard which was nice. joe/jord/i played chucked the pigskin around in the back yard for a while while some stuff was loaded into the new "studio" and then we headed back around to lesley/courtney's before dinner was to begin. joe and i (and sometimes morgan & lesley) watched the first 2 episodes of the pacific. it's shaping up to be pretty darn tootin. really got to me and made me want to research war, which is what i've started doing. joe's a war buff as is my friend aaron crawford. maybe one day i can converse with them what i've learned about war...maybe one day.

eventually we headed over to the recording house for a "grill" (bbq for all you non-usa-ers). carly grabbed the dirty 30 on the way out.


we got to ze party and i spent a bit of time on facebook but eventually de-hermitted myself and got food/socialized. had some good conversations with different peeps and the meat was delicious. carly tore it up on the rhodes at one point.


move over herbie hancock!

eventually we got tired/bored and headed back to lesley/courtney's house for king of the hill which was excellent once again. desire to sleep took over and so we indulged. woke up feeling gross but eventually shook it off. jon left back to australia today so we said our goodbyes. i watched kurosawa's rashomon (in honour of the 100th anniversary of his birth) and some of a WW2 doco that had too much music. went for an hour long walk around the burbs and got some tostitos dip and tortilla chips. relaxed again and now i'm working my way through bob dylan's discography. i think we're sussing a family dinner tonight.

catch.