Music

I’m about two hours away from LAX still, somewhere around 36,000 feet. I’m thinking we’re somewhere over Arkansas. It barren and dusty below, save for these huge green irrigation circles. After passing through some towering, billowing, pure-white thundercloads, we’ve settled into quieter skies. The interior of the plane, however, is not so quiet, as a…

I interviewed Aimee Mann yesterday. She and her husband Michael Penn are my songwriting heroes, so it was a thrill. Of course, I like to think that we connected over my insightful questions, but I was probably just another press outlet. Her new CD, “Lost In Space”, is another terribly accomplished piece of work, equally…

Just rode my bike up from Control One Studios on 23d Street. Kevin and I got even more done than we planned, so the “Summer’s Gone” remix CD’s gonna’ have even more goodies on it than expected. That is, assuming it sounds as good sober as it did when we recorded it all… I tracked…

Just in from the Control One Studios. Just in from a drunken cab ride through the heart of midtown: past drag queens crossing 23d Street (as “American Girls” played on my minidisc), past the Empire State building (white tonight), up 10th Avenue and the Lincoln Tunnel — my favorite view of Time’s Square — through…

Avalon, NJ, was locked in a thick fog when I looked out my window this morning. I could hear the waves crashing across the street, but couldn’t see a thing. I decided to get out of bed — I could always sleep on the bus ride from Atlantic City to New York — and get…

The hip’s no better, so I went to my orthopedist today. He said it’s gonna’ be another week or more of dressing, re-dressing, and debriding (gettin’ the gunk out) before I’m left with a scar that should resemble one left by a massive skin graft. And no running until further notice. Lucky me. So if…