"Everyone is cool now, there's no distinction...it's an alcholoic themepark!"

Thanks to the efforts of Peter Saintface, last night marked official end of recording of EXIT STRATEGIES. To say I am relieved and excited would be an understatement. I arrived at the studio late because of a birthday dinner with my now 19 year old cousin (who is staying with Irene and I this weekend) and upon my arrival Brandt had already recorded Peter's verses for CLEAN UP. Talk about progress, and the vocals are massive! This was one of the smoothest recording sessions I have ever been a part of. Honestly, there's not much to report. He recorded, was dead on, gave us a ton to work with and then we took some photos and called it a day. Of course our usual post recording discussions ensued. Topics included Peter's run in with the Strokes the night before, movies (and his strong views on Star Wars), and life in New York City. Lots of laughs, especially when Peter gets worked up about things like song titles (he thinks his lyrics for CLEAN UP are better suited to the title EXIST and vice versa), Interpol, and his adventures on the lower east side (which the above quote comes from thanks to Peter).

Consider this my public thank you to Peter for really coming through for us and my formal request to him to sing at least half the next record....PLEASE! (he probably just changed his phone number).

In other news, E-mails and S-mails are being furiously exchanged around the world as my next band project gets off the ground. All will be revealed...eventually. It's not the aggression reunion in Boston or Commack for that matter. Also, I would like to publically apologize to Charles for not being able to make his party yesterday as the recording session and my houseguest cousin kept us from attending. No one wants to meet the mysterious Charles more than Peter Saintface, who has to keep hearing and hearing about his massive bassery nonstop. Been dying to say bassery...

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