Natural Forces

Hello from Los Angeles, where I've been for the last 5 days or so and will be here until my cousin Josh's wedding in October. When it's said and done I'll have been in NY a total of 5 days in September. I miss it. But on the flipside, you know how antsy I get when I'm not on a plane or in another place after a long period.

The end of the summer was frustrating for several reasons. A. Work slows down and that makes me pissy and B. I didn't have a nephew around to keep me from thinking about point A. Luckily, we got the hell out of dodge for a bit before I went too nuts...

Summer came to a quiet end, but Fall began with me and the Mrs. flying 13 hours west to spend a week in Maui. Our friends were getting married there so we turned it into a nice little trip. We relaxed, swam, ate well, slept a lot, watched Nash Bridges, snorkled, found mint condition classic Will Eisner books (seriously) and just took it easy. Beautiful place and it was great seeing Jim and Carla finally make it legal. They also have the most adorable kids and we got to meet a lot of cool people. And I golfed. Yes. More like "golfed". Anyway, I lovely mini vacation that certainly was relaxing and fun.

I'm happy to report that this did lead to some musical progress where, literally before leaving for the Left Coast, your hero finished his long awaited vocals for the Hypefactor album. I believe I am finally done for this record and now there are some dubs and then the mix. It already sounds fucking great so I'm pretty excited. I've been listening to it quite a bit. This is the one. We have some stuff up on the myspace.com/hypefactor which is just the teaser kinda thing. Just a taste. MUCH MORE to come.

Now here in LA, it's the usual chaos. Vik's working like a maniac, so I am handling my usual dog walking/care responsibilities, which I have gotten much better at. The dog is awesome and we saw our Rabbit friend finally (twice tonight). Had a lovely sushi dinner with Dr. Fury last night, who I will be seeing again next week (WITH his wife and kids) and hoping to see The family cramp, milano mouth, and Bergoch before I go back. Tonight, kyle and I went to the Grove to see JENNIFER'S BODY which was pretty good. I'm not really on the whole Megan Fox thing, but she was right for the role, which had clever writing but so so execution at times. However, Adam Brody was enjoyable but Amy Sedaris is wasted in it.

Anyhow, lots on the plate, more work here, tons of shit to do, but also after 10 years, I will see the Manic Street Preachers here for the first time and then attend a benefit gig for Greg Dulli's bassist Scott Ford. Should be fun. When I get back to NY, I will finally cap off seeing EVERY fave band I have loved in my life by seeing Gavin Friday for the first time ever. That is going to be fucking awesome and a truly memorable evening.

My computer's hard drive bit the dust before I went to Hawaii, so I sent it and now have a nice working machine. I have decided to kill certain things though, like LAST FM, so you won't be able to track what I am listening to, but I am going to try and be more consistent in updating that stuff. Right now I am obsessively listening to the new Cerati, which ended up being the soundtrack to my summer and now I am really into Bernard Sumner's new band BAD LT, but I am not 100% sold on it yet. I definitely like it though! A lot. I'm anxiously awaiting albums from Ian Brown and Editors, both of which are very promising.

Anyhow, hopefully this catches us up a bit. Any questions, you know how to find me!

F