From Brighton Beach To Santa Monica

The Clientele are one of the best bands out right now. Their last two albums ("Strange Geometry" and "God Save The Clientele")have been nothing short of perfect. I say this as a weary old man, quite crabby and impressed by very little these days.

They have a new one coming out next month and they are streaming the whole thing right now at the link below. Give it a listen, I'm excited. The third track, "Harvest Time", is vintage Clientele: Alasdair MacLean's haunting English drone cooing over lush, reverbed out single coil guitar and an airy snare-ride rhythm section. Reminds me a bit of a song I wrote called "summertime", but that is neither here nor there.


http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=628#

Beachwood Park

This is for Alec, a man after my own heart.

The Fall is starting, it hurts me. The world is dying you know. People that I really like are coming back to Seattle. The Mopes are recording on Saturday and have a bunch of new songs. We're really good. I don't mind saying it, I think its pretty true. We're playing sunday in Beltown, I forget where.

I'm just about to a place in my life where I can be myself with every single person I know. Some people I might hold things back from, but rarely do I find myself wearing a mask for someone else. (It hasn't always been like this you know, I used to be a lot of different people. Most of them weren't me anyway, which is good because they weren't people I'd like to know.) I think this is due more to the great people I have in my life than anything else. Leaving my life in California is also a big part of it.

I will try to write in this more.