Archive for April, 2004

My dryer seems to have crapped out, or as my brother in law likes to say, “shit the bed”. I am going to have to get a new one, and I don’t know thing one about them. Anybody have any advice and info for me?

Saturday: Bob and I took the trek up to Dr. Strange Records. I got a handful of records, including a test pressing for The Cheifs LP he is putting out. I also got the new MRR, which I ended up leaving in TGore’s bathroom, thus having nothing to read on the plane, luckily my laptop and DVDs kept me entertained. After we got back, I dropped off Bob at his place and drove over to Lisa Fancher’s house to interview her for the Spontaneous Combustion site. Lisa is the founder and owner of Frontier Records, who put out a bunch of great old punk records and is still going today, most recently putting out a Weirdos record. Lisa was really nice, and she even gave me some old Frontier test pressings for the vault! I left there, picked up Bob, Staci, and Thor and we went to Hollywood Forever cemetary for the Cinespia. They show a movie in the cemetary, against a mosoleum! It is like a drive in without cars, and graves! It was really neat, and the weather was damn near perfect for it. I found it a little hard to hear the movie because we were seated behind the last set of speakers, but I’d gladly go again. They showed Chinatown, which stars a very young Jack Nicholson. It was made by the notorius kid toucher Roman Polanski. I have never seen the film before and from what I could make out it seemed pretty good, but it was hard to follow not being able to hear so good. Thor posted a picture of it on his site, which he graciously let me also post on here.

Sunday: Went for breakfast at Duke’s with Tgore, MomGore, and Russ. I then packed up my stuff, ran over to Rhino Records where I walked out of there empty handed, then had one last In and Out Burger before heading over to the airport to go home. Overall a great trip, and just what I needed to feel better.

SCR-005 (Government Issue 7″) being mastered!

MXV and Richard Simpson, working on SCR-005

The movie at the cemetary! Photo by Jason Defillippo

An old punk rock artifact from the collection of Lisa Fancher

I returned home to the Manor last nite after an uneventful flight home (the best kind of flight). In fact, it was actually a little early! That certainly made up for the shitty, long, late, flight out there last Sunday! I’ll try to break down the trip by days. My NDA doesn’t allow me to talk about what I was doing out there as far as work goes so yr just gonna get the personal stuff.

Monday: Worked, was wiped out tired from not sleeping good, after work, got some Del Taco and just hung out in my hotel room and fell asleep.

Tuesday: After work went down to Hollywood, picked up Bob, Thor, and Staci, and had some fine dining at Pink’s, then did some shopping at Amoeba. I got a couple Buzzcocks 7″s cheap, 2 Neurosis live CDs, and the Sex Pistols “sexbox” 3cd box set. Not a bad haul, but no sweet vinyl finds.

Wednesday: Work, Korean BBQ with the people I was working with. We must have eaten 2 full cows, we ordered so much. It was a TON of fun.

Thursday: After work, returned the work rental car and got my own, cheaper model for the weekend since I was now footing the bill. Drove down to Hollywood to drop my stuff off at TGore’s (my home away from home), picked up Bob and Thor, ate at In and Out Burger, then went to the pool hall for some pool, and serums. I hadn’t drank in like 2 months, and got drunk rather quickly. My pool skills have waned too, not that I had many to begin with, but I’m not used to the larger sized tables.

Friday: Met up with Doug Moody over at Richard Simpson Mastering. I got the GI record mastered (the next Spontaneous Combustion Records release!) and took some pix of the process. I’ll post them up here when I can pull them off the camera. After that, I ate lunch with Doug and went over some stuff for the upcoming Mystic Records releases we are working on. Friday nite I went to see Hellboy wtih Bob, Staci, and Thor. It was a really good movie, well worth the money and time. I also hit Amoeba again and got a few DVDs and a couple more records.

I’ll post the rest, along with the pix, hopefully tonite. I had a great week, both with the work stuff and the fun stuff, though I am also glad to be back home.

Out in lovely Los Angeles, my home away from home. I’m here for work, and a little pleasure too. After today’s work was complete I drove down to Hollywood to pick up Bob, Thor, and Staci and we went to eat dinner at Pinks, then over to spend our hard earned $ at Amoeba. I actually bought some CDs, including the Sex Pistols box set and a couple live Neurosis CDs. The only vinyl I found was a CH3 album on Lone Wolf Records, and 3 Buzzcocks 7″s that I didn’t have and were a very fair price. So far I have eaten at all 3 of my favorite places one time each, but those numbers will go up by the end of my trip for sure.

Yesterday, in the span of about 6 hours, I ate at my two favorite places on earth; Potbellys and In and Out Burger! It doesn’t get much better than that.

Yesterday when I got home from work, I opened my mailbox and found a package inside there, it was marked from Potbellys. I opened it up to find a free t-shirt and not one, but TWO coupons for a free sandwich, and a nice letter! This further cements the evidence that Potbellys is the best place to eat on planet earth! That made my whole day.

I’m scrambling to try and get my label art done for the GI record, and a layout done for the next Mystic Records release by the end of the week before I leave! I’m not sure I’ll be able to pull it off unfortunately.