Had a wonderful, busy weekend. Spent most of the day recording another new song with Dan on Friday. It's another tune that was floating around in some form since the writing session for Fan The Fury, but Jen and I never finished it for whatever reason. We gave it a new coat of paint and some new lyrics, and it's coming out very well. Hell, all the songs are coming out very well. We're even looking forward to whatever's going to come out after this.

We've got one (two?) more songs to go on this, hoping to wrap that up before we leave for tour. Have to find some time to work on some string arrangements before then. That's probably not going to happen.

Saturday, two really good friends of ours (finally!) tied the knot. I can be a heartless cynic when it comes to certain traditions, but the ceremony was very sweet and genuine (enough for me to keep inappropriate comments to a bare minimum). But yea, the whole thing was just fantastic. There was coffee, tea, and pastries. There were kilts. There was a Wall-E and Eva bride and groom on display. There were kilts. There were crying relatives. We were up partying at their place till five in the morning. Still gladly paying for it now, of course. Nothing but good wishes to Beca and Martin from Camp Aloud.

Could use a few days to rest up, but with CMJ and then the tour around the corner it doesn't look like that's happening. My body hurts.

Henry

(Times are totally approximate)

12:05am
End of night. Thanks to everyone for coming by!

11:15pm - 12:05am
DJ set 5 (Henry):

(Henry and Jen throw caution to the wind and play four new Aloud songs.)
Rain — The Beatles (by request)
Helter Skelter (mono) — The Beatles
Ultra Violet (Light My Way) — U2
Kids — MGMT
Honey Pie (by request) — The Beatles
1234 — Feist
In the Backseat — The Arcade Fire

11:10pm
Rock Tour Episode #2 f. The Pill, The New Collisions

10:47pm - 11:10pm
DJ set 4 (Jen):
Parklife — Blur
Son of Sam — Elliot Smith
Twist and Shout — The Beatles
Success — Iggy Pop
Lola — The Kinks
Club Foot — Kasabian
The Heinrich Maneuver — Interpol

10:45pm
Encore showing of "You Got Me Wrong" video.

10:30pm-10:45pm
DJ set 3 (cont'd)
I Feel it All — Feist
You Don't Really Love Me — Cyanide Valentine
The Bridge I Burned — Elvis Costello
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You — Bob Dylan

10:30pm
Raffle fail x2!

10:20pm
Rock Tour Episode #4 show, f. The Luxury and Aloud

10:00pm
DJ set 3 (Henry):

No Matter What — Badfinger
Walls (Circus) — Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
(Henry surreptitiously plays an early mix of a new Aloud song. Nobody notices, and he laughs.)

9:45pm
Rock Tour Episode #1 shown, f. The Motion Sick, Fatal Flaw, Ryan's Smashing Life

9:05pm-9:40pm
DJ set 2 (Jen):

Taxman — The Beatles
Pump It Up — Elvis Costello
Suffragette City — David Bowie
Layla — Derek & the Dominoes
Bang Bang, You're Dead — Dirty Pretty Things
Once in a Lifetime — Talking Heads
The World Has Turned and Left Me Here — Weezer
Spanish Bombs — The Clash
Maps — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Reptilia — The Strokes
Geraldine — Glasvegas
Herculean — The Good, The Bad, and The Queen

9:00pm
"You Got Me Wrong" video premiere

8:00pm - 9:00pm
DJ set 1 (Henry):

This is Radio Clash — The Clash
Break Me Gently — Doves
I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) — Stevie Wonder
Fake Tales of San Francisco — Arctic Monkeys
Underdog — Kasabian
Aquaman's Lament — The Motion Sick
Kill To Know — Amy Miles
The Rat — Walkmen
Strange Apparition — Beck
Jukebox Queen — Baby Strange
Monkey Wrench — Foo Fighters
Keep the Car Running — Arcade Fire
Room Starts Spinning — Classic Ruins
Whole Wide World — Wreckless Eric
I Am The Atom Bomb (Atomic Age) — Bon Savants

On the way back from TT's right now. Show was fucking awesome. Our first show with Charles and Tommy backing us, and they performed admirably. Debuted a new song, Exile in the Night. Hopefully I didn't fuck it up too much.

Really enjoyed The Motion Sick's new stuff a lot, and Sidewalk Driver is fucking amazing. Can't wait to give their new album a listen. Played pool later with some dudes named James and Brendan along with Travis and... well Matt wasn't actually playing pool, but he was yelling when shots were made, so I'll allow it. (Travis won.)

Had a great convo with Jim from Mercy James Gang as well about Beatles mono mixes (and other such awesomery). It was a good conversation I really enjoyed.

Will leave you all now. Typing on not-a-smartphone does not get less annoying with time.

In a bit.

Henry's phone

Listening to:
The Colour and the Shape
by The Foo Fighters