I was re-organizing my CD collection (which has become pitiful after years of moving and losing things), and found a ton of old cassettes buried in the mess. I spent the last two days giving some of them a cursory listen, and I was trapped in a time warp. I also forgot just how much Jen and I wrote for Fan The Fury. Don't particularly dig going backwards for songs on future recordings, but some of them might be worth bringing back from the grave. Totally forgot about this one unfinished tune with the working title "Take It Back" that survived as far as a handful of rehearsals and was that close to making on the album, but... I have no clue what happened, actually. There was another demo of an extra middle section in Hard Up In The 2000s that we thankfully scrapped. I think one of my favorite sequences on the tape is my first demo of You Got Me Wrong being immediately followed by Jen's demo of You Got Me Wrong with some verses.

This also begs the question "What the hell were you guys doing using a tape recorder after 2001?"

That's just Fan The Fury, though. There were loads of songs from as far back as 1998 recording in her parents' converted garage in Coral Gables. Nutso. I can't believe we're still doing this. But then again, I can. Because we're either monumentally awesome or monumentally stupid. Or fucking mental. (Probably a little from columns A, B, & C.) There was one from 2001 called Dance Real Slow which we did rehearse for a few months, possibly played life a few times, but stopped playing when we realized it was basically Late Last Nite. (In all fairness, Dance Real Slow was there first.)

Had rehearsal yesterday for the Paradise show on Saturday (HINT) and it's sounding great. Highlight of my day was getting two bags of chips from a vending machine after paying for one.

Good things happen to those who bang their fist on vending machines while yelling "You've got to be fucking kidding me!"

Henry

PS... Jen just emailed me an article that says coffee helps fight Alzheimer's. I'ma go fight my already fast-progressing mental deterioration.

Currently listening to:
The Sandbox
on WFNX