13 July 2008
I'm in Madrid working with Zeno and The Stoics, after a holiday in Copenhagen watching Leonard Cohen with the ever delightful Sarah Maguire. The Zeno and the Stoics record is turning out amazing, and I am damn happy about that. The Mikkel Glasser record i was working on in Copenhagen is nearly done, and its on the way to being a very unique and fabulous record as well. Back in Berlin, I have been negotiating with Erik Laser on a new way to promote my own music and productions thru a website called GORDOTRONIC. The plans are in the baby stages.... but maybe it will prove interesting??
Ann Hadlock is in Los Angeles promoting Eve 3000 and playing with a stripped down version of Sirens and Sailors. Jordi and the Satellites from Mallorca, and his other band The Marzipan Man have been rocking round Europa and are scheduled to play at the epic Benicassim festival in Spain next weekend. I am reading the complete works of Allen Ginsberg, and the Motley Crue book called DIRT. they are both very inspiring and highly educational. I just finished a book that really affected me and opened my mind up a few light years wider-- its called OFF THE ROAD by Carolyn Cassady. A very usefull and psychic view of how creativity, madness, relationships, drugs and habitual behaviour bounce off each other in human relationships. A most in depth view of ther BEAT movement and its main protagonists.
Also I am starting to take Alexander Technique lessons in berlin from Meike Strobach.
I recommend it for artists and musicians and those of us who inhabit human bodies in general. Ciao for now, keep writing, and keep the faith in music, a mega-powerful substance.