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June 01, 2005

LOSING CONCENTRATION

Its been pretty hard to keep my concentration going this week. The lure of the sandy beaches and tropical waters have been seeping into my brain at every opportunity. But despite day-dreaming about diving and finding sunken treasure, I have managed to do some work - the week so far has been all about writing. I have been working with different people each day and have come up with some cool stuff. Tonight, Jon and I are working with Jed Leiber in the Sunset Marquis Studios, beginning to look at lyric and melody for the tune that we have co-written together. I'm excited to see what Jon comes up with - and its always a blast working at Jeds place. Nice vibe, lots of cool toys and gadgets, and the place serves up a mean Shrimp Cocktail!!

Tomorrow looks to be a good day as well. Mike Clink and I are booked in at a studio out of town, to begin mixing the first two tracks from the Camp Freddy album. After all this time, we are finally starting to mix!! Patience IS a virtue, after all!! So listen in to CFR this weekend, because if all goes well, we will be spinning those tracks (thats a World Exclusive, right??!!) on the show.

As well as the studio/creative stuff, I am studying for the second part of my PADI Open Water Dive Certification, learning five pages of sides for an audition I have tomorrow (DONT ask!!!) and trying to focus on the tasks in hand, instead of drifting away in my head, to an empty white sand beach and crystal blue water!! Hmmm ..... not doing a very good job, it seems!

OK - let me see .....

D-Wez - Yeah, we definately get requests. And we nearly always say yes. Its an honor to have people ask to be involved in something that we have so much fun with .....oh, and congrats on the upright peeing thing. Huge moment!!

Ylais - Doubt if Slash even knows this blog exists!! But if he does, and he's reading this ....."Love ya, Slash!!" And I will see ubout Teenage Kicks for this weekends show.

Laurie - Ikeaman!! Thats funny. I have ordered my cape from Superheros.com, and I believe a workman friend of mine can supply me with an Allen Key. Now excuse me while I fly off to rescue some poor, unsuspecting DIY enthusiast from four hours of self-assembly!

Bonita - I dont watch the DIY tv shows, but I had to ban Jen from watching them. I would get home from a tour or a weekend working away, and find the bathroom painted blood red, or some shelving unit suspended from the ceiling!!

Cori - My Dad has done White Water Rafting, and says its amazing. I actually tried to do it on holiday in the Caribbean one time, but it was back in my 'chemical haze' and it was pretty obvious to the guys running the thing, that I shouldnt be allowed on the raft!! Nuff said!

Tina - God, I hate that pic on E-Bay. Its weird seeing pics for sale on there. I cant see anyone buying one, except maybe my Auntie or someone!!

Jezi - The underwater camera thing will be a must-have. I have done the underwater photography thing already, and you get some cool shots. I will invest when I am there, and get the ....'and here's me with a 22ft Great White Shark!' pic.

Danielle - I dont know when Freddy will do another public show, but I promise that we will make it an all-ages show. Hopefully we will do one at least in LA this summer.

Jay - I was playing through a couple of Gibson combo amps. You didnt really get the complete picture of what the guitar can do. I had three strings going to a clean sound with chorus and delay, and three strings going to an overdriven sound. And my hair sucked!!!

Pauline - NO!! Dont encourage them all. A full on Billy Morrison domestic photo series ....... enough already!!

Brett - No surfing for me, mate. Its all about what's under the water that gets me interested. You surfer guys are way too fit and talented!! Scuba just means you float around and breath! Way easier.

So thats it from me today. I will update on Saturday, before we go on vacation. The rest of the week is too busy, and I need to try and concentrate - have a great few days, thank you to all of you who post and read, and I will see y'all at the weekend.

Peace

Billy

Posted by vivelerock at June 1, 2005 11:48 AM

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