Progress. Oh yes.
It was early November the last time anything tangible was accomplished on the recording Joel and I came to Los Angeles to make.
Finally, this past weekend we were able to get back together with our extremely busy engineer Graham to do some digital-style organization of everything that we have done so far.
Joel and Graham sort through the sessions at Graham's place.
This makes it possible for us to get started on the additional tracking and production the EP needs. It’s quite a relief to get things moving again after all this time.
As the months drag on, Joel has taken to saying that this project is like a glacier, moving impossibly slow, but also impossible to stop. It really does feel that way.
Moving Like Its a Hobby
No, for those you that may be worried, Joel and I are not moving again, thank goodness. Not right now anyway.
But since we have moved seven times since we moved to L.A. a year and a half ago, I like to share little bit of the chaos of moving constantly when you really don’t want to, but you just have to if you want to stay in Los Angeles and live under a roof.
Joel fixes a broken amp off ebay in the living room of our second place in W. Hollywood. In apartments with few overhead lights and no lamps, we'd often put our photography equipment on double duty.
We were only at our doomed live/work apartment for less than a month, but there is something quite exhausting about moving to a place only to realize you have to get out of there as soon as possible. Once Joel finally got us out of South L.A. and moved us to Santa Monica, he started using the weekends mainly for one activity – sleeping.
The top three photos are Joel living among the boxes at the live/work loft, the bottom is Joel finally relaxing at our new apartment in Santa Monica.
This is the end of this post, but hey, we did a lot more moving than that. More photos of/posts about moving to come, and hopefully a couple more about a certain recording…