Hammer Mill Days

A little louder. Little louder still. Forget headroom! We like our albums LOUD. Turn it up just as LOUD as you can. What? Leave the room? In the middle of a mix? Okay, well that 's discouraging. Here we are at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, our adopted home in upstate New York, mixing our ... I mean, cousin Rick's new album, Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick , and I'm just discovering now that I am a lousy engineer. Who know (aside from everyone who listens to my work)? Thank the god of your choice that I have Matt Perry to work with, a.k.a. "Mr. Ears" himself. No, that's not because he wears Spock-like ear extensions. I'm not saying he doesn't, mind you ... I'm just saying that's not the reason for the moniker. Though after being summarily ejected from our mixing session due to excessive loudness, I'm thinking about calling him "Mr. Mouth" from now on. Not sure how Matt can mix an album with his ears ringing, having ...

A lot of campaign noise this week. The various cable networks are completely possessed by the elections at this point. So.... I'll try to talk about something other than the presidential race this week, just to give you a break. Let's see how far I get. To bomb or not to bomb. This week an old acquaintance posted an image on Facebook of Benjamin Netanyahu holding up that cartoon-like image of a bomb with a lit fuse, with the hilarious comment, "Apparently Iran is run by Boris Badinoff". What's not funny is that we're still talking about this, without considering the consequences, once again. Netanyahu is channeling Bush/Cheney 2003, talking about the most dangerous regimes gaining possession of the most destructive weapons. We have seen this movie before, folks. If Bibi wants war, let him be at the head of the line. Another volunteer for the front! Boston Klan rally. I'm sure some of you saw that group of senate staffers from Scott Brown's office...