I thought I’d give my buddy Ted a call and we’d hit the town on Friday night, take a break from the early morning blog thing and be hungover instead. Note to Ted: do not bring your skateboard with you if you want to go to the top of the Gansevoort Hotel. At least dude was nice enough about not letting us through. I’m beginning to understand Brooklyn a little more every day. Can’t even get a drink without some red tape and a tie.

We ended up at the lamest bar in the world where the bartenders fucking shout along with the songs and dance on the bar. It’s the faux dive bar equivalent to Applebees, where concepts like “fun” and “rock n roll” are deep fried and tamed beyond recognition. We ended up at a tourist trap about 5 blocks from my apartment. I have this feeling that this entire city is turning into a kind of amusement park ride and all the assholes that live here are part of it. I mean, if cigarettes are $13 a pack and I’m willing to pay that without going completely insane, then I must be some kind of idiot right? 

Woke up destroyed. My email had a pic of me taken by another friend who came out laying on my bathroom floor. It’s all or nothing over here… It’s also why I don’t like to drink while on the road touring, cause when I get that taste I’m a freight train. I won’t post it here. Not my best moment. 

This song I wrote while listening to a lot of Fever Ray. If you don’t know them, you should. It’s pretty slow, also has bass guitar which we no longer have so there’s not much chance we’ll do it live. I suppose I could program something though. Either way, I think it came out pretty well;) It’s called Dead Ahead and you can right click and download it HERE.

Cheers big ears
Tony