december 20th, 2004
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ha! oh look!
i found a picture of david kahne, michael braur and paul mccartney together!
hot diggity dog :)

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heard back from michael braur! yay!
he was the person who mixed "spool forka dish" and i think the last person he worked with was paul mccartney! wow!
i'm really glad he remembered me, although i didn't really think he would forget, but you never know.
he knows how to contact david kahne and will forward my message to him.

kick ass!!

11:33pm

i even emailed mike watt to find jim dunbar.
i wonder if ANYone will email me back?
i feel like it's high school reunion night :)

so far no emails have BOUNCED...so...we'll see!

11:19pm

yep, i do have THEE jim dunbar because his email leads me to mike watt and stuff.
yep!
so..we'll see if he writes back so i can thank him for introducing me to good food!

11:02pm

ok, i may have even found jim dunbar! we'll see :)
i emailed "A" jim dunbar, whether it's "THEE" jim dunbar remains to be seen.

10:49pm

good grief, i even emailed gary kurfirst, my nemisis.
just to , i don't know, see if he was stll alive?
like poking at a corpse to make sure it's really dead?
i have no idea.
it's probably not his active email still, anyway.

my stomache is gurgling.

i wish i didn't need sleep.

 

10:04pm

emailed steven severin.
i wonder what will become of all this emailing tonight?

and ego plum, you in, perhaps?

it's time to make some soup!

9:56pm

emailed twyla tharp and michael braur in search of david kahne.

9:09pm

aaa! i just talked to bobby z or the 1st time in a few years. yay!
thank god he still has the same phone # or i would never be able to track him down.
he is still the same, a bit reserved and also very excited.
we reminisced. long story.
thing is...he is still interested in recorded a new album , if i make it. yes!
so, that is the little extra pat of energy i needed to write new songs this winter :)
but he doesn't know where davis kahne is , so we need to track that guy down.
oh! and funnily enough, i'm going to update his website for the first time in almost a decade.
the last design is what jason made and ir's all outdated information.
bobby should at least have his updated email on his site.
and he knows nothing of meta tages...so...
i'm glad i can help me Z man out.
and now i am pumped to make new music :)

oh, and name of bacchus A&R guy: jim dunbar.

happiness :)

7:46pm

ended up going out to eat at this italian restaurant because i didn't want to chance getting a dumb meal at the new thai place.
good god, our meal was stupidly expensive. but i have to say it was worth it, good for the soul , spirit, body, sense.
LORD, i LOVE good food.
i never used to know how wonderful food could be until i met jason.
i come from a lower middleclass family where we went out to eat maybe 3 times a year, and then it was pizza hut.
food was never important to me, in fact, it seemed like a nuisance to have to eat it , and that was all just as well since i couldn't afford it anyway, so it worked out really well :)
and seriously, since i didn't know what i was missing, i didn't miss it.
i kind of actually am SAD , in a perverse way, that i have discovered the beauty of food because it IS so damn expensive and now, on top of all the other things i want to learn and enjoy, there is FOOD.
thank god the only food i really want to indulge in is very expensive quality food, so therefore THAT stops me from getting fatter.
thank god i have no desire whatsover for fast food or snack foods like doritos and all that.
all the once in awhile i do desire the instant mashed potaoes...god only knows why.

jason's family is the opposite of mine , foodwise.
they are VERY extravagant about food (to me), spening 100 bucks and way over that is almost like no big deal to them. their life almost revolves around food. they eat out almost always. and they really find the good places. and places that are not only quality, but feed you enormous proportions.

i also grew up, since we were poor, in that "clean plate club" . and "think about the starving children in africa" club which made me have terrible anxiety about their ever being too much food on my plate, because if it was on plate, it would be insulting to the entire children of africa and god if i did not eat it all.
so, if i went out to a restaurant where the portions are WAY too big than a person is supposed to it (and still remain healthy), i would have a terrible panic attack.
and so, when i was with jason's family and we would always be going out to eat, i would just FREAK hat i was going to be shamed into not eating everything on my plate.

but they are way more relaxed about it and i realized that no one took offense if i did the doggie bag thing.
seriously, one meal from a restaurant is 2 or 3 meals for me! and so i was finally able to relax.

and since we went to all these amzing restauarants, i was able to discover all this new food.

what REALLY was the beginning of me learning about new food, tho, was, getting signed to my 1st record label , columbia.and i still wear the silver bracelet on my right wrist that they gave me from my birthday from hendry bedel's to remind me of that magical time of my life, even tho they fucked me over in the end, in a way.

my A&R guy (the person who is in charge of you on the label) , i seriosuly can't remember his name nw , which is rather sad. but he was best friends with fIREHOSE, mike watt especially, and mike watt is also good friend with steve mclellen, manager of 1st avenue, the most imnportnat club in minneapolis, where we plated a millio shows.

anway...our A&R guy WAS bacchus. big full belly, big long beard, and i swear to god he had horns.
he brought me to my 1st sushi dining "experience" and also my 1st new yourl city indian food dining "experience"

i must say EXPERIENCE!

this man was bacchus with the full throaty laugh and he would throw his head back and boom "wine! for my friends!"

when we were at the indian restaurant he INSISTED on ordering almost 1 of EVERYTHING from the menu.

my god, i need to find this man again. what an amazing person and i didn't even realize until right this moment what a pivotal and important place he has had in my life! i just need to thank him is all.

he later was fired for being too bacchus like and partaking in too much food and wine and dance and song and notorious for having the hugest dining bills. at least that's what "they say".

anyway...he introduced me, goddamn him, to all the flavours of food! cinnamon with MEAT?
who would have THUNK it?

he even took us to this bar, this really uppity gentleman's bar in NYC. it was all marble and mahoghony with the most regal butler like of all bartenders, and i drank glass after glass of that Courvoisier (i had to google "leon phelps" to find the correct spelling on that) which was $100 a glass! but bacchus didn't even bother to tell me that!

god, i wish i could remember his name! argh.
but we found out at that bar that we both had a fondness for headbutting.
i can headbutt just about anyone on this earth and win.
only 2 people have ever beat me at it.
bacchus was not one of these people.

so, in the middle of this massively posh bar with mohaghony bar stools and rich red leather and marble floors, we decided to have a headbutting match. and we smashed out skulls into one anotehr and bar stols went flying.
and neither one of us could make the other go down.

in retrospect, i think we would have been asked to leave had bacchus not been buying a grand in liquor that night.

and we decided that the deciding factor on who would win would be who had a mark, dent or bruise on their forehead the next day,

bacchus had a HUGE bruise the next day.

i had not even a MARK. ( i am double aries, the ram)

god, what a remarkable time that was.
i wish my body could still process alcohol like that because i don't even remember having that much of a hangover the next day.

that was one of the greatest nights of my life.
it was a perfect night.

you don't know at times like that how perfect it actually was, until later.
i mean, i knew it was a special night and i took it in.

but, ya....just wow. i need to thank that bacchus guy.

oh..mike wattt...i forgot...
man there are so many little arteries in this vein.

so...we played (the blue up?) at 1st ave. we opened for fIREHOSE.
it JUST SO HAPPENED that the A&R guy for columbia was majorly best friends with mike watt.
so destiny collided.
mike watt, bacchus, and steve mclellen, all very huge men...bearded and bacchus and drunk and so happy seeing one another that night...
bacchus guy says to mike watt "so should i sign these girls"
and mike watt says "yes!"

and so...we were signed, because mike watt, punk rock bass player legend gave the go ahead to bacchus , himself.

there is even more to this story, but that is as far as i can write now.

i have lived a good life.

i'll spell chech this later.

anyway....this is the story of how i got to appreciate good food.

 

3:55pm

gonna go out to eat (jason and i) at the place that used to be our fave thai restauraunt but new owners took it over and now it sucks (at least the last time i went there it did). i will give them one more try, because i need vegetables in a major way. i need a veggie stir fry.
all i've been eating lately is ramen and beef and just..uck..i cannot eat that today.
my body is screaming for fresh food and fish and veggies.

i'm super cranky.
i think i just need to eat some fresh food and i think that is the deal with my crankiness. and i haven't eaten anything yet today.

3:49pm

ok, nope, she changed her mind.
no sushi.

roads too icey :(

 

3:40pm

so jason and i are taking the bee out for some sushi.
she almost cancelled and reschduled and i was like, no way man, it's your birthday TODAY!
so i talked her into it.
yay :)
people need to do special things on their birthdays :)
it's just not the same to reschedule.

2:17pm

it is clear to me now, that i must crochet a vintage telephone!

2:08pm

called the fuzzy one and told her of freezing rain. so sad on her birthday for the weather to suck :(
so we might go to a different sushi place. she is calling kiitos to see what she thinks then will call me back.

i am making a bath.

i dreamt that i saw The Names play live.
they are a little known band from the early 80's.
I woke up with their song "discovery" in my head which was better than having john foxx's "dislocation" in my head, which has been stuck in my head now for a week. and now i'm listening to it AGAIN, which is probably why it's stuck there.

fascinating journal entry, i know. just fascinating!

 

 

1:57pm

today is a lot warmer at 23 degrees. but light freezing drizzle has made the roads really dangerous and jason even turned around and come home today snd worked from home because the roads were that icy.

so fuzzy if u see this is think we should pick a sushi place that is closer to us:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5146143.html

3:33am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUZZYBUMBLEBEE!

you make my world a happier place!

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the wind is rattling my windows so hard i don't know how i'm going to sleep!

later on today (5pm) i go eat sushi with my fuzzybee :)
i hope i get to see the coojie and the kiitos, too.