January 18, 2008

• d.c. m.i.a., becomes sort of tan and eventually ambitious

  first, i should say, i went on vacation, so, “i went on vacation.”
  
  secondly, i should insist that it was awesome. “it was awesome.”
  there was whale watching.
  
  there were whales to be watched. [that blob is a whale, i'm told]
  
  there was a baby jesus nativity scene that i think i should point out.
  
  and this tree that reconstructed nirvana songs in my head for some reason.
  
  if you are not familiar, vacations are these wonderful instruments of the modern world that should be applied liberally, with much frequency and enthusiasm. i’m sure you’d agree. mine came to an end with much sadness and joy. sadness ensuing while packing the 80spf sunscreen into the zip-lock bag for safe passage through the airspace located above mexico. joy upon uneventfully passing through customs with all the formalities surrounding reentry into the former country of texas.
  and what might be the reason for such joy, you ask? well, i’ll tell you. it was this – the first tasks at hand involved a little dvd that we had captured audio and video for on the remedy, club tour. yes, it was time to once again sit in front of the computer screen in attempts to sort through the madness, and i must tell you we have run into quite a fun problem. i’m not sure we can pack all that we have put together onto such a tiny object as a dvd. so far we have a full evening of concert footage, and, of course, some happy behind the scenes tour footage, plus, what is turning out to be a step-by-step instructional video on how to play such fantastic items as the guitar, or keytar, or theremin, or modified guitar hero controller, or bass, or violin, or the ubiquitous turntable, or that weird thing jack is wearing that has pretty blue lights and lots of buttons. yes, it turns out that with this herculean bit of video we have been assembling you could, for all practical purposes, be us. it is true! the only thing we do not expose is that mike d has asperger’s or that my diagnosis of him was confirmed by the simply fact that he runs on the balls of his feet.
  what i’m attempting to say here is this – after disappearing on a vacation and after flying back home through the mexican air with a fresh mexi-tan, you will assuredly feel rested, but you may make assumptions of what will and will not fit on a dvd. more to come on this at a later date. we don’t even know when it will release, all we know is that shane, our fearless engineer will begin mixing on monday for the audio side of things and that nate, the guy doing the video side of things, has at this point made it about halfway through the editing. pray that both of these guys go inhuman on the thing and pure magic erupts, seriously,
  i’ll keep you updated on how things are going and maybe stick a clip or two up here along the way.
  for now, i’m just glad to be back with much excitement ahead this year.

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