From her blog on 9/24

My approach to writing a blog seems to be similar to my approach to keeping a journal…I’m very gung-ho about the concept, fairly eager about the execution for about 2 weeks, and then suddenly I slip into some sort of blog-coma where I forget I’ve ever heard the word “blog.”. Of course, all the things I’d LIKE to talk about I can’t…a public forum is not the place to discuss certain things…who but me would be interested in my friend who owns a beer funnel and dunks his doughnuts in whiskey? So I’ll just get to the news items, the sort of things you’d put in your Xeroxed Christmas round –up letter that you stick in with the card and that everyone throws away:

1. I finished my record! It’s officially done and mastered. I’m extremely pleased with it, and with the job Paul Bryan did. You may know Paul as my bass player, but oh, he’s so much more than that. (He also produced my Christmas record.) The record was mixed and engineered by Ryan Freeland, who I’ve worked with before on The Forgotten Arm. The two of them together are pretty spectacular. I think I’m calling it “Smilers”. Technically it will be “@%! Smilers”, but there’s no real way to pronounce “@%!” I suppose I mean the title to be both ironic and non-ironic…it is actually a fairly smiley record, considering. We have an incredible artist who will be doing the package artwork, Gary Taxali…if you want to see his work, he has a website, garytaxali.com.

2. Some other events I neglected to mention in blogdom: a.) the Beatles tribute at the Hollywood Bowl with Cheap Trick, who were completely rocktastic and full of awesomeness…I even brought my phone onstage when I was part of the background singer group so I could take pictures, pictures that I’d be posting now if my phone hadn’t crashed and erased all of them. Thanks, Treo…I hate you. I hope you like landfills ’cause you’re going in one as soon as I buy the iPhone. Now the world will never see me and Al Jourgensen hugging.

b.) Three shows I played at Largo, semi-acoustic, meaning the band minus drums…I had SUCH a great time…I love playing Largo so much, and my musicians are so great, it really is a treat to be onstage with them. The highlight for me was that John Krasinski and Ed Helms came down to see me…it made me nervous as hell but in a good way. John and I happened to be wearing the same gray cardigan, which for me was enough to instantly classify us as new BFFS.

c.) A benefit for 826 Valencia, the organization headed by the writer Dave Eggers, who makes me feel smarter just writing his name…I played 5 or 6 songs but the same John Krasinski from the previous paragraph and I did a “bit” or “sketch” or “comedy thingy” together…it was super-sloppy but gigantically fun for me, and people laughed, either with us or at us, I’m not sure, but I’m happy either way.

Love - Aimee

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