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Day 17
We re-visited "Catching & Killing" today. We spent all day on it. We listened through Toby's drunken rave, all fifteen takes, found the bits we liked, played around with them on the computer, re-ordering etc. Toby sung doubles to some of these and also put down some new words.
Mark Wilson from Jet came over. They're all staying in the Hollywood Hills, near Cahuenga Pass on the Valley side, but he was the first of them back to LA after a break in recording so we kept him company. A well mannered Geelong boy he is.
So this is what Toby and I thought: as I said before, if Portland, Oregon is people serving coffee to each other, then NYC is people watching their friends DJ, and LA is people giving their business cards to each other. Where we live in LA is “The Valley” as I'm sure I've mentioned. The San Fernando Valley - otherwise known as the San Pornando Valley since it’s the porn capital of the world. The porn industry is hidden and the place is extremely suburban; every nearby street could be used as a movie stand-in for small town America. And it's kind of well-off; in the last ten years median house prices here have apparently gone up something like five times, maybe closer to ten-times, to almost a million dollars. It's also got it's own weird climate from being hemmed in by mountains and filled with millions of cars. In summer, deprived of a sea-breeze, the temperature soars five or ten degrees celcius above that of the LA-basin. What else? There's nowhere to go for a drink, except Pat's Cocktails. I like a gin and tonic at that place.
Toby reading the LA Times - Valley Edition
We re-visited "Catching & Killing" today. We spent all day on it. We listened through Toby's drunken rave, all fifteen takes, found the bits we liked, played around with them on the computer, re-ordering etc. Toby sung doubles to some of these and also put down some new words.
Mark Wilson from Jet came over. They're all staying in the Hollywood Hills, near Cahuenga Pass on the Valley side, but he was the first of them back to LA after a break in recording so we kept him company. A well mannered Geelong boy he is.
So this is what Toby and I thought: as I said before, if Portland, Oregon is people serving coffee to each other, then NYC is people watching their friends DJ, and LA is people giving their business cards to each other. Where we live in LA is “The Valley” as I'm sure I've mentioned. The San Fernando Valley - otherwise known as the San Pornando Valley since it’s the porn capital of the world. The porn industry is hidden and the place is extremely suburban; every nearby street could be used as a movie stand-in for small town America. And it's kind of well-off; in the last ten years median house prices here have apparently gone up something like five times, maybe closer to ten-times, to almost a million dollars. It's also got it's own weird climate from being hemmed in by mountains and filled with millions of cars. In summer, deprived of a sea-breeze, the temperature soars five or ten degrees celcius above that of the LA-basin. What else? There's nowhere to go for a drink, except Pat's Cocktails. I like a gin and tonic at that place.
Toby reading the LA Times - Valley Edition
