| September 4..Back from Seattle yesterday. Oh that was fun. And I got to be in the Minus 5 for an hour. Straight from LAX to to party at Matt's. Beach! Free food! Free drinks! I knew Margy, Kristine, Pete and mostly and longest Byron. | September 5. Anniversary dinner at Boxer, run by old neighbor Steve. Mmmgood. Studying keyboard parts for upcoming fall-jinks. |
| September 7. The boys of autumn convene for a first rehearsal. Say hello to Kevin, to Kirk, to Chris, and there's me of course and the singer fellow. | September 9. Boubacar Traore in a living room. Sarah working hard, doing the meet and greet, circulating comestibles. Kevin came, had fun! Spoke my amusing French w/ the calabashist, I guess you might call him. Still rehearsing. |
| September 10. Instore misadventures. The whole gang went down but Long Beach law sez: Only two persons instoring at one time. Switched off no. 2 position w/ Kirk. Kev and Chris (he ordered the Pesky Tacos next door) shopped only. | September 12. Added a picture here. |
| September 14. Listening to Chris's new concept EP "2 Cool 2 Be 4 Gotten" and gee it's pretty brilliant. Today I didn't shave. Penultimate rehearsal, it's going fine. Don't worry! Mailed a book. Emptied the trash. Did this. | September 15. Last rehearsal. Some surprises for the fans. Covers so obscure they make Formby look like Madonna. BBQ at Kirk's w/ salad and spuds prepared by Mr. Stace. |
| September 18. Quite by surprise saw mi amiga Melanie Hoopes in a review tape of the new Larry David HBO series and a pleasanter surpise there could not be. She rocked! Made a page of pix, a central station of images (by ME) from around this big rambling site I call mine. They will take you to where they rightly belong. | September 25. Double dating last night on Kevin's invite to the Brian Wilson Pet Sounds w/ orchestra semicreepy yet sometimes persusasive tableau vivant at the Hollywood Bowl (where long ago I saw the Beach Boys play my first rock show -- at the Hollywood Bowl). Sarah made sandwiches. And look! There's Dennis Duck and Tom Recchion. |
| September 26. Page made for August's tourfun. Also: many new and empowering links have gone in throughout this particular neighborhood ("Tourism"); watch for significant alterations in type color. | September 27. A page for the legendary Oslo "Magic Box" show has been posted for your perusal. Arrived in the mail: a copy of the Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 book, ed. Peter Guralnick, which reprints my Tom Waits L.A. Weekly cover story from last year. That is an exciting thing. |
| September 28. Last night in TV-critic capacity participated in a panel at the Museum of TV & Radio on images of Los Angeles, feeling tiny -- other panelists included the guy who created Columbo, the guy who created The Rockford Files (and 77 Sunset Strip and The Fugitive and a million other shows you know), the guy who created Moesha and the guy who wrote the "yada yada" and "spongeworthy" episodes of Seinfeld. And, you know, me. I chimed in anyway, did OK. | !-August page
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