The Weblog of Daniel Tashian

Watched a biography on A&E about Jody Foster. I forgot she was in the original Freaky Friday. She’s such a natural actor. They showed a scene from Silence Of The Lambs where she was visiting Hannibal in his cell and she is so good! Then worked on a mix and I’m getting better at protools. Grimey called and we went to Las Palmas ($12) and he told me “Metric” was the best band he saw in Austin. He said the lead singer was mesmerizing. He saw the Pretenders and they played at Stubbs Barbecue which he thought was funny because Chrissie Hynde is such an animal rights activist. We left and Grimey came over and DJed for me, which was a treat because he was playing stuff out of my own collection that i’ve never heard. He managed to find the one song on “Thriller” that I had never really listened to! He also played “Creepin” by Stevie Wonder (which also appears on the Tommy Keenum album that I produced), something really obscure by the Carpenters…a Buffy St. Marie song that I loved, the theme from “Peter Gunn” which, athough somewhat of a pedestrian choice, never fails to move me. What else? Oh…we listened to more Little Feat that I bought on itunes, like “Six Feet of Snow” and “Down on The Farm”. He said the whole itunes thing was disconcerting to him, but really, I can see what he means. Watched some Letterman and went to bed.