Monday March 27 2006
Had a meeting with the Bees at Athens and I wonder why it’s so hard to sell songs for download on the internet. Why is it so hard? Then we decided to ask David Yonkman if he would edit some of the Jeff Goldblum footage into the Country Life video. Josh Rouse called and he’s getting ready to start his North American tour. He said he needed a place to stay for a couple days. I told him Leslie gets in on Tuesday, so it shouldn’t be a problem for him to come Wednesday. Jason White called and he was on his way to Corner Music to look at Ukuleles and so I met him there and I was supposed to help him pick one out, but there was only one there to choose from, so he got that one. Well, there was only one Baritone. Tidied up some more and Melissa came over and we changed the key of our song and wrote more lyrics. I think she thinks of songwriting as a very confessional process, whereas, for me, I think of it more like greeting cards. Like: “what could it say when you open the card?” Watched the “Housewives Of Orange County” on Bravo and it was really hard not to be judgemental about these stupid fucking vapid people! All reality shows are about super-rich people, like Tori Spelling….what if, to balance it out, you had a show where you made the rich people switch places with some really poor people. But then again that wouldn’t do any good, because all they would think at the end was “Wow! I’m so glad i’m rich!”
It’s almost like the rest of the country (or MOST PEOPLE) watch and think : “I hate these people! I’m so much more enlightened than they are!” but really, they secretly envy them.