Wednesday May 24 2006
Emily west came over and she’s hilarious. The whole way she talks to her dog is unbelievable. We tried to write a few different ideas but it wasn’t happening, so I pulled out a song idea and said “I have this idea.” So she ended up liking the idea and singing a little demo of the song, it’s called “That’s alright, i’ll let it slide” and it sounds kind of Dylan-ish. I hope it sounds Dylan-ish, I should say. But Protools kept crashing and it was really frustrating and if I didn’t have Jason Lehning I don’t know what I would have done. T-Bone Burnett was playing and I should have gone to see Marc Ribot and Jim Keltner and T-Bone and I called Gillian and Dave, and sort of said: “Well, are you guys going?”. But nobody called me, so I guess they must be out of town. I should have gone anyway, but it’s like that Norah Jones song sometimes: “I don’t know why…”;There’s no way to explain why you didn’t do something, it just doesn’t happen.