This trip, the making of this record, the several crazy adventures we've had in Los Angeles...its all quickly coming to an end. Today is our final day in the studio, we'll be listening to rough mixes and popping open bottles of champagne I'm sure. We're really going to miss being here...hanging with Stacy and (THE) Regulator, we're also gonna miss:
The H&K super market - a korean supermarket where amazing imported foods can be found, and where they decide daily whether or not they accept credit cards...
Trying to follow Stacy (anywhere) - he may be the worse person to follow in a car, if you find yourself in the situation where you have to follow him...you'd better just know where you're going first!
Regulator regulating - just when you thought you were right about something, you weren't...THE REG was!
Test Drive Unlimited - for Xbox360...we played that game everyday in between takes, that is until BILL stole the xbox
Amazing LA sushi - the best I've had in my life (sea urchin anyone??)
Our favorite place to go to after a long day at the studio - Kibbits
Buzz Iced Coffee- on a daily occurance around 1pm when we finally roll out of bed, we walk down the block and grab an iced coffee...only problem is we end up doing it individually without cash in our pockets and come back with 3 bags of pastries that never get eaten (so we can obey their $5 credit card limit)
side note: day old chocolate croissants are NOT good, even when you heat them in the microwave
The Grove - the coolest farmers market we've ever been to, indonesian food...great pastries and all the fresh produce you could ask for (don't get the salami sandwich from the sandwich place in the middle of the market...when they say salami they really mean bologna)
Willy Chambers & Artie Vegas - Two old musicians that have been rockin the LA scene for Lord knows how long...but they're incredible!!! Check them out at Kibbits
The Bevonshire- our hotel...or motel that is, includes strange characters, pool inside/outside...you'd have to see a picture, 65 year old transvestite prostitutes, and maids that walk in on you (without knocking first) right when you get out of the shower and you're in your briefs
The Girls at the Bloomingdales Make-up Counter - trust us, check it out...you'll know immediately
The Death Star - the coolest studio with the best vibe...literally ZERO fights or arguments the entire time...we sacked two songs we were dead set on recording after we wrote two new songs here. Also some history, not only was it HOLE's old studio, but REM recorded a song here...and I'm pretty sure we've seen a ghost several times when we've been here at about 3am
Glockenspiel - yes there's one on the record...listen for it.
The Progress Board - we got pretty artistic with it...and it came out incredible, we'll post a pic of it later.
Zuma - beautiful...skip past malibu, drive farther down the PCH and you'll have a beach to yourself
Korean BBQ - but only when Stacy's ordering
The Key Master - the first couple of nights at our hotel this really crazy looking guy would just be hanging around at all times...no matter if it was late at night or early in the morning...and would just walk around smoking his cigarettes and staring at us...we're pretty sure he has a key to every room and just stands over your bed and breathes hard...his room doesn't have a number on it, no lie.
Kay Hanley - amazing, amazing, amazing...absolute honor to have her voice on our record!
The Clothing Box - so, we're not exactly the tidiest group of guys in the world...well some of us are, but for the most part we're really not. we left our clothes laying around our hotel room in absolute disarray...finally the maids got tired of pushing our dirty undies under the sink so they could mop the floor and brought in a box that they just threw everything into...not to mention that every time we flush the toilet water sprays everywhere so the clothes were WET...so now we have this box of soggy and not to mention smelly clothes that we have to sort through and pack in our suit cases...good luck TSA.
David Wallace & Lucas Mann - when the record company "suits" come to check on the progress of the record, bands tend to worry that things will be rather stiff...When Lucas came we went out to a sushi joint and he tried to buy us an entire bottle of smuggled snake saki (there's a dead snake inside the bottle...leave the worm at home folks and go for the snake!) Wallace is one of our favorite people on earth, he watched the office with us and we munched down on some serious Mexicali food and we ended up staying at the studio into the morning hours sharing side splitting stories and trying to convince him to shotgun a fosters.
Hanae Honna- lended her beautiful Japanese language and voice on the record!!!!
This is just a short list of what we love and will miss once we're back in the hills of GA. Can't wait to see you again LA.
with all our love,
THE MODERN SOCIETY
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