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I spent almost 8 hours today cooped up in a tiny room, listening to the same five songs over and over. Have I suddenly become a guest of the CIA at Guantanamo Bay? Nope! I took the Fuzzy Lemons’ demo tracks to Deep Diner Music in NYC for mastering! My neighbor Bob Mann runs the place, when he’s not touring with James Taylor. 

World-class engineer Darwin Best spent the day patiently turning our home-recorded demo tracks into something really special. He’s a wizard, very professional, easy-going and fast (hey, mastering a song from the ground up in an hour and 20 minutes is a lot faster than I could go!). He regaled Justin and me with stories of his experiences over the years fixing Clive Davis’ mistakes, recording Rod Stewart and appearing on TV thanks to Regis Philbin (”I just stared at Kelly Ripa’s @$$”).

Next week we press the CD, they’ll be on sale by next weekend! Can you believe it?

Dave offers Darwin some utterly superfluous advice.

Justin and Darwin "in the box."

Deep Diner Music's "Wall of Gold." James Taylor, Rod Stewart, and MECO are among the names to be found here. Coming Soon: The Fuzzy Lemons!

Bonus Star Wars geek cred: One of the platinum records on the wall, inscribed to Bob’s partner Allan Schwartzberg, is the original MECO “Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk” album.

Photos courtesy of Justin Michael

My wife and I had the day to ourselves for once—she had the day off and the kid is in day care—so we went to the mall. (I know, “whee!” right?) Partly we were school shopping for the squirt, who starts Pre-K on tuesday, but we also wanted to see a movie. And the only movie playing that was of any interest was… you guessed it….

When we bought our tickets there was a sign saying “The A/C in Theater 4 is not working. The temperature is approximately 85 degrees.” Now, that’s a weird number, because it doesn’t seem THAT hot, but would we be able to stand it for a full movie? No one could tell us how the theater actually felt, nor would they let us in without tickets to see for ourselves.

Here’s how much my wife loves me: We dithered for a moment, and then the love of my life said “let’s run down to CVS and get a couple of those little battery-powered fans, maybe even the kind that spray water.” She’s so smart! 

The Clone Wars was fun and the theater wasn’t even that hot. Lots of lightsabers, spaceships and explosions, which is exactly what I’d come to see. I didn’t like the “newsreel” opening in place of the classic “crawl,” and the flamingly gay Uncle Hutt was utterly uncalled for. The animated Star Wars will never match the “real” Star Wars, but then, I feel the same way about the prequel trilogy.

Ok, so I’m also a Star Wars geek. I was pretty sure I was over it once Episode III had come and gone, but now George Lucas has decided that he wants to make an animated Star Wars TV series–and, what’s more, it’s going to debut not on TV but on the silver screen. So I’ll be squandering one of my wife’s vacation days next week to go see the d@mn thing.

“The Clone Wars”… so aptly named. I know it’s more of the same, yet I can’t resist…

Will I never be free?

(Kipley loves to rib me about my obsession. He says things like “That Star Wars movie seems like it might be pretty popular someday.” To which I can only reply–silently– “laugh it up, fuzzball!”)

(Leave me in my shame.)