On Thursday night Jamie and I went to see Tortoise play at El Rey. I haven't seen a show there before and it's really a great venue... great atmosphere and good sound, and it's open and comfortable. Not to get too nerdy, but it reminded me of the inside of Setzer's airship from FF3. Anyway... Tortoise was awesome and super-tight. Having dual-drummers was pretty impressive, especially when they were playing the same beat/fills. I sweat every snare hit sounded like 1 drum... so tight. Overall it got a little boring, the songs don't really go anywhere and they are very similar to each other, but taken individually they are great little pieces of contained-mood. The photo above is from someone's flickr stream of the show.

Happy birthday, Wally! It was good having you around, even for just a couple days. Man our house has been so packed lately. I think we had about 8 cars on Friday night, and we had to rodeo a bunch of them over to the Park and Ride just to store them overnight. Last night it was 2 in the garage, 4 in the driveway side-by-side, and one perpendicular behind all of them (we can't park on the street). Sheesh... but it was all worth it for some great ultimate frisbee action, and in-the-pool three flies up. That's what a Saturday should be!

Today was a fantastic future-of-Kotori meeting, with everyone in one place (crazy). It was surreal to meet people that I've only known through email before, and all-in-all we came away with some great concepts and direction. I had prepared some mockups and samples and everything was relatively well-received. We video taped it all for certain out-of-state contributors. Can't wait to get started on the production (in between everything else).

Time to go pick up some furniture for the studio. Pictures to come, I promise.