Pure Uncut China White

Day 12. Yep, skipped a few days there, for good reason, or maybe for bad reasons. Lets back up and recap.

Day 9. Lots of record company meetings. All good stuff. Looks like some definite work coming out of it. Always a good thing. Wednesday night we worked up a new beat which Edro wrote to the next day. He also wrote that night to a track that I produced. 6:15am we left the studio.

Day 10. Thursday. Awake at 9am, less than 3 hours of sleep. more like 1 and some rest. back to old habits. Anyway, I had a great meeting at 11:30am, it lasted over 2 hours and was very productive. Established some very mutually benefitial arrangements. it went well. After my meeting, I took a taxi down to see Parliment, Big Ben, and Westminster Abbey Cathedral. Westminster might be the biggest cathedral i've ever seen, and I've seen some monsters. Its really beautiful. The movie the Sixth Sense comes to mind though..... "I see dead people, their everywhere". The Abbey is kinda like one big tomb, with important people buried under the floors you walk on and in crypts you walk past. Pretty cool walking among kings and queens though, even if their dead. After a bit of sightseeing, i went shopping dropped an obnoxious amount on a nice shirt. The exchange rate is a killer. $1.80 = 1 Pound. You dont wanna know how much my shirt was, I'm trying to forget, but it is nice.

Raw, Uncut China White
Theres a club in London called China White. Apparently the elite all party there, TV and movie stars, and footballers, etc... We all went Thursday night. No poppin Crystal. We switched it up to Dom Perignon. Poor us :-) I really love the club, its got a great vibe to it, the DJ's were spinning great stuff and the more drinks we knocked back the more fun everything got, well, what i remember of it anyway. I don't drink often and i was happy to stick to champagne, but everyone i was with kept handing me shots. Ugh. kiss of death. I dont remember leaving the club, or the rest of the night, but until then i was really having a great time. So i guess Day 10 ended there for me memory wise, however, apparently we all went back to the studio so the label owner could get some incriminating photographic evidence of my drunken state. That bastard. So the next day i stole his memory stick with the pictures on it (he hadnt yet made a copy), and destroyed it. too bad. He tackled me trying to find the memory stick and chased me down the street when i stole his camera, and i pulled a hamstring. i'm not as young as i used to be. Not since DMX assaulted me (i didnt get hurt when DMX did, he just ripped my shirt half off looking for a wire, no joke) have i been assualted by someone in the industry, though this time, unlike the DMX incident, it was all (kind of) in good fun. That memory stick is gone gone gone as is my memory of the end of that night.

Day 11
Hangover day. didnt much feeling like moving. Got a late start on the day but it was made up for at the studio. We did a new beat that is really sounding hot hot hot. Edro cut a bunch of vocals and the project is really taking shape nicely. No alcohol today. Now, honestly, i rarely drink, and my ears are worthless when i do so i never have so much as a beer on the job unless the night is over, and on Day 11, it was water and soda's. All things considered, Day 11 was really productive for as bad as i was hurting. Brent was pretty much a disaster too. Not as bad as I was, but bad nonetheless. We were troopers though.

Day 12. TODAY. right now. Its been a pretty fun day. The only sight seeing time i've taken was on Thursday for a couple hours. I was planning to go to Paris on Friday, but found the train fares to be OUTRAGEOUS, apparently you have to book way in advance to get the fares that any normal person can afford. I would have paid it if i were going for a week, but for a day, it was too much. So we decided to enjoy London instead. Brent and i went to all the places i went Thursday, but this time i was smart enough to bring my camera. I got some great pics of Big Ben, the Thames, Parliment, etc..... We also went to the Salvador Dali museum here. Now it didnt hold a candle to the Philadelphia exhibit i saw recently, but it was better than the Paris Dali Museum. Dali was so prolific and so talented at so many different forms of art. Sculpture, sketching, watercolors, oil on canvas, super fine detail, broad strokes, surrealism, complete realism, metal work, moving images, you name it, he did it to the utmost. Cool museum, I recommend it. Anyway, Brent was with me. He's never seen a real Cathedral (he's never been outside the states). Westminster Abbey was a great one to start with. It was just as good for me the second time seeing it. Its spectacular. We got some food afterwards and went to the studio. We're here now grinding it out. Working on several different tracks today, and we're also backing the weeks work up to take home to america with us. I'll be mixing alot of this album back at my own studio, and we might do some more recording there as well. In fact they pretty much want me to come back ASAP and for as long as possible. We'll see when that will be. So tonight is shaping up to be another party night, two parties going on right now. We're still at the studio missing them. This album isnt going to finish itself. We might also go clubbing late late tonight. Lets hope i keep it together :-) no shots tonight, just champagne. Alright, back to work. Edro's album is coming along really well.
- Ken