Well, hell. It’s been a crazy December so far…. but things are sliding nicely into a 2008 wide smile. We all hopes. Last night we hit the Viper Room again. Black Kites are no longer the least known band in LA. Kindofa nice feeling, that. After being a buzz band for a week – thanks to our little write up in the LA Times by Kevin Bronson, with a full photo and good words, and opening for Eskimohunter last night, and finding a review and an ad for our EP in the latest issue of the Big Takeover (#61 ) – it’s like kite-flyin’ time in the city. Just gotta watch out for those kite eating trees.
And it was definitely nice having people come out and enjoy the show – I did like the Eskimohunter, the headliners of the night, they pulled off a very nice Ride reminiscent set, with a bit more spaced-out vibes going. If they were in Seattle they’d be playing with Voyager One all the time. I don’t mean that in a bad way, i just mean they have their sound, and they roll it out well. Us? Well, we’re still fresh and young (as a band, not necessarily as individuals… I mean – a couple of years ago I would not be feeling this bad after a night of playing and drinking… and I didn’t even drink that much… stupid time. Making me get all older and stuff.) and we are still working out our sound. We get the whole shoegaze thing, but we aren’t quite that – we get the Sundays meets Velvet Underground thing, but I don’t know – I think it’s too soon to just throw a label on us, ’cause the sound is still a little kid, and will be growing out of it’s current notes as the months trip by.
In other news, we’re thinking about a video, thinking about an album, and thinking about playing more shows – more news as it moves.
On the outside of band life, Shelley and I just passed our 3 year mark – and that makes me smile… i wouldn’t be here and doing all the things i do if it wasn’t for her. and it’s good. we sorta split our celebration a bit – just the two of us going out for a great dinner at daichan, and then a few days later, we went out with tina and nathan for nathan’s birthday dinner at Campanile. not a cheap place to go, but the food definitely was worth it. i have never in my entire life had mashed potatoes taste so good – and i have had some damn fine taters in my time.
so, evidently, the building that this restaurant is now in was built by Charlie Chaplin in 1929, supposedly for his personal offices, but lost the building before it was completed to his ex-wife in a divorce settlement. This explains why the room we were in was called “The Charlie Chaplin Room”. So – the food was great – the bread was amazing (thanks to the connected La Brea Bakery) – and while not a place we will be eating at often, it is a place we will eat at again.
Shelley hit the jury duty a couple of days last week, and i just remained at work, and canadian. we have our office party coming up at the end of the week, and we just put up our little 4 1/2 foot Target Christmas tree, and decorated it last night. We got some cards done, and some presents ready – so it’s beginning to feel a lot like christmas…
now if i could just shake this hangover, that feeling would be a whole lot better.
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