settled

it became official today...BBIV is taping in scotland from june 15th to the 29th...at a famous course called carnoustie. carnoustie has hosted numerous british open championships...the most recent in 1999.

needless to say, we have a LOT of work to do between now and june 15th. we have 55 days to organize the biggest production in the GC's history! and i have 55 days to really prepare all the music i'm going to use in post. my goal is for a lot of the tracks to feature killer beats and grooves with 'scottish' type-sounds (think bagpipes and fiddles) over it. the problem: none of that really exists in our music library. so i'll be trying my hand at garageband and seeing if i can create such music myself. we'll see...

with the shoot tentatively set to end on june 29th, i'm quite happy! why? cause it means i can go to manchester for the first saturday of the month (july 2) and hear mr. scruff at the music box :) from there i'll be off to the city of lurid decadence, amsterdam. unless the anti-p wants to come over and meet me on the other side of the pond...in which case we'll find common ground on where to travel.

but dancing my ass off to a scruff set on the 2nd is happening, regardless. it's been far too long. since my mom's birthday in '03, the night the very same anti-p told me to tell e how i felt about her. yeah, that worked...went over like the proverbial-lead ballon. broken hearted, i was...

speaking of scruff, his three-record complilation is going on next. i just purchased it in london. it'd be on now, except that i'm totally mad about (how's that for trying to be english) the roots manuva full-length i just purchased in london as well.

simply, one of the best, intelligent, dark, grooving hip hop records i've heard in some time. true beauty...