The Nancy Drews: Rock & Dine!

thanks to everyone who came out! you all made it a special night of food, music, and fun! i'll have more pics soon, the above are courtesy of kath. when i post the other pics i'll give a short review.

got the new chris harford album and i think it's pretty damn good. produced, engineered, and arranged by michael melchiondo aka mickey melchiondo aka dean ween aka mickey moist, and mixed by andrew weiss of ween, butthole surfers, and rollins band fame, Looking Out For Number 6 is a lovely album which is par for the course for chris harford as far as i know. the only other album of his i've listened to is 1992's Be Headed which was released by Elektra. Number 6 starts out with the apocalyptic "what we do not know" and moves right into the lennon-esque "this moment is all we've got". my favourite track thus far is "teach me" featuring harmonies by gene ween aka papa gener aka aaron freeman. the album ends on kind of a low note with "the glider to the queen". i've never been a fan of closing an album with a slow song, it just seems rather anticlimactic. while the technique does work on a number of records, i don't like it here and that's my biggest complaint. and that there are only eight tracks, which makes it feel like it ends abruptly.

anyhow, the album (released on Ween's own Chocodog label) just got picked up by Sony/BMG so the official release date has been pushed back i guess. i did the preorder thing so that's why i have it. i didn't mean to sound like i was bragging. i'm just going to stop now because i am so scatterbrained from the weekend's shenanigans and the beefeaters & tonic i had last night at barry's.