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From: Zeke Zaskin [mailto:xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:42 AM
To: '.: Fishy'
Subject: RE: what are you listening to these days?

Hey Fishy, OK, your idea sounds cool.
I know. it’s a killer idea. Hehe.... thanks.
First, do you still want to work it as an hourly rate thing?
How else would we do it. Zeke’s like ‘bro I took like eighty hours cutting this guitar track.... you owe me ten thousand dollars...’
Second, did you ever decide on the sonic theme you want,
Yes = Foo, Radiohead, u2, metallica on the bottom if beck and DJ shadow chopped it all up. travis, Radiohead, muse, Rufus, u2, new porn, badly drawn boy, dungen in the middle with lots of orchestration and sound effects, beach boys and mamas and papas vocals on top. But now imagine that Prince and the Neptunes commissioned it all and mixed it together.

or do you want it to just be what it is based on the tracks everyone has laid down?
Yes exactly.
Third, do you still want it to be really polished and commercial?
Yes, but I am equally interested in it being something we have never heard before sonically. Like mars volta!!! Holy shit they are gods.

I'm going to St. Pete tomorrow to produce for Jon Secada's album,
Climb that ladder baby! and lets make some MONEY!!!
so I probably won't be able to get started until late next week on your stuff, but go ahead and send the DVD's over, and let me know the answers to the above questions.
Got it. on it. this should be interesting to hear what you do versus Vancouver without either of you hearing the others work... I am intrigued by the idea but it may fail. We’ll see... Just have to see... I am also doing the same thing with Infinito and Ben on the drums and with Rockaway and Pianoman on the keys and pianos.... “you may say I'm a dreamer....” wish me luck.




Talking with Princess Little Tree. I'm at the age where many of my friends are having kids. Princess Little Tree is at the age where everyone is getting divorced. That's life. that's the cycle. We laugh.


How does divorce affect children. Well on TV all the people are married... in real life in America over half are divorced. So TV can really give a kid a distorted view of life. there's life on TV, the way its supposed to be. and then there's life in real life, the way it is. we should change that.

Marriage. Well the problem I tell her is that its just such an unnatural state. We take it for granted mostly because at some point we invented the concept and indoctrinated ourselves into it through the use of religious dogma and the holier than thou concept of “it’s the right thing to do.” But five years into a marriage and most people feel it intuitively start a realizing that it may be the right thing to do, but it sure aint natural. Its like telling people that they should eat pink elephants for dinner. You throw a little ‘God says so’ into the equation and pretty soon everyone's eating pink elephants for dinner. They don't like it. and they sure as hell know it aint the natural thing to do, but they're doing it. that's marriage. People question why the divorce rate is so high in America. But in reality what they should be questioning is why the marriage rate is still so high.

I'm not against it mind you. I mean, as a concept, philosophically it sure sounds nice. and I'd be the first to rush to the altar if I ever felt so inclined. But I just think that we have to start looking at divorce as what it really is, a natural part of the cycle. Marriage, divorce, marriage again, maybe divorce again. natural.






Juliet,
Just thought of something to tell you. I am getting so much from Avatar right now. that effing integrity course they have is blowing me away. I have been doing it on my own here for the last few days. because the cool thing about it is once you do that particular course once, you can then use those tools on your own. don't need others for it. so I did it once a few days ago on things regarding me and Cleopatra and our business and relationship.. and had tremendous gains and feeling of freedom and more free attention. and all of a sudden it occurred to me to run it again only this time focusing on the years in college and high school. Just went for it and focused on all those years. wow! cleaning up shit from the last twenty years that I hadn't ever seen before. things that were shelved away in my subconscious in the categories we keep in our mind called ‘just the way it is’ or ‘I couldn’t help it’ or ‘that's just the way I was’ or ‘I don't know why I did that’ or ‘it wasn't my fault...’ so many things like that, that still to this day can suck our attention and creative energy... I feel so clean and clear. I was digging up things that were just sitting there in my mind and heart for years and years... things that we think about now and again, maybe things we feel bad about, but we think about them for a few seconds, they stick our attention, and then we tell ourselves not to think about them. but haha of course things that we tell ourselves not to think about are things that are sticking our attention and limiting our creative energy potential. Just trying not to think about things sucks attention and creative energy. And of course foreget about the emotional and mental ramifications of repression.... etc.... so anyway, I must have uncovered close to a hundred secrets hidden agendas and transgressions against self and others that were just sitting there in my subconscious for years from when I was a kid. what a feeling of relief.



Current spin: Mars volta, frances the mute. I think this may be the best album of the year and this has been the best year for music prob since the mid-seventies. There is so much good music being made right now in the human world that it is impossible to keep up with it all. seriously impossible. But this, wow. this is THE ONE. THIS IS THE BEST ONE IN RECENT MEMORY. Their new CD is fucking unbelievable. Get it!!!! how the hell do you write an album like this? this is a masterpiece. Maybe the best album of all time. it’s a religious experience. I am in complete awe. When you think of all the other bands that are great out there like u2 and muse and oasis and travis and Foo fighters and then you listen to this album you realize that they all fail in comparison to this masterpiece by whoever the fuck mars volta is. this is the first album of the new century that said ‘o.k. this is what new music is going to sound like.’ Its that good.