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march 14, 2005 .. Loads of sexy at Blowoff on Saturday night. Bob's first set was filled with great new rock stuff I hadn’t heard before. My sets were mostly new house records + the new remixes I've been doing. Been so busy doing remixes these past couple of weeks I was psyched to play them out . In the studio : I’ve got a couple more remixes I have to finish including one for the new Ananda Project record and a down tempo mix of "Love is Everything" off of K.D. Lang's new record. I'm also producing a song called "Spinning" for the new Ultra Nate record. Plus assorted riffs and ramblings about fidelity, love and the taste of sin. march 10, 2005 - grass guitars and drum beats. "No time for in and out love....." Blowoff Saturday night. march 5, 2005 -Everything blurs together. Working a lot. Real pop music. Trying to get the difference between pop and dance and all of it. And why it matters. Pop music is like God. Sometimes you're embarassed when you need it. Or when you talk about it. Or when something's so great it becomes your favorite song. When confronted with death I found myself most concerned about pain, not leaving. march 2, 2005- If you are in NYC check out Jack's show.
feb 27, 2005 -- You get
so wrapped up in the day to day. Work, music, dead - lines,sexy. The last minute of the new limp bizkit video is tight. The music is dripping - sad, and the footage is cut off balance . Hats off boy. feb 24, 2005 - while searching for pictures of Hitler I found this funny page.The mr tourette's are seriously funny . They get even funnier if you read them out loud with a French accent to someone you're tight with. feb 23, 2005 .. Tonight Proton Radio will be playing “Lucky Strike” full out on the “Digital Curve" show. I did an hours worth of djing as well. 7:00 p.m. Been working late nights mixing, remixing. Doing a remix of a new Esthero song. Its all dubby - thick and warm. Like summertime. When I listen to music I usually repeat one song again and again. Always trying to repeat the buz it gives me. I do it in the car, I do it at home. feb, 18, 2005 -- Blowoff tomorrow night. feb 16, 2005 -- Dub mixing New Order at 3 a.m. "And this is where I wanna be. ... I'll never let you go" is what it all boils down to. Its all about effect. A brief history of Dub. feb 12, 2005 -- 4:30 a.m. Been working on a remix of the new New Order single “Krafty”. Go for a drive. Check the mix. Pick up diet coke and ice cream. Drive around and listen more. Listen. Loud. The mix is grand in a classic New Order way. Makes me feel important and free. feb 11, 2005 .. Lets go for a ride. I'll drive. Here’s a bootleg remix I did of U2’s Vertigo.... I’ve been playing it at Blowoff. Its all samples and beats : U2 and Unkle (False Prophet's mix of "Reign"). "Vertigo (Morel'sBootleg)U2.mp3" Love Rich. feb
10, 2005 When I was writing songs for “Lucky Strike “ I got on a whole trip, emotionally. I really dove into it not caring about what it would do to me or those around me. It was almost adolescent. It was immediate . It was about hard ons, loneliness and being left out. It got me ..here. On that record I was focused on the object. Particularly on songs like “I’ll do what I can not to touch you”, “Making sense” and “Under a disco”. I’ve been getting on a new trip lately. Details don’t count here. Now I am writing about the effect. While simplicity is key I’m still tripping to the words. Of course you want a sunny day , with the windows down, roads go by , music loud. Of course
you wanna smoke a joint and run around. Of course you want to fuck a 24 year old who rubs up against you and starts sweet talking you. You owe it to him. feb 7, 2005 -- Felt euphoric Sunday after having a ball at Blowoff on Saturday with Bob and all the great music, and talk and everything. Nothing changes , just the way I see it. Thanks. feb 4, 2005 - Been inside, the studio mostly, for a couple days. (except for a walk with Chief). My dub mix of “Tired” by Vivian Green is making me happy. Its funky in a noisy, Motown, Manchester, soul, house kind of way. I played some wah guitar and piano and the whole thing made me stand up and shake like I want you to.....very sexy. My remix of Seal's "Killer" (along with mixes by Rauhofer/DJ Monk/J. Albert) made it to number one on Billboard's club play chart this week. It will be played at Blowoff (the only club I care about ) Saturday night. feb 2, 2005 -
Blowoff
this Saturday night. feb 2, 2005--- Been working on a remix of “Tired” by Vivian Green. Its a beautiful and odd song with parts in 3/4 time. Finally, this morning at 4 a.m., I got a handle on it. I’m doing a down tempo mix which has an almost sci-fi Motown sound to it. I love the original song and I want my mix to center on its simple, almost Supreme’s like vibe. I’ll have to do a dub mix - in a more house style - so the record boys are happy as well. "The Death of a Disco Dancer" never sounded so good. feb 2, 2005 --some press on "Lucky Strike" in LA's Frontiers Magazine. feb 1, 2005 -- I was talking with a friend last week. He asked me if I remembered the day when I realized that the music I liked effected other people’s opinion of me. From that moment on music became more then just the safety net I would wrap myself up in to hide from the real world and feel massive. For better or worse, music was now also some kind of accessory , or profile, or calling card to friends and others. I do remember this one: I was out smoking behind my high school telling my friends I had gotten tickets to see Bowie at the Boston garden (“Heroes” tour). A couple of the guys said: “Bowie’s a fag” to put down my excitement. I was about to say something - but I caught myself and just smiled instead. The show rocked. I went with my 2 best friends. We smoked hash, drank Southern Comfort and stood on our chairs for 2 hours. A group of girls in the front row were so turned on they took off their shirts and threw them at Bowie. They were escorted out topless. We heard them crying “We love you David” as they were ejected from the show. Now that rocks--- even if it is faggy. Jan. 28, 2005 -- A new video for "If You Love Me" . The song is about how love is both confining and freeing.
jan 23, 2005 --Yesterday’s snow added complications to a simple day . Last night we had Blowoff. Bob informed me that it had been 2 years since we started the first Blowoff. The 2 year anniversary. The snow insured that Blowoff would be made up of mostly regulars and the guys that really get it. The Baltimore guys were missing ( as were a few locals that have been with us since the start) due to the lousy weather. Blowoff
has been a big part of my deal for the last two years. Its been
more then just a party we throw every couple of weeks. Its been
a place where I’ve met a lot of very good guys and been able
to turn on and be turned on by very cool music. And , at times,
its super sexy as well. Thanks to Bob and the rest of you who get it. Love Rich.
jan 21, 2005 -- Blowoff Saturday night. "If You Love Me" made Pete Tong's list this week. I've been working on a video for "If You Love Me" that I will post here later. jan 14, 2005 -- NYC went off with out a rub. In the afternoon we played at Sirius satellite radio, mixed with interview. It was a lot of fun and the dj - host Charlie Dryer was great. He really knew his stuff. He touched on my records, Pink Noise remixes , and Blowoff. It was a lot of fun. Given the state of radio its no surprise that satellite radio is where we find a warm welcome.
I met Mel Brooks at the club earlier in the night. Which was unexpected and funny. I didn't say hi to his wife , Mrs. Robinson, .
jan 11, 2005 -- cut to the chase... Transporter..
jan 10, 2005 -big fun at Blowoff on Saturday. Morel will be playing at the Mercury Lounge in NYC this wednesday , jan. 12th.
We took out our Christmas tree this weekend. We had cut it down fresh. It was home to many insects , mostly spiders. Being inside for three weeks caused a praying mantis egg sac to hatch. I put a couple in the back room to try and give them a chance to see spring.
jan 6, 2005
poster by Pat, who rocks hard, like a soviet daddy lover. jan 3, 2005 -
thought about in 2004: Much of life is private and should remain so. Pop culture’s reality based - MTV- cribs- blogg - exposure has removed all the sexiness of being private. Loneliness knows no shame and everyone has a microphone now. As a result celebrity is common and stardom is virtually non existent. All the political bloggers want to be Thomas Paine. Few are. If the revolution was wireless I’m sure he’d have been blogging. Paine rocked hard, like a daddy of the revolution should. Ideas cause change. Djs as superstars was just the warning. Here's the flood. Record albums are virtually dead. What we got now is collage like play lists and mp3 bloggers pasting together other boy’s images. The best new idea is context... I like more
of the pictures on the hook up sites then the actual guys. I have one degree of separation from Dick Cheney now. Bottoms are as butch as tops. Everyone is sexy. Everyone is obscene. Everyone was naked in my wet dream. Happy New Year, Your affectionate friend, Rich
december 23, 2004 -- I wrote and recorded “Glitter Cowboy” right after the “4-Track” cd sometime in 1996. Its a song about drag, love, and cowboys. Its a song about what we do to deny it, and what we do to believe in it. The mix is a bit tripped up but here it is. So lets smoke a joint and fall in love all over again. Merry Christmas . Glitter
Cowboy Happiness has got nothing to do with love now baby
production notes: Most of the tracks for this song were recorded into my Akia sampler and then arranged and mixed using DP to trigger all the samples. I played the guitar into the sampler as well and was able to use the sampler’s time stretching and filters to give it an almost slow motion sound. All of the flange effects where created by layering samples.The filters in the Akia give it that old timey - glam - carni vibe. december 20, 2004 -- “Real
love amounts to withholding the truth even when you’re offered
the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.”
well put by
december 17, 2004 -- I was at the book store and looked at dj mag's list of top 100 djs. The concept of the top 100 djs is funny for me. In the intro to the list they mentioned how Dj Tiesto dj’d at the Olympics to a tv audience of 4.5 billion. Djing on t.v. is a bizarre concept because then you are really just playing a record. If you are on t.v. for 5 minutes djing what do you do? Play your favorite record? (Unless of course you are Grand Master Flash. Then you’d be rocking the world and laying the ground work for hip hop which at the time was just an idea. ) They asked the dj’s what their record of the year was. Some djs named their own records which is a bit too Paris Hilton for me. Any way...It got me thinking about what my favorite records were this year.
On My Own
- Urlich Schnauss
december 14, 2004 --
Remixed Christmas song ep is now available on ITUNES -Including remixes of "Merry Christmas To Everyone" and “Santa Hugged Me" (originally released on the Morel 4-track cd). "Santa Hugged Me " may be the first Christmas song to acknowlege Santa's bear status.
Santa
Hugged Me december 13, 2004 -- My manager
was in town and stayed at my place this weekend.
december 10, 2004 - Blowoff this saturday night. december 9, 2004-- There are 2 kinds of nude pics guys put up of themselves on line. The ones they take alone, and the ones a buddy takes of them. The alone ones are sexier. december 8, 2004 - funny email: "I
told my friend Paul in LA to check out "Lucky Strike"
and he IMed me sent by chris
december
7, 2004
december 3, 2004 Oh yea-- and a good song. That is actually all that really matters... Go here : BOB
MOULD SOLO PERFORMANCE december 2, 2004 - red state blue state This week's Billboard has a story about Morel and Interpol and the mess of music that has been defined as either Rock or Dance . I’ve always been in between . I think it is because as a kid I was equally exited by my orange 12 inch single of “I’m coming out” by Diana Ross as I was by my blue 12 inch single of “Telegram Sam” by Bauhaus.
I’m
gettting bored with it all anyway. I think most dance and rock is
pretty tired. Hip hop - is a rip off. The best part of new music
is in the middle. The over lap, the gray area that isn’t defined
by itself or what came before it, but more about what came next
to it. Oh yea-- and a good song. That is actually all that
really matters. I just make the record baby, you draw the lines.
nov.
26, 2004 - I can’t believe its the start of another
Christmas season. The year as been full of ups and downs. Looking
at it this morning the ups are all that really matter. Or at least
they are all that help push it foward. nov.
25, 2004 - nov
23, 2004 - “Has the world changed or have I changed?”
nov.
20, 2004 --- The new Gwen Stefani single "What You Waiting For" is genius. The video is equally inspired. Look for brilliance where you find it not where you expect it.
The gain of fall’s extra hour is gone. Up late . nov. 18, 2004 --The poster for next weeks Blowoff. Poster by Pat. nov.
17, 2004 --
nov.
11, 2004 -- Morel show tomorrow night in NYC. @ Crash Mansion
199 Bowery . Band plays at midnight. math for dummies - DJ record bag.... nov. 10, 2004 -- I’m on a sub comity panel for the Grammy’s "best remix" award category. What we do is vote on the submissions and narrow them down from the two hundred submitted to the 5 that will receive the nomination next month. There are 7 panels with 6 members on each- which means in "best remix" Grammy land I have about a vote equal to that of a Senators on the Hill. Which is -- funny.
Been having fun rehearsing with Bob for the live Blowoff Show. nov. 9, 2004 -- Here's a live video of the song "Over" recorded in 2002. "Over" is a simple song about love and loss and the moment in life you realize that the world will knock you down. Here's to being knocked down. Again.
"Over" (QuickTime movie)
(the original version of "Over" is on "Queen Of The Highway" ) november 7, 2004 -- A new review of "Lucky Strike" in this months BPM magazine. BPM refers to me as a "political" singer. I've never seen myself as political. I write about smaller things. I'm political because of where we are-- not because of where I am.
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