It's Saturday- I am writing this at 3:42pm. On Saturdays when Sara and I were kids my dad would pick us up at 11am. Some weekends we would go to the mall with him and help lost children find their parents, or read the paper…
dear cheese puffs, i'm really sick today because of how many of you i ate last night. Mr. Chris is always bringing snacks here, trying to raise our spirits with his "healthy" choices. first it was donuts, and now this. you melt in my mouth,…
Hey Everyone! (But really only people who live in and around the Seattle, WA area. Sorry everyone else) So as some of you may know, we are in Seattle! Sara and I are hard at work on our 6th full length record! Seattle is pretty…
Last month in the studio we ate a lot of Mexican. This week we've been eating from the deli at a community market close to the studio. Tonight we took a walk on the wild side and ordered in Indian food. My meal was delicious.…
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When we started tracking in Los Angeles, Chris Walla (producer) suggested we just follow our feelings and instinctively get through the 20 or so songs that we had settled on to record. About a week into recording we all sat down and wrote a list.…
yesterday was a day off. today all hell broke loose. it was real wild. like the 80's. except instead of ladies and coke (not cola) it was costumes + sugar. another tegan pop masterpiece being tracked today. i started fresh with j.m coetzee's DIARY OF…
tegan was recording vocals ALL day and i was able to finish this great book on the couch. i pulled out a second book mid afternoon and chris asked, "did you finish that jonathan ames book?" and i said, "yes, and i would recommend you…
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Today we were a little lost in keyboard world. There was a point where I lost the will to do what we were doing. Sometimes making a record is harder than I remember it. Even though we have done this 5 times previous, I care…