december 13, 2022

i am currently in vancouver finishing an album with niko and jules. we are locked away by a mountain and the isolation has been very good for us. lots of singing on niko's part, and a lot of soccer on TV. i think we are cheering for argentina to win the whole thing. this album has been a crazy process. i have had absolutely no time to focus on anything else in my life.
i watched meet me in the bathroom a few weeks ago (it was good), one thing that stuck out to me was when james murphy talked about finding LCD soundsystem as the 'big bang of his life'. i do feel like my life is exploding, expanding into being.
when i first moved to toronto at 18, i was determined at any cost to find any semblance of friendship, and i followed those around me into the music business. i was happy to make anything for anybody. i needed money, and honestly, i really enjoyed a lot of it. but eventually i found myself surrounded by too much artifice: fast-talking LA music bros, corporate drones, and a litany of singers who were indistinguishable from influencers. i support everyone wholeheartedly in their quest for financial independence, but over time, i realized i couldn't keep walking the well-trodden path of that culture. i had dreams of walking endlessly, in circles, in a massive, bustling, pre-apocalypitic city, and every time i would have to sit on the curb and rest my feet. they were so sore.
i'm glad that i have found what seems to be