Kristie Addison

1.  My Google Reader is chocka full of politics.  I can’t take it any more!

2.  Today I went to the gym.  I have been meaning to join for a long time and I’m glad that I finally have.  When I got home I ate chocolate biscuits.

3.  I discovered my degrees of separation from my most favorite author Terry Pratchett today.  I play/ed in a band with Tory Staples —> Who also plays in a band called Battle Circus —->  Who recently opened for Amanda Palmer —->  Who’s photo book “Who Killed Amanda Palmer” had text written for it by Neil Gaiman  —> Who co-wrote the book Good Omens with Terry Pratchett.  Small world aye?

4.  I am really pleased with the game music I have done lately, though I keep wanting to do more and more little tweaks because I am on a perfectionist buzz.

5.  With my album I am much less of a perfectionist.  Keeping it indie, keeping it real, it has to sound like it was recorded in a bedroom. I want to finish it in time to go on summer tour.  This summer is just screaming road trip at me.

A little sneak peek of a current WIP. Really rough, not mixed cos still in the recording process on this. Still gotta record drums and redo the bass, record my vocals if I ever get my voice back (thats just my old guide track in there so far), gotta fix up those harmonies a bit (thats my friend James on backing vox, he’s gonna kill me if I don’t make him sound fab).
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Dear Diary Blog Readers.

Today I decided to keep a blog here on this site.  I already have a blog on the site for my recording project transitofvenusproject.com but that’s supposed to be a helpful music type blog or news about my recordings, and I often feel I shouldn’t use it to blog about things like, well… cheese.

Kaimai Cheese

I discovered a great cheese place on Monday.  I already knew of it’s existance due to my mother often bringing me cheeses she had picked up on her way up to Auckland from Tauranga.  But on Monday I stopped there myself for the first time.  It’s called Kaimai Café and Store, and it’s also a cheese factory.  It is in Waharoa, just on the Auckland side of Matamata.  Definitly worth stopping if you’re driving past, they make a decent cup of coffee as well as excellent cheese.  Nice lemon cake too.  Their website is www.kaimai.co.nz and you can order their cheese online or find a local stockist.

The places to be this weekend….

Today is Halloween, and I am inundated with Halloween party invites.  I have trawled through them all and eventually managed to plan my weekend.

Tonight, Galatos to see Deja Voodoo play along with my old friends Miscreant and Litvak attack.  The door charge is only $10 if you dress up.  I’m still trying to decide what to go as, probably something lame like a vampire.  I’m tempted to put a black streak in my hair and go as Susan Death, but I’m not sure that all my too-cool-for-discworld friends will get it.

Tomorrow night its off to The Basement for Decortica’s album release party.  I haven’t seen Decortica live before, but two of my favorite bands will be playing support, Battle Circus and Infinite Flying Kick.  If you’re in Auckland and haven’t seen these bands, I really think you should!  Battle Circus have just returned from a tour of Australia, Europe and the USA and I can’t wait to see how much more awesome they could get while they were away.

Sunday night is the last night for Jester Events Acoustic series at The Crib in Ponsonby, always a nice relaxed and fun evening.

I am changing the site template as you may have noticed (if not, try hitting refresh – or you’re reading from an RSS feed lol).  This tends to be a very slow process, because for some reason – my add on domains take a lot longer to acknowledge changes than my main domain.  I wish I could get to the bottom of this, because it’s very frustrating sitting here clicking refresh, and clearing my cache, and wondering if the changes I have made have worked at all.  Any ideas on this?

On a marginally less geeky note… Yay!  Today is the day I will get my latest song back from mastering.  And it is exciting, becuase I’ve just realised it will be Transit of Venus Projects first song actually finished and released as a single!  (I must finish some of these other demo’s some day).  It will be only released digitally (iTunes and Amplifier), apart from a tiny tiny limited edition run (25 signed and individually numbered).  The first 10 of these are for the people who were involved in this project, but if you want one of the others they’re $10NZ (+ postage), give me a yell kristie@kristieaddison.com and I’ll sort you one out.  First in first served.

OK, I will probably post again soon with more details and a streaming MP3

Here’s a few recording pics in the meantime, none of me though.  I record alone!

^ Mike Johns (Revolution Brother) bends it like Beckham.  Sometimes.  Though, I’m not sure if he actually is doing that in this picture.

^Angel (Annoying Fox Terriers of Doom) gives Mark some good advice on simultaneous barking and drumming.

^Mark Towel (Stapleton) closes his eyes and wears his headphones over only one ear so he can pretend he’s a DJ.