Slackjaw's Forum

I’m keeping the blue and red paisley carpeting in the family room for the floor of the new studio. I’m expecting my music will be taking on a slightly more psychedelic tone in the next few years…consider yourself warned. In the meantime, all the cream carpet with the little flowers is heading to the dumpster, being replaced by a carpet called Mocha Cream. I’d thought about keeping that for the studio walls, but I’m not sure that’s the environment I want my songs to grow up in…old fashioned flowers and paisley.

Father web, forgive me. More than a month has passed since my last update. What have I been doing to allow so much time to pass? Pulling up roots—the trailer is on the move again. This time we’re hoping for a longer stay, but you know…in this life who can tell? Packing box after box, reassembling the garage, the kitchen, the Shed, the kids rooms, into old liquor and apple boxes, so that when moving day arrives next week, we’ll be ready to load this life into a U-Haul truck and go. At Chroma Sound studios in Seattle, playing guitar with some of the best musicians I’ve ever played with in all the long years I’ve played guitar. Giddy with the fact that I’m more than capable in this company and excited as to what we were able to create. As host to an out of town friend who came via Cardiff, Wales. Breaking down Tacoma into visitor sized excursions over one of the last great weekend before the winter rains set in. To dinner at Charlie’s place, Museum of Glass, 6th Ave. bar hopping, Mexican...