harry potter

Hey, Allison, Jodi and I have finally decided on a name for our upcoming album: Sushi and High Tea. Our tracks are now in the UK in the hands of Chris Conway, who is doing the mastering. Photos today are from the recording sessions of our last album, Myths and Urban Legends.

NaNoWriMo report: 29,762 words written, 20,238 to go. Got less written yesterday because Parki, Jeff and I went to see Harry Potter: Chamber Of Secrets. Doodles updated.

Fun movie; I enjoyed it even more than the first one, probably because I knew what to expect. Allison says that they may have to find different actors to play the child leads in a few movies because the actors will be growing too fast, which will be a shame.

While waiting for the movie to begin, we sat in front of two families who obviously knew each other, one with an 8-year-old boy and the other with a 9-year-old girl. Really cute kids, especially the girl. Jeff started the conversation by asking the girl if she was excited about the movie.

"Yes," she said. "Are you?!"





Jeff admitted that he was excited, but not nearly as excited as his wife, and the conversation continued from there. The girl's favourite character was Hermione, which is why she had combed out her hair to look as much like Hermione as possible. She knew about Richard Harris having died, and that the Ian McKellen (Gandalf) and Christopher Lee (Saruman) were being considered to take over the role of Dumbledore.

Both kids were crazy about Lord of the Rings, too. The boy told me that one of his favourite scenes in the movie was the one with Sam and Frodo in the boat, near the end, and that it sometimes made him cry because it made him think of him and his best friend. I told the girl that I thought Boromir was cute, but she thought (not surprisingly) that Frodo was cuter. Her mom agreed with me, though. :-)





Links/News:

Jeff and Andy and I are hoping to check out the meteor shower tomorrow night.

City Creator: A fun way to procrastinate. I found this on the NaNoWriMo forums.

Three years ago, I was still unpacking stuff after moving into the new Inkspot office.

Four years ago, I had dinner with David Goulden and thought (briefly) about starting Christmas shopping.





Today's Blatherpics:

These photos were taken at various recording sessions for Urban Tapestry's last album, Myths and Urban Legends.

	Dave Clement and Tom Jeffers, from Dandelion Wine, doing their vocal parts for "Sex and Chocolate".
	Scott Snyder, who helped with some of the engineering.
	Adam English and Luis Garcia, from Ookla The Mok, rehearsing before recording their parts for "Teenybopper Love".
	Kathleen Sloan and Paul Kwinn during a musical interlude while recording "Web Surfin'".
	Rand (also as part of Ookla) laying down his bass track for "Leftovers". David Goulden is in the background doing engineeringstuff.