I haven’t gotten much sleep this past week. I spent four days recording a plethora of L.A. bands for a new Sean Carnage film, Friends in Other Dimensions and one night talking to a small but enthusiastic music business class at West L.A. College.

Last Tuesday I was summoned to Pehrspace to record one of my favorite local bands, HEALTH, who were leaving on a US tour the following day. On Thursday night I spoke for almost three hours at the bequest of teacher and musicologist Nathan Bush. Clearly passionate and determined to educate themselves, I enjoyed sharing my experiences and opinions with the students in attendance. It felt good to put some of this information to good use. People ask me about running Sounds Are Active all the time, maybe one of these days I’ll write a book. I’d better hurry up though, the music business may be ending soon.

Without much time to catch my breath I was an emergency hire to engineer three more days of recording at Pehrspace. Excluding HEALTH, I ended up recording all of the bands or artists in 72 hours: Bad Dudes, Foot Village, 14 Year Old Girls, the Munchers, Bark Bark Bark, Ty Segal of Epsilons, Whitman, Anavan, Laco$te, Weekend Warrior, Kyle H. Mabson, Robin Williams on Fire, Tik/Tik, IE, Holi Buffaglow, Abe Vigoda, Team Andrew, Bon Voyage, Juiceboxxx and The Mae Shi. Each were set up with a full studio quality mic rig and recorded in full 8-channel audio. The bands paraded by essentially in rotating fashion: noise, punk, metal, pop, rock, electronic, faux-hop, dance, folk, no wave… sounds like a Sean Carnage film doesn’t it?

Sleep might be for suckers but my headache is coming back.