Album Update #2

The photo of me is at Plaid Dog Studios, just before my very first recording session a few weeks ago.

I don’t know what it is about traveling for this album, but there was always a catch. Perhaps it’s what travel looks like after lockdown, and I have traveled only infrequently since and haven’t seen the consistent shortfalls.

I’ll keep it short: the trouble around showering on the previous trip inspired me to secure housing for this one. Wanting to keep things on a budget led me to airbnb. I booked months in advance and then a week before travel they canceled my reservation. Yay 😑.

Between rescheduling that with Airbnb’s sluggish customer service, two more last second demos with Producer Carter, a few last second shows and rehearsals scheduled in a panic (because I was going to be gone without income for a week! 😱), doing what I could to pack, and prepare, and help with the baby, house chores, and Grandparents coming, I was stretched thin. A price I paid and still haven’t quite recovered from and it’s been weeks since.

Despite all the fiascos, I arrived in Boston, took a few busses and trains out to my Airbnb in Waltham, MA, checked in, dropped off my bags and promptly locked myself out of my room on the top floor. All of my things, including my phone with the key code, were inside. 🫠

Sadly, this is a true story. I didn’t know that the door automatically locked when it was shut, because when I arrived it was ajar. It was 3:30 in the morning, I had to pee, I traversed the two precarious and not-to-code staircases and realized my blunder all too late.

I didn’t see cameras in the hosts house, but if a candid video surfaces one day titled “guy locks himself out of airbnb, has existential panic” on Reddit’s r/watchpeopledieinside, yes it is me, yes i wear big poofy bonnets to bed, no those aren’t real tears.

my saving grace was a butter knife in the kitchen and watching way too many episodes of “the lockpick lawyer on YouTube”.

I’m going into too much detail in these posts. Next time I’ll try to get to what the actual experience of recording was like!

Cheers,

Reverend Doctor