Tokyo Police Club

hey Chet,

sorry for the hold up getting more info to you. i dropped all my marbles down a sewer great and it really sucked up a lot of valuable blogging time. next time i won’t keep them all in one basket, y’know? anyways, we’re on Day #63 of  ”Champ: When the Going Get’s Tough, the Tough Get Golden” and it’s all going very well, if not very very well. after finishing up End of a Spark last night i found myself transplanted to silverlake lounge and subsequently a california burrito found itself transplanted to my stomach. if you haven’t had one, it’s a burrito with french fries in it, part of the well established lax-mex food trend in california. so today i hit up the grocery store and have maintained a diet of fruits and bran which will hopefully earn me some good will from my body if i keep it up. so tomorrow i will still not be at the taco bell, nor the pizza hut, nor the combination taco bell and pizza hut.

right now we’re putting the seal on “Big Difference”. in the ever always changing shuffle of my favourite song on the record, the one is the current place holder, though it’s tied with the other 9 runners-up. this song kinda bridges the gap between our last records and this one. it has some elements that remind us of writing for our EP’s and out last LP, like that its 185 bpm and has no facial hair, but still seems to be an entirely CHAMP song because of the way all the parts are stitched together with the vocals. it’s at the most angular/berserk end of the record’s scope which makes it really important and really fun to play. we wrote bits of it in early ’09 but it really started to come together when Greg added a dash of the most raging drum beat ever. after that it was just a matter of learning how to play it while rotating in the air. it also includes: me and graham singing dreary 0o0o0o0o0ohs, 909 hand claps that whip like devo, Speak’n'Spell, a dry “well”, less big words and more “!”.

anyways, say hi to the fam for me. catch you next time.

dave