Just a quick note from the studio today, before we start in again on recording. Things are Hot Hot Hot here, both the music and the weather ( I wonder if I will ever made an album in the winter? ) The music is the most beautiful music I have ever heard and , quite simply Magic. I know we haven’t said a great deal about what exactly we are doing out here this week, but as soon as it gets a little farther along, we will let you in on everything.

Working with Chris is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. ( ok, I am funny in the morning , yes , we know how much fun they are , hee-hee , ) The three of us work really well together. We do my parts in the morning and early afternoon, while Nocturna slumbers in her crypt , and then she sings in the evening and long into the night, while I drift off listening to her vocals. ( no bad way to go to sleep that ) Chris works the entire time and seems to be as happy as a man can be.

It’s been three days now in the studio and we have reached the Zone. Everything is funny, and you get to a place where there is no longer anything BUT the studio. I am not sure anyone would recognize the Glamour that is currently Lorraine a’ Malena. You say things to eachother on a really basic level and don’t think anything of it, like me to her ” do you know you have been wearing my pajamas for three days now, you had better put on some deodorant” or her to me ” you can see right thru that skirt, put on some darn underwear ” ( I am sure that she has a few anecdotes for you as well , not to worry )

Malena records with an ice pack on her head and the headphones on to keep it in place and we have learned if tape is not rolling to get the AC on fast.

We have learned to take breaks and to keep eating.

We have learned that sleep is food.

And we now know, more than ever, that music is magic.

Love, Lorraine

We have been having a DAY here, Lorraine a’ Malena have. Due to the complete insanity that is thee LAX Airport, despite arriving two hours early for her flight, poor Malena missed her flight to Minneapolis, and of course, our connection to Boston. United, helpful airlines that they are booked her on a non-stop to Boston. Actually, this would have been helpful except that the flight they booked her on was not only sold out, but overbooked and had no room even on the standby list.

( This is , apparently, some sort of Holiday Weekend and there are no flights with space anywhere. )

They did however, make sure that her bags got on the flight. Not to worry THEY are safely in Boston for the recording session.

They then offered her a variety of flights arriving in Minneapolis at some point on Sunday. Of course, they were not about to help her get from Minneapolis to Boston, that was Northwest’s problem says they. No matter that her flight to Boston left SATURDAY.

Enter me and the most wonderful Northwest agent ever. ( Joyce, if you are reading this, you truly have saved us, the album , our careers and most likely happiness for all time )

I’ll make a VERY long story short here. Joyce saved us. She, all the time we were still dealing with United ( I had Northwest in one ear, and Malena in the other )and getting sadder and sadder, held the LAST seat on the only flight with seats left on a Northwest plane going from LA to Minneapolis today and put Malena on it, once our options ran out with United. She then re-booked BOTH of our tickets to Boston on Sunday morning. So we could fly together. I am certain bending an incedable amount of rules in the process.

United, to be fair, did come thru in the end, when I had to re-book Malena’s third leg of this trip, as she forfeited the ticket by not using the first part, she could not just do the last leg ( weird airline rule ) they applied the entire cost of the not taken United trip to the cost of the one way third leg trip.

We made 26$.

Malena is now on her way here to Minneapolis, ( after spending the day at the airport, many thanks to Miss Kitty for rescuing her and taking her to lunch ) and I will soon go and pick her up. ( or scrape her up, the flight she was meant to be on was WAY early and she had not slept , nocturnal creature that she is, she was planning on sleeping on the flights ) and , ( again ) WAY early tomorrow morning, we will go , together, on a plane to Boston.

And make some music.

Love and Airlines, Lorraine ( and Malena )