Duophone Dot Com: Mike Britt

How do you spell Solstice

I feel as if the solstice is a curved point at the end of an elispse, forever cycling while travelling forward in time. I cannot wait for the day, because after that it's all looking upward :)

I am coming home late night tommorow.

I Love The Radio

I found an FM radio station in LA that accepts mp3s via email. I sent them some songs by myself and aecidium and they claim to have played them. So yeah send me an email at mikeATduophone.com if you want me to send something that we worked on.

New Place!!!

So now I live on the border of Ridgewood and Bushwick... take the Halsey stop on the L train and walk a block and a half! This beats the shit out of the six block subway to home ratio of the previous place, and last saturday night mark got punched in the back of the head and almost mugged by four thuggz.

So all my stuff is moved into a room now... I'll take pictures and post them at some point. The place I live in now is very cold, but after I buy a space heater it will be tolerable. So far this really feels like this is where I will stay until June. I knew it when I first visited about two months ago. You can smoke in the hallways!

In the middle of the night a water pipe broke and ruined several people's apartments. We all were taking pictures for legal reasons after helping them transport their stuff to other apartments. Several paintings were ruined!!! Boy am I glad to live here. In the time of crisis at three a.m. everyone pulled together and helped out. In the midst of the disaster I felt really good about the environment I'm in now. I feel like this could be my home. At least until June.

I'm really into this business of music class I'm in - I've started REALLY writing the buisness plan for Gizmotron Delivery Service (we deliver YOU to the PEOPLE) and when I get out of school although I will make most of my income from engineering in REAL studios, I wish to register my business and try to borrow money for more equipment. I found that for an investment of less than $5000 I can upgrade gizmotron to the point where I can REALLY fuck shit up.

I did a websearch for gizmotron and I didn't like what I found. I need a new name for my business.

I'm addicted to myspace - I've been talking to alot of people on there and it's really fun. It's too cold to go outside.

http://profiles.myspace.com/users/9610939 - if you're not on myspace you better sign up so we can be friends. This site is 100% better than friendster ever was.

I recorded a new song yesterday. Ask me about it next time you see me

2004 Slowly Comes to a Close

On Sunday I will be moving to Bushwick... Today on the way home my bag broke. Earlier, on the way to school I stood next to an elderly woman on the L-train who had the same bag. I wish I could remember my dreams. By the end of the week I will have spent all of my money.

I am passing the time playing guitar and doing internet promotion for kirsten dehaan.

Layne Staley Tribute Album

Well, since spring of 2002 one of my wildest fantasies was to record a layne staley tribute album, so I put up an ad on craigslist and I got replies from several drummers, in addition to Joe Vallee and Aaron Ruppel who said they would do it when I asked them over a year ago. Is this really going to happen?

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/muc/52109181.html

I'll do it for one reason only, ...I miss the the
dude! -sic vic massive drums and head stomping

Hey, how is it going? I saw your ad and thought I would give it a shot. I am a guitarist/singer. I see that you have a few guitarits already but if any fell through I would love to be a part of this. AIC was a huge influence on me and my band. My singer would also be perfect. If you want one or both of us we would look forward to it. Thanks, Tommy

Whats goin on.  I'm 22 years old. I've been playing for almost 10 years, can play great in any style, Im a fast learner and have excellent improv skills. I can basically play anything you throw at me. Ive been playing in bands since i was 13 and I have extensive recording and live experience. I am a huge AIC fan and have to be a part of this. I dont care what songs we play as long as we do would and no excuses and id like to do my own thing but keep it close to seans drums. -Wolf

I'd looooooove to play on would or I stay away. I'll play the song as is but might add some fills. Only ?'s i have are when are you starting this and
where will you be recording. -Thanks Enzo

Please give me some more info on the project. And please put me down for No Excuses and Heaven Beside You (I'll go back and check out some other tracks I dig too). -Thanks and hope to hear from you soon, Charlie Zeleny

I would love to be a part of this project. It sounds awesome if done
correctly. I have been playing for about 20 years. I am a huge fan
of Layne's, Alice in Chains and Mad Season. I wouldn't mind playing
any track he put out. However the most meaningful to me are the ones
with Mad Season. You can really feel his struggle with his demons in
his lyrics. He turned his personal pain into such beauty as he often
did. I would choose either Lifeless Dead or Artificial Red. -Dave

living afternoon

ninety-nine miles
south of here
in a living afternoon
the slient streets
often overstated
say nothing gets out?
well at least I did
now i'm getting out of that

Monroe and Classon

This is Mark.





Mark invites me to meet his two new roomates. Mike is offered a deal to stay at this new location for a fee of utilities and internet until december 15th, when I move. Mark and I are glad to live together.







We watch alot of tv and spend time on the computer with our wireless cards - we pay for internet but half of us use a wireless signal from someone else. In addition to this we have a router sitting in a box.







This is Brian. Mike Drennen tripped over the cord for his computer so now he is very sad. Is it broken?







Myself and dQ







so we went to take the subway and mark finds some kind of bottomless pit. he throws a found object inside the chasam. (That was my same matchbook from earlier in the day)







we're waiting for a train to manhattan - this entire process takes a long time.







after hours of waiting the train finally comes







and then mark got to sing

Indonesian Food

So last night I spent my first saturday night in New York. In exchange for setting up her stereo and buying the speaker cable DQ (the girl on our lease) took me out to some indonesian resturant where we had amazing and expensive food.

Fake Velvet Revolver

There is a fake velvet revolver song called "faithful". But I like it. Does anyone know who it is?

3/4 Fried Pizza

My first saturday night in brooklyn. Being poor in New York is hilarious. Mark and I are very excited because I just remembered I have 3/4 a slice of pizza plus crust from earlier today in a bag in the kitchen.

(fifteen minutes later...)

Ok Mark and I are eating fried pizza. It's really good. There was a whole slice with only one bite eaten, and a half-assed pizza crust which was as much pizza as there was crust but the oven wouldn't work so we pulled out a frying pan and put butter on it and we fried the one slice, while dipping the cheese side of the crust thing directly on the pan and each piece was split in two. The dogs outside are barking.

Mike Drennen in NYC

I looked online for a map so that I could tell drennen how to get here. then he did. we had fun. in the morning we woke up and had more fun. then he left.

It felt like that movie "The Matrix"; I was on the computer looking at maps and with the cellphone I'm telling drennen where and how to turn so he could find the train station so he could take the path to WTC. I instructed him to take an E to canal street, where I would take G - A to meet him. We arrived at the same time.

We got off at W4 on A and walked ALL THE WAY over to ave A and then walked around looking for a cool bar. I stopped at "Sal's Pizza" and then we went next door to a bar that I previously wanted to go to, but it was really lame. We had one beer.

We walked six more blocks in the freezing cold to go to my FAV bar. This place is on 14th and 1st and it has south jersey prices. We each got a mixed drink and it came to $9 total. I rolled a joint and then we took the L to G, where we got fucked by the G train system (this happens every night) and we arrived back home like an hour after I told Mark we would meet him.

We started off the evening by going to sputnik, and ended the evening by stopping at Crown Chicken and walking the six blocks back home where we smoked and passed out.

In the morning I ended up waking the same time I always wake up, and we went with Mark on the subway towards where he goes to work. What sucked was that I got off (and drennen followed) at the spot where I thought Mark was getting off and I hear "mike! MIKE!" and I turn as the subway doors close and we wave goodbye as our long time friend speeds away from our lives.

We walked around and eventually went to this pizza place laura told me about where they offer two slices and a soda for $3.25 - then we went to Union Square and parted ways.

Kirsten Dehaan

http://www.kirstendehaan.com/ is my new boss. She's an artist from Indiana, and I'm going to be doing PR work for her. It would be cool you went to her forum and started talking about ANYTHING. http://www.kirstendehaan.com/ - Unlike most of the people I worked with, I had no part in creating the product; this time my purpose is to get people to hear it. Have you listened to her music yet?

Grand Central Bar

Mark and I went with our roomate Brian to some bar that has karaoke on wednesday nights but after the half hour journey to get there it was not going on. Yeah, just a bar. The good news was the beer was only $3.00 so we all sat down for a while. Some guy that looked like Hulk Hogan's older decrepid cousin started talking to us about how overrated the Doors are. Mark agreed with him while Brian and I ate all the chips.

On the way back the subway system fucked us - We were so fucking bored that Mark fell asleep and I started clipping my toenails. After waiting a very very very long time we went to the surface so I could hit an ATM and we somehow found a cab. I remember running into the middle of the street to get in front of it and frantically waving my arms.

Since when was mike britt a DRUMMER?

Sputnik houses OPEN JAM on tuesday nights, and as of last week it was done for good and the bar got fined, but somehow an agreement was made so that it could continue but next time they get in trouble the blame gets put on this guy Flynn who apparently puts all of this together.

Mark and I walk in to see two guys on stage with guitars who seem to be unable to get the jam started, so we get in on that and cause some cool atmospheric stuff... Then later some old man and his wife show up (when they walked in everyone looked at them. Apparently he came all the way from San Diego to play open jam at Sputnik. I ended up playing drums for him all night due to default, but Mark got "kicked out" because he refused to conform to his 1-4-5 blues progressions which apparently were all this superstar knew how to play.

I wanted to be like "WELCOME TO NEW YORK OLD MAN WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TELLING US WHAT TO PLAY NOW JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND IMPROV LIKE A *REAL* MUSICIAN!!!" But I kinda thought the guy came a long way and his wife was watching and because of my terrible timing as a drummer I kept my mouth shut and did his swing/shuffle beats for three hours.