The birth of the album
In 2005, I had my first book reading in New York. I had an amazing crowd. Great people. And a few not so great ones. Particularly one. Jenny. Jenny worked for me briefly, as my interpreter in Spain. Unbeknownst to me, Jenny was a “functioning” alcoholic, something I discovered her second day in Barcelona. At the hotel bar, I watched her drink eight Mojitos. Afterwards, she looked over at me with drunk-happy eyes and said, “Louis I want to fuck you”. I politely declined and though she said nothing I could sense she was a bit upset. I asked if she were cool and she said yes. So I didn’t think anything else of it, and invited her to the reading.
The most life changing moment occurred at the reading. After reading one very sad chapter, Jenny seized the opportunity to attack me personally for the way I treated my former girlfriend. After my rebuttal, she said, “Well, I guess we can’t get her perspective,because she isn’t around to share her side.” I was initially perturbed by her remark and the way she came after me, but that night I had an epiphany. I realized that although I’d written the book from an objective perspective, it was still a man’s point of view, and to understand love fully, both sides needed to be heard. The women that I dated also needed to be heard.
Thereby, I decided to write an album from a woman’s perspective on what it was like to love Lil Louis. And with that, again I went back through my diaries, letters, phone calls to find their truth. And I made the same promise to write their truth, no matter how bad or foolish it made me look. So for two years, I removed the entire male half of me away, and in essence, wrote the CD as a woman.In the process, I learned a great deal more about my obstacles, flaws and evolution to the man I am now. It was the most challengingexperience I’ve ever had as a writer. And the most rewarding. Enjoy.