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So, after this weekend, I'll have exactly half a record. Well, 6 songs. It may end up being only 10 songs or it may end up being 13, don't know yet. I've been lucky enough to expand the talent pool and get some wonderful people into the studio to work with us. Having this great studio to work at has definitely helped the cause for Atomica Project
We have a few things in mind for the remainder of the album. I'm going to do a song with my friend Julie Meckler. She's going to write some lyrics in French, something that seemed very exciting to both of us last time we spoke. I'm also still planning to reach out to one of my favorite Chicago bands ever, The Assassins, to do a collaboration. And we may cover a track by a relatively unknown folk singer. Not a lot of details on that yet - but stay tuned. I feel great about this record. At the same time, it feels like a new band and I'm not 100% sure about how to approach this conceptually. Hopefully, that will just come to me as it often does.
Still very happy about my decision to kick Facebook to the curb. And honestly, I hope this is a thing we all look back upon and laugh about 5 years from now. "OMG, do you remember Facebook, that was so 2010."
For sometime, I've used Facebook to keep people updated about The Atomica Project. That was okay. I also used it to vent a lot of personal frustration. And to express this lovely biting, sarcastic, sense of humor I've been blessed with. That wasn't quite as okay.
If you know me, at all, you know I wake up early, play with my wonderful daughter, make her smile, laugh, and make goo goo eyes at me. I kiss the woman I'm madly in love with that I've been married to for 18 years. I smile, a lot. I constantly make jokes. As many at my own expense as at the expense of others. I do anything to motivate myself, including reminding myself of people who have pissed me off. I work, excessively. I work on music about 100 hours a week.
My point is - there are a lot of people on Facebook who don't know each other at all that become "friends." At the end of the day, there were just too many "friends" I had that didn't know me at all. The words you write don't have a smile, a wink, or a moment of awkward laughter behind them. It's all very raw. This is the problem with email. And the problem with any kind of written text. It became uncomfortable for me, personally, to defend myself to people I've not spent 5 minutes with. Rather than un-friend half the world, I've decided to cancel my account.
So, we start a new era of Non-Facebook. I'll blog here, about the band, and it'll be nice and simple (I hope!) Our drummer, and our manager will still run our Facebook page, and you can always find us on Twitter. Back to work on the new record.
We will be doing a rare Chicago performance to ring in the New Year on Jan 7th @ Mayne Stage with Dead Superheroes Orchestra. This is our first multiple vocalist performance feat contributors from the upcoming record - Brittany Bindrim (i:Scintilla,) Isabella Farrell (Deathbird,) and Sunny Gray. Tickets are available here.
