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So that's what i'm doing. I'm also mixing a new band out of Seattle right now called 64k. Very old school Revco, Ministry type stuff that I enjoy quite a bit. Jason from SMP is singing for them so it's only natural that I work on their album. That's it. And spending lots and lots of time with my daughter, as I'm going to miss her really bad while I'm gone.
You can download it here.
Upon the urging of our agent and Catherine's dad, we looked around a bit before committing. Um, we didn’t really like anything. There are a million cookie cutter condos in this area. Most of them 300k or more. I hate to put an emotional price tag on a big decision like buying a house, but I’ll do it anyway. It’s gotta feel right. If you don’t really want to live somewhere and you buy it because it makes more sense, you might as well shoot yourself in the face.
So, after even more delays from the lawyer side of things and no real good news to enhance the deal – we just decided to jump. Catherine and I have discussed this to death. Last week she asked me where I wanted to live and I said “In a box. In a box with no fucking assessments, lawyers, agents, nothing.” I’ve thought this through to the point of not even wanting to do it anymore. So there you have it, in spite of all of its imperfections, we’re buying the place we want. We’ll be closing on it the day I get back from tour. I’ll take all y’all some nice pictures.
the process of writing an album, atleast for me, isn't an elementary process. it involves hours and hours of work, sorting out the ideas both in my head and subsequently, in my computer. between just having a kid and being force fed plenty of external drama - grayscale was the mother of all chaos in the writing and conceptualization phase. there were probably 250 demos and I was a distracted, unfocused, wreck. anyway, I decided to make you (as a reward for your infinite patience) a podcast of some of the many, many demos that never became. don't expect full tracks, these are all atomica babies that never really made it. and it might not even be a good listen, but i'm listening to it right now and it's pretty damn enjoyable! (ego?).
there is 1 song that made grayscale on here (just an orchestral/vocal version) - 2 other tracks with very rough Lauren vocals, and even one with my poor excuse for singing is on there. Oh, and the full instrumental version of "Under the Milky Way" that we do live is included.
