this exit

OK, so over a month with not a word on either the blog or the main page until the appearance of This Exit…I’m not sure what to say, other than between an internet connection that’s a bit better now than it was a couple weeks ago (but still not, how you say, RELIABLE) and a musical that zapped up a lot of my creative energies until it closed last Friday, it wasn’t easy (if at all possible at times) for me to devote myself so much to the site. But hopefully in the coming weeks, updates will be a bit more regular and the two “new” albums will be up and running by sometime in September.

What do I have up my sleeve after that? Ideas in various stages of production (with no guarantee that any of them will be completed in a timely manner) include an album devoted more to vocal harmonies, a “musical” of my own, and a film soundtrack. Yeah, art!

solitary hootenanny

While I’ve been able to keep up with the unofficial Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday updates for the site (despite some extremely close calls recently), it seems that I was just unable to work on Solitary Hootenanny until this Friday’s Fourth of July OMG AMERICA EXTRAVAGANZA. As you should know, internets here are fickle during the day, and I’m sometimes tuckered out by the time it works again at night, and still really tired by the time it zonks out again, so it places my sleepy body in quite a predicament.

But before the nets go bye-bye, I must get this entry published. Happy Belated Canada Day!!!!!

boats

I’ve a confession to make: I chose Boats for today’s song because I didn’t feel like typing up lyrics. I really should type up the entire album’s lyrics before I begin posting any song, but I’m such a lazy person that it’ll never happen.

Well, maybe I’m not completely lazy. I’m nearly at the end of a near-month-long crazy-busy time for me, involving among other things: work, theater, and lack of internet during my free time. While the internet problem may still be around, after today I should be doing the play for maybe two or three days a week until the end of the first week in August. Maybe I’ll pick up a few extra shifts at work, but not to the extent that I did before, as I had one week where I worked six days while rehearsing for four days.

So yeah, I hope you enjoy yet another instrumental. [smiley face]

armageddon

Oh man, this site is totally lying to you. Apparently, just because I updated this site at 11 PM Eastern Standard Time on the 24th, because in GMT it’s the 25th it’s going on this dang universal time. I mean, come ON my internet here can only seem to work either really early in the morning or really late at night, and I’ve been rehearsing for a play and working a lot so my body gets tired and has trouble functioning at such an ungodly hour. I imagine those of us on the west coast of North America (who give a crap about such a subject) have an even more difficult time, pun unintended (but I wish it had been) with the issue. Curses!

So Armageddon is a song about happiness in a time where no one is thinking about how awful GMT is.

Edit: So I guess I was wrong, and now the links have been fixed to show that I did, indeed, make an entry on the 24th. I thought it said 2008/06/25…but what’s done is done, and now I have yet another entry that is pretty much all crossed out.

eden lost

Hold on! It’s a busy day for me, and I don’t have enough time to update the page this morning, plus internets during the middle of the day here seem to be iffy at best. I’ll do my best to work on this one when I can, so just hang on!

Huzzah for another late update! Eden Lost originally had lyrics, but I didn’t really like how they couldn’t quite fit into the music, so I decided to make it an instrumental, and a leading track at that! Who does this, I ask! Surely, there must be some songwriter of sorts who makes primarily lyrical pieces of music but has the occasional instrumental that could lead off ONE of their albums. And I’m not talking about something like Metal Machine Music or The Mix-Up where it’s ALL instrumentals despite the artists who are best known for songs with lyrics. Sigh, I’m sure there’s SOMEONE out there who will humble me. Maybe?

eights collide

What’s all this about a second solo project? I must be mad with power, like that Bill Callahan guy.

So the first amj “single”, Eights Collide, has a much different feel from anything I made with any of my previous bands mainly in that the country life of central Vermont pervades much of it. I believe that this song had been inspired by a traversing across the street from our house during a warm spell where some of the snow from the winter was still around but it had mostly melted away, creating these vernal pools at the bottom of the hill. I’m learning to walk around without shoes. It’s a wonderful feeling to walk through the mud.