Slowing Down...

I’ve made myself slow down and breathe because time, too, is an illusion. I keep feeling like I am running behind, like there is another item on the to-do list.


...clean the fret board and re-string.

Anyway, I got to get around and do some contacting people, after I took a breather. I should be thankful that my sickness last week forced me to rest. When I rest I sometimes realize that God is taking care of me. He is making me an instrument. My heart is being rewarded. I trust that there is a day in my future when I do less non-musical things.

Evil tries hard to distract me. What used to work no longer works. What remains is a strength I’m not often enough grateful for and mostly unaware of. Thank the Master of the Sky!

Music shows me the world.

And what do you see in my music? What you see will tell me a lot about you, and about me, for the second time. I’ll learn about the general condition and what it means to have special consideration. Life, love and the pursuit of truth. Only the pursuit however, because I have come to understand that the most important thing is the feeling. And most times, I feel. So, I make a note of those feelings. That is my job. And that is what I do best.


I don’t write so that I can become a conversation piece, but it is nice to help set off a discussion. At the end of the day I don’t need to know what they are saying at their tables. But I feel wonderful when my voice is taken with you.

The Comforter

“The Comforter” is insane! Again, track two has proved the record more than any other. It’s head-over-heals pop! It is completely rebellious with the vocals. It has an abundance of hand claps and china crashes. Fun!

I’m trying to sound vaguely like a sell-out. Actually, I am making use of sell-out principals. [Thank you very much.]

Now that the drums are here I can tell that they are overly jubilant but have not overshadowed a lyric one. Success! Middle ground! Bargaining! Chance Taking! Now that I can focus, the record begins to come alive again.

Inspiration

I feel so inspired! I have learned so much from the making of the last two records. Now that they are done, I can put the majority of my focus on Industrial Nowhere.


Underneath my inspiration, however, is a fear that the third leg will not live up to the last two. But these are the thoughts I always think when I am distracted... when I am being fearful.

So, I’ve taken the doubt and I have used it. After all, this is part of the theme!

Done!

Finished! The work is done! The record that would not be born IS!

Yes, Dark Reds and Purples is finished. Be sure to get yours. I have plenty for all!

Perfection

At this point I am done with the soul of the new record, but still haven’t finished the old one’s production. I am very sorry for this but it just has to be perfect...


The new record’s title has become “Industrial Nowhere.” It’s become about recording in different moods and in different places. It has to do with the pressures of work. It’s sounds a lot like the pain from the pressure coming from above: it most closely speaks to and about the most oppressed. And just so you know… the lower you go, oppression and exploitation of the weak still exists… the proposed weak, that is.