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Yea…I aught to force feed new music upon my accidental blog visitors. Sometimes, sitting down with a plan to compose send a thrill through my heart. Sometimes, it feels like a chore. Actually the past few months have leaned more toward the chore side, so how on earth can I make semi-listenable music when I feel like it is forced? I cant. I know the pros can, that is what they get paid for, but you know I have never claimed to be that. I am just a hobbyist.

Maybe me working all the time has had something to do with it. Yea, probably… A feeling of abusing my duties often ensues when I crank up my DAW, then after piddling for a few minutes, I shut ‘er down and start up my IDE and start coding… Ahhh, that’s better. Neither make me more financially stable, but one is a guilty pleasure and the other helps remove the guilt of not working?

Gimme a while, I will have another creative spurt like the last one where 4 pieces (onomatopoeia, Honey Comb, White Noise, Johnny) came to be in as many days..

everybody’s doin a brand new thing,
swimmin in their soft circumstance

Have not been writing lately, although I probably am missing some of the best emotional windows that I have ever had. I guess after such a huge change in life’s patterns, I will need to regroup first. I don’t plan the type music I am going to write, but much of it has been kinda dark over the past couple years. I am hoping that, although my future music will probably be dark like my previous attempts, that it will be the dark right before dawn. Hopefully glowing in the end, with a bright hope of good days. Thanks for listening! -eric

Partyline
Put a bunch of random chord in the sequencer, then arrange them in an order that works, then orchestrate, and Wa-La!

Found My Mind
I don’t know where this came from, but once it started, it just kept a comin’. Kinda pulls from Dream Theater and Deep Purple.

Woke Up Alone
Same theory as Partyline, i like’em laid back

Powder Room
This was a fun song to put together, the feel, and me, just get along..

Nails / Golgotha
My friend John says he wants to do some Hip Hip… Ok, I don’t know how to do hip hop. Shoot, everytime I aim for something musically, it comes out totally different, but I just have to keep at it until I totally weird it out. My guess is that these two would be considered “Industrial?”

Slick
It keeps getting stuck in my head for some reason. Yesterday, I cleaned up on it some then mowed the yard. When you get a song stuck in your head, you dont need an ipod. This is one thing I have come to appreciate about music in church.

Big Tow (big toe)
This one has a guitar solo! Yay!

Thump
Who knows where this one came from. In an attempt to add interest to the song, I injected a sound clip of some people clapping, in a sarcastic joke aimed at my music

Love Shine
This is probably as close to hard rock as I can get. Every time I start for a rock song, it ends up being  theme music for 007.

Presence
Ahhhhhh…….