Closer, No Hesitation...

Finishing touches on the EP. New mixes, new mastering and all uploaded for your perusal. Basically just needing to get the artwork together for the discs, then it'll be released. Will be available on iTunes as well.

After a semi-year of computer crashes, hard drive …

I Was Up Above It

I just wanted to take a quick look, honest. I wasn't intentionally breaking my schedule and stealing more time for music than I'd allocated. I was just curious about what I'd used as EQ setting on a vocal...

I opened up Logic Pro for what was to be just a quick peek …

Silence Is Not The Way

One thing I've learned about songwriting is that songs move at their own pace, always fighting with new ideas for the brain's attention. Last weekend, for instance, I had a definite plan of attack for the four or five songs currently most developed. I even had note made …

Work All Of My Days For This Kind Of Praise

Just in case you hadn't noticed, there's a new look for this page., and it features my favorite thing about virb- you. Not to be all corny or anything but I wanted show the people who've made this all worth while. Thank you for all your comments and messages. I hope you …

I Haven't Met You Yet

I miss the podcast.

I miss recording and editing late at night and leaving my mess for the world to see, I mean, hear. I miss putting up tracks as soon as they're recorded. I miss that.

But, as you may well know, I am hard at work writing and recording new songs. …

I Will Love You Until The End of the World

The Unsustainable Podcast and this unsustained.com are closing.
I'm moving all aegis projects to their respective URLs currently.
The album, Reason For Insomnia, is coming together fairly quickly now- tentatively scheduled for a mid to late November iTunes release.
The …

It's The News Of The Day

"Stars come down in you"
-The psychedelic Furs

Excited very much to be collaborating on new material with Race to Ruin. Had an initial session a couple of weeks ago and got lots of tasty guitar recorded. I've had a blast going over parts and contemplating the …

Parthenogenesis

"No one move a muscle as the dead come home"
-Shriekback
This post precedes an actual podcast, so no need to fret over me, no need to pine over my picture awaiting the next Unsustainable. Wait, does anybody even still listen to this? I know I don't, but for the sake of …

No Wonder it's Dark

Japanese train stations have individual theme songs that play periodically over the PA systems. Why is that? I suspect is has to do with drunken memory.
Last month I was at Kyoto station listening to it's theme and I remembered Tomoyuki Sugimoto's excellent pocast, …

Charm's in Limited Supply

I don't know what my problem is but I seem to be getting worse when it comes to the sound quality of these podcasts. Plus why do I sound like I'm lisping? I don't lisp. Fucking de-essers.
Episode 16: More studio talk. Three songs.
Thanks to all the podcasts who've been …

Somewhat Damaged

"Time out or Timer Inactive"
~Logic Pro and Logic Express
Well, so much for maintaining the momentum.
I've been pulling my hair out [It's already shaved] trying to get a hold of this mess that I've made of my studio. For nearly three weeks I've not been able to launch …

Hordes

Hordes is really a song that defined a new level of sound for me. Quite simple in structure, I think it was that that gave me the freedom to really spend sometime developing some of the other elements. I get bored with a song fairly easily and find it more exciting to …

A Minor Question

This song is as close to lounge as I'll ever get. At least I hope. Definitely a reaction to Hordes, I wanted to open up the atmosphere, as Hordes seemed relentless, if not single minded.
Along with Hordes, A Minor Question sets the stage for Why Are You So Illogical?, …

Why Are You So Illogical?

The third in what I did not yet know was a series. Why Are You So Illogical merges the concerns and aesthetics of it's immediate predecesors.
This was a lot of fun, recording this song. I started just with a guitar sound I wanted to emulate [my guitar's not in the …

Reconstruction Time [again]

Well, somehow I managed, between Flash projects and CSS dreams, to figure out my Logic Pro troubles. It was rather simple and thanks to the moderators at Logic Pro help I was able to recover, and, more than that, understand the problem and guard against it in …

Until I Find The Righteous One

Am I the Prodigal Son? Always making a comeback and on my knees begging forgiveness? Or am I taking you, Dear Listener, for granted, knowing you'll always be there? I don't know if the latter is true, but assuming it is, either scenario's fine with me. Dirt

I Do Believe It's True

"I know our filthy hands can wash one another's..."
~DCFC
Broke through the writer's block.
All at once, last weekend (10 days ago) I got three (yeah, I said three) ideas down. I think maybe the block was just me gearing up to move my songwriting to another level, …

Okay, Okay, Come On!

It's hiatus time again. [I know, around here it's always hiatus time, sorry]
I'm working on two albums currently, one, another aegis project, the other with Vasilios, which we'll release under the name Chymical Wedding. I'll have a site for that project up in the …

Awoke With Distaste

"...It is a twisted string"
~Joanna Newsom
It's heart-breaking to lose a piece of yourself [you own it- it's your self, damn it]. And I lost a piece of myself, albeit a small piece, but whatever, it's gone.
Through some computer quirk, or whim, or whatever, I lost all …

the shape of things to come

Let's see.

The next aegis project is being worked on. Songs are being written. It's tentatively called Reason For Insomnia, which is apropos for the way my schedule is of late. I'm toying with an overall theme, sharpening it to give the album [E.P.?] further …