Talking to my mom on the phone tonight, I realized just how bad I am at keeping people up to date on what’s going on in my world, so I thought I’d give you all a quick update. I’m still hard at work in the studio (my apartment) recording and mixing the “new” Astronaut Down album, which I hope to have done by March. All that’s left to record is a handful of vocal tracks, so we’re making good progress. I just have to work my studio wizardry and somehow make sonic sense of this densely-layered concept album madness.

We’re also trying to put some shows together for this summer around the northeast with Edensong. It’s a lot of work, but hopefully the payoff will be exposing our music to a lot of people who wouldn’t otherwise hear it, and maybe even sell a CD or two while we’re at it. And, you know, maybe we’ll get discovered by some random A&R guy in Boston or Toronto and be catapulted into superstardom. Maybe.

Of course, the trade off for being this busy is that my mind is constantly preoccupied and I can’t seem to manage more than a single coherent thought a day. Today I used it up on a discussion about different laser sounds (specifically the red laser sound vs. the blue laser sound) with my friend Sandy. Tomorrow I think I will proclaim my hat itchy. It’s hard to say. With just one thought, you have to make it count, you know?

Oh, and it’s almost my Birthday! If you want to buy me stuff, I started a Wist, and of course there’s always Amazon. Or if you’d rather buy yourself a present, I recommend Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (which I *finally* finished) or the debut Damiera CD. It’s crazy, in the best possible way. I just might bore you with a long and meandering review of that at some point.

OK, that’s all for now.  Come see Astronaut Down at The Mean Fiddler on Saturday, OK?