What's new you ask? Not much. I've been splitting my already-thin time between new songs and a soundtrack for a short film. The original score used music from Last of the Mohicans - I'm having a heck of a time putting together songs that can compete with with that soundtrack. I think I'm going to have to steal my roommate's keyboard to give it a big enough sound, but it's already taking me forever. Hopefully it will be good when it's finished; if so I'll probably end up releasing it in some way.

Want a t-shirt? I'm finally ready to sell them... only my camera ran out of batteries again. Once I get a fresh charge I'll get everything posted. I promise.

Anniversary received an editor's pick over at Smother magazine.

Also I worked on a new song today. Here's the demo: No Name

I don't usually post things like this, but intrepid travel writer Rick Steves has a thoughtful and sincere essay about the perceived terrorist threat posted on his website. It echoes many of my own feelings on the subject.

There's a nice review by Jeff up at Delusions of Adequacy. I've always thought he's had the best independent music review site on the internet, and that's all the more true now that Splendid is defunct.

I've got a friend in town for a few days, but I'll post a couple new demos sometime next week.

I'm going to renege on my promise to post all my songs on my site. My original thought was: the more songs available, the more likely that someone will hear a song they like and pass the word on. I was hoping to generate enough traffic to my site that I could eventually get signed to a label.

That's not my goal anymore. I don't want to be on a label, aside from my own (or a friend's), and thankfully the internet makes the traditional music model unnecessary. So, within a few days I will be removing a bunch of mp3s from the site. They'll still be plenty left up, more so than your average band's site, but download everything now if you haven't already done so.

I updated the site big time the other day - let me know if it looks messed up on your computer.

I've got the comments thing working, but it's a little screwy. When you click on it a new page loads and the pictures don't show up for some reason. But it works, so comment away.

Bishop Allen have a great idea going - they're releasing an EP a month for all of 2006 which will lead up to their next full-length album. I might steal this idea and tweak it a bit to work with my schedule... stay tuned...

I need to learn more html; it took me a few hours to put the new version of the site together. Hope you like it.

In a few days I'll start posting interviews on this site - not inteviews I've been the subject of, but interviews I've conducted with various artists in regards to the creative process. It should be interesting; it's the kind of subject I like reading about, as opposed to the fodder that an interview usually consists of.

I finally was able to borrow my friend's battery charger so I'll get some t-shirt pics up soon. For now here's a little demo I put together last night... let me know what you think.

Navajo (demo)

Well I would have put pictures of the LOP t-shirts up if my camera hadn't run out of batteries (and I can't find the charger). So there'll be a delay, but hopefully I can get something up by the end of this weekend.

I've been in both Santa Barbara and Houston the past week, so I haven't been able to work on anything. I will try to be more productive this weekend.

Also, in a week the LOP band is going into the studio to record a demo/ep. I still don't know if the band will be called Lost on Purpose when we start playing shows, but if not it will still be a close cousin to LOP.