...if only I could be as cool as you...

Things are certainly progressing now. We are almost getting in there consistantly now. It is definitely helping already. We have gotten refocused and are really working when we are in there. All in all, things are just looking up.

We have decide to go back to our original plan on focus working on a single track, the track tentivaley named "In This Corner". It's hard for me to describe the vibe or sound of the track. It's a fairly simple track. It has a quiet part and a loud part which alternate a few times, no real change, and then a curve ball of an outro. Besides that, I really couldn't tell you what kind of a sound it has, or tell you who, or what band, it might be compared to. I basically hesitate to do that. I won't do it.

The track itself is still fairly raw. Of course it is, but we have made a little progress with it I would say. For the first time we are really, really paying attention to the details of the song. We even took a little time to let just Mike and Rook work together on the outro part, to make sure that the sound of the drums and the bass were matched and smooth. That is something that I really don't recall ever doing. I mean, we took some signifcant time out to do this. It seem to make a difference to. I was glad to just spectate at them work together and try to get on the same page. I was very impressed, and very proud. We also made some simple, but significant, realizations while doing this. Nothing earth shattering or revolutionary at all, but something that we need to do. Keep it simple for now, get the track down as much as we can, and let the changes and fill in's come naturally as we progress through the song.

All it all, it seems as if we have made huge strides and signifant progress since that one bad rehearsal night, and the discussion that soon followed. For now, we are trying our best to stick to what we say and just continue to work hard and get the first real track finalize, or at least for now. It's a great feeling of accomplishment already, and of course it should only continue to get better as we keep on going!

Everything has chains... absolutely nothing's changed

It's still a growing process after all of these years. I mean, I don't know it if every ceases to be one, but it is the case with us. I don't know how long it is been since Me, Raymond, and Mike decided to get the studio space together and to try creating music on our own (maybe a year and half…longer?! - I would have to check that out), but what it boils down to is that we almost essentially feel like we are at square one. It might very well be the case, it might not, it all depends on how you look at things I guess.

Things haven't moved as we probably all hope it would. For whatever reason, things get pushed back, postponed, or what ever, but that is ok…that stuff happens. We just have to make sure that we stay on top of things. We probably lost a little time. You can probably say that we dragged our feet a little this year, but there has been situations (mostly work related situations) that have caused this to happen. Ok, there isn't much we can do about this, outside of looking for a new jobs. So, we all deal with it the best we can. In my mind, this has got to be the biggest contributor to slowing us down.

Every so often we realize what is going on and have to step back and have an open discussion of sorts. We talk about what has happened and try to map out something's. I think that we are pretty good at that. We all know what needs to be done. At the same time, it is good to have that open forum. It's a relief to know that we are all on the same page, or seem to be any how. We had to do this again this past Thursday, which just so happen to come after a not-so-great practice (on Tuesday). It was very positive, and necessary to do.

Having said all of this, it is so cool and such a great feeling to see this thing grow, not matter how slow that might be. I mean it has started from nothing...no direction, no plan, just nothing, and has started to take some sort of shape. Sure, we have a long, long way to go, but already you can see that some positive things have happen, and it will continue to get better, I have no doubt about that. I think that we have grown, musically, from when we initially got in the studio and plugged in. You can see and hear that. We still have to find our identity, and which direction, musically that we plan on going in. That is going to be the exciting part. Watching it continue to grow and move. From this point on, I think that we are going to "get back on the horse" and start to make things happen.