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| I've only been interviewed
once. That was when you
interviewed me. Well now you can be interviewed a second time. Cool. More stuff to add. Okay. What's changed since we last spoke? Well, I get to do more creative type work, I get to focus more time on my music than I ever did back then, just because of the crazy hours I used to work, you know, for Honda and what not. And…let's see, what else? What's changed for me, just on a musical scale? Yes. I'd say my writing has gotten a lot better. It's kind of epic…I go through phases of writing and doing my artwork more now than I used to. Back then I used to just focus solely on my music, but I kind of go through waves now, of doing one or the other, but my music's gotten a lot more intense, and more involved. I spend a lot more time on working on a song that I used to back then. I think it shows because, musically, it's gotten a lot better. Excellent. Yeah, I just need to find more time to spend on it. Okay now, before when I talked to you, you had done, one of your most popular songs was "Oh Sarah" and you have done since then, I think, you have done two albums. You've done "Big Deal" and the Rock A Bye soundtrack, and from the Rock A Bye soundtrack, “Music Is My Mistress” seems to be really popular. So what else have you done since the last time we spoke? Since then I've gone through a collection of songs...I've got currently, three projects that I would like to get finished by at least Fall 2009. Since I've finished work on the Rock A Bye EP, I've gone back to some older songs that I was originally working on at the same time I was working on Big Deal and these songs are much less synthetic, and I really wanted to get kind of a, more of a band type sound for some songs of mine. Some of them date back all the way to the early 2000's...there were many songs that just came out of a relationship breakup that I went through, and I had to sit down, back then, and...I poured out all of this music. But I wanted to come back and fill them out and make them more of a solid rock type song, make them into full songs. So, there's many of the songs that I worked on back then that I've come back to reworking. Okay, 2008 to 2009, the three projects, do they have titles? Well, I guess you could call them working titles...they could change, I change stuff all the time, but the thing I'm working on right now is about 8 songs, and right now I'm calling it “Thick and Thin,” which was originally gonna be called “Stagefright.” With this one I wanted [it] to be kind of rock...rock oriented type music...pop rock. The second one is gonna be “Stagefright,” and that one's gonna be more progressive...plays outside the rules. It's not meant to be popular with a lot of people, it's just artistic. And currently, that one's only 5 songs...some of these songs are really long. And then the last one that I have set up for 2009 is...contemporary...and after that entire cycle I'll wanna do some heavy duty, industrial, electronic type stuff. Currently it's called “Joi de Vive,” which means Joy of Life. Right… But that's a long way off, and that one will have a very joyful type sound to it. In beteen everything, I'm constantly writing new stuff. Do you still not want a recording contract? And is it for the same reasons? Um, no. I've learned enough to know that that's not really desirable to me. With the internet, and the network of people, and the do it yourself websites that are out there, I think that there's enough out there, that if you put forth the effort that you really can do it, that you don't have to depend on this giant, corporate monster of a record business, to sustain your living. Because that can change at any moment, and then you're left uncertain, and...I've seen how things get manipulated and changed around, and I just don't see why I'd wanna be part of that. I have no interest in that...if I was a painter, I would not want someone telling me how I could paint...I look at music the same exact way. I just love doing it. I love to write, and I love to record, and knowing that people are hearing my stuff, or if it makes an impact on somebody's life, or if it makes them see something in a brighter way, to me, that's the most important thing. To end, what are your hopes for your music? That it will be of value to people...real value. That somebody who's struggling with something in life finds a fresh way of looking at something, that I could be a positive influence in someone's life, even if I never hear about it. Ultimately, of value...to me that's the foundation of it all, and I just wanna continue doing more of it.
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