"Wheels Come Off" Online

Recording is done! The songs are mixed, mastered and put to bed. Me and the boys in the band are pretty pleased with the results, five massive tracks to pummel your brains with a barrage of repeated sonic epiphanies. Hence the title the Salvo EP...

Still a mess of work to be done, the artwork rigamarole, pressing and other release options like download cards, which a lot of bands are using as a cheaper alternative to producing CDs. (Editorial aside: would you be more likely to buy a CD, or a digital download?) Expect the full EP to surface early on in the new year.

In the meantime, because we love you, the lead track "Wheels Come Off" is available now for streaming and download at MySpace and ReverbNation. It's a bit of a soaring, brilliant beast, a six-minute slab of all the new band can do. Check it out, and let us know what you think! Plenty more to come....

Final mix-down at Iguana

We're into the final mix-down phase for our upcoming Salvo EP. I'm blogging from Iguana up in Downsview as Marc mixes "Fightsong", one of the tracks we've been working on. It sounds great on their absolutely massive SSL board. Trying out BlogWriter, a handy little app for my iPhone. If you like the short and sporadic approach to blogging, check out my twitter feed at http://www.twitter.com/sneydman. We're in the middle of a very long day. The work is painstaking and fiddlesome, but wow when the final mix goes up, it sounds pretty superb. The guys here (Vic, John and Luke) are really laidback and knowledgeable. I'm capturing some pics and video snippets which should see the light of day over the next few weeks. The EP is still a ways off, but we should be posting a lead track in the very near future. Till then!

Demo of "The Real Heart" up at MySpace

Well we're **still** plugging away in the studio. It's amazing how long it can take. Especially with a couple of compulsive perfectionists in the band! ;p

I can tell you that the EP is close, but you may not see it till the new year. We've got five super-solid tracks coming together, that are 90% done, but there's a lot of finishing and finesse in that final 10%.

You can get a sneak peak at one of the songs at my MySpace page. This is a production demo of "The Real Heart". The final version will sound similar, but with new vocals, drums, bass, guitar, etc. etc. So yeah a totally different song! Nah, it'll be close. Just more polished.

I'm really enjoying working with the band, bringing Zack on drums and Scott on bass into the collaboration Marc and I have been developing over the past few years. The end result should be pretty cool. And a wee bit massive!

In the running for RedGorilla

While the band's busy recording new material, I'm in the running for a slot at the Red Gorilla Music Fest in Austin in March of 2009. "The Prisoner" is currently at #3 at OurStage.com. Swing on by the site to vote for the song and help put the Sneyd over the top.

Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards

All of Us Cities has been nominated for Best Rock Album of the year in the Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards! Nifty. Adding to the fun, "I'm the Decider" was also nominated for Best Rock Song. Toronto Exclusive is hosting a fun award celebration on Wednesday, October 22nd at the Smiling Buddha (961 College Street), starting at 8pm. We'll be there to join in the festivities. Nice to see the record's still getting good notices. For full details about the gig, check out the Toronto Exclusive site.

We're nearly finished our upcoming EP. Expect some pretty wicked new songs coming your way in the next month!

Daniel Pearl World Music Days

In 2002, journalist and musician Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan. In honour of his memory, Daniel Pearl World Music Days has been created to bring together harmony, music and humanity. In October, a wide array of performances around the world will be dedicated to Daniel, drawing on the power of music to create cross-cultural understanding. You can find out more about the foundation's concerts at http://www.danielpearlmusicdays.org. Whether you're an artist or no, you can join in by submitting music, art, photos, poems, stories and reporting of World Music Days events at their site, to become part of an eStage.

Vote at Home Grown Video

New York's Home Grown Video is featuring the video for "The Prisoner", where we're getting some nice airplay. You can check out their MySpace page, and vote for Luke Sneyd there for Artist of the Month to help us pick up more play!

Future Stars on Radio Crystal Blue Tonight

Dan Herman of NYC's Radio Crystal Blue is doing a feature on Future Stars, starting tonight. And we're included. Nice. Here's the details for tuning in:

(1)LIVE on LIVE365 INTERNET RADIO
www.live365.com/stations/142950.
*Click the yellow 'mic' button on the station page during the time the show
airs live. This opens the listening window. Radio Crystal Blue is a 4-5 hour
show.
*Please ignore the "this station is currently not available" statement on
this
page.
*Turn off all pop-up-blocker software
NEW: Remember you can listen to Live365 with your favorite audio player.
Live365 now features mobile streaming!
Firefox and Safari browser users surfing Live365 can now use the network's
Flash player.

(2) ARCHIVED shows are at http://cblue.lunarpages.com
*Click the .ram streams or the .mp3 downloads at the beginnings of each
playlist.
*Listen with the free (basic) RealOneplayer www. real. com
*Both shows will be uploaded just hours after its completion.
*All archived shows are being kept for 4 weeks after the live ones.

(3) PODCASTS :
Stream shows after-the-fact in my FeedPlayer at http://cblue. lunarpages. com
Click the different glyphs to hear earlier shows, get the mp3 and RSS
feeds.
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www. bigcontact. com has other ways to make the audio accessible.
*As with the archives, the shows from the last several weeks are always
available.

Tattoo Rock Parlour!

Great set last night at the Tattoo Rock Parlour. Thanks to them what came down post- their Labour Day weekend hangovers and dreaded kickstart-the-fall with work / school / name-your-poison futures looming large on the dusky horizon! The denizens of Tattoo were mightily pleased with what they beheld. Mike Celia provided a great opening act with some fine guitar work and a cool blues-folk vibe, followed by the stomp and crunch of Fourlines. We wrapped up the bill with a solid set, breaking out some new tracks including "Wheels Come Off" and "The Real Heart". Thanks to Todd Arkell at Cool Planet Entertainment for booking us, and shout-outs to my cousin Mike for doin' lights and the ever-present Marc Koecher for his wicked shots. Check out the pics!

Coming up.... Tattoo Rock Parlour!

We're playing Tattoo Rock Parlour in Toronto, Wednesday, September 3rd. Opening are Mike Celia and Fourlines. Doors at 9pm, cover's $5. The place is at 567 Queen Street West. Sign up for the show on Facebook! It's gonna be wicked - we're breaking out a few of the new tracks we've been working on in the studio, as well as your All of Us Cities faves.

Le Giggage

We played a solid show at Fat Cats in Kitchener last Friday (a few pics posted below). Quirky venue: the place is a pool hall, with the band tucked in a corner stage. Not ideal circs for putting on a performance, especially with the pool tables between us and the seats and tables! But people were into it all the same. Even those pesky stick-wielding interlopers were shimmying around the velvet in time to "Hearts and Minds"....



Looking forward to playing the Live Lounge tomorrow night in Ottawa, courtesy of Live 88.5! C'mon down and check us out, Friday, August 29th, doors at 8:30pm, cover $8. We're appearing with Marc Charron, Tara Holloway and Grace Over Diamonds. Should be a very cool show.

Andrew's Rock Blog

Nice write-up over at Andrew's Rock Blog. I was ever-so-briefly in a band called Station to Station with Drew, many moons ago. A buddy of mine (the drummer of my high-school punk band) played with them, and invited me in back in the 90s when their original guitarist left. We jammed out a few times but it never really connected. I bump into Andrew from time to time - we caught up recently at a birthday party for that drummer's one-year-old daughter. He's doin' fine working at Jack FM, and his blog is a great corner of the net for tidbits on rock classic and contemporary. Check it out!

What the hell we're up to....

Posting's been infrequent, I know. And there hasn't been much new going up. I'm glad to say that it's with good reason. The band's in the studio again with producer Marc Koecher. Yep, we've started work on new tracks at long last!

There'll be some samples of tracks coming soon. Right now we've started work on what's either a very long EP or a very short album, depending on your point of view.... One track we've broken out live a few times called "Wheels Come Off" is a rolling romp about plans gone awry. But man it's going to sound a bit different from those first live approximations! I'm pretty excited to be back in the studio, especially working with a few new collaborators this time around. Marc's signature production will be in full effect, but I think there's going to be more oomph, more rockness igniting the epic complexity. Zack's drums are pure thunder, and Scott's bringing some great melodic bass-lines to the table. I'm babbling, but you'll know what I'm talking about soon enough.

Here's a figment of studio life....

Into the Semi-Finals on OurStage

Well "Unknown" and "The Prisoner" are both in the running on OurStage, for Male Singer-Songwriter and Indie Rock respectively. Click on the banners below and vote for 'em to help further the cause...!!

OurStage.com

"Waiting" and "The Prisoner" are making an impression on fan-voting site OurStage.com. Just a few days after uploading, "Waiting" is sitting pretty at #2 in Pop, and "The Prisoner" is #4 in Indie Rock. Sweetness!! Who knows how long they'll hang on, but a little recognition is always fine. The site's pretty cool, and a great way to discover new bands. As a fan, you can just sign up and immediately start rating stuff. Winners are decided monthly. We'll see what July holds...!

Get on the list for the Sneaky Dee's show!

This Thursday, June 26th, Luke and his band of brigantines will be playing Sneaky Dee's. The night should be a blast, featuring us, A Self, Credible Witness and Gran Casino. The gig's upstairs at Sneaks, which is at 431 College Street. Presented by KickBax Entertainment, tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The more of you that come down, the better the night will be! You can buy an advance ticket via PayPal. Send a $10 payment to info@lukesneyd.com. We'll reserve a ticket for you at the door upon receipt.

Live at Club Absinthe

The Pied Piper of 500

Rehearsing. It's a bit of a grind, but it makes a huge difference, taking a decent band and honing its players into a well-oiled rock'n'roll machine. We do most of our rehearsals at 500 Keele, where John the operator is a never-ending source of bizarre entertainment. High as a kite and wailing on ear-splitting guitar while we set-up, with hidden knives to jimmy the doors he doesn't have keys for, every time we walk through the door is an adventure.

Cool things can happen in rehearsals, too. We got together on Monday, running through the set for our upcoming Hamilton gig. We'd had a layoff for a couple of weeks, but the playing was tight and the energy solid. Halfway through the set, Zack noticed some weird volume swells during "Dallas". We didn't think much of it, and plunged into "Waiting", which we haven't touched in a month or more. The tune rocked! Even better, as the last chord rang out, we had a new surprise. A couple of people were hovering behind the caged security door, digging our set. One girl piped up they'd heard us from the street, and walked into the warehouse complex to find where the tunes were coming from. They tried a few doors, accidentally setting off an alarm (hence the weird volume noises Zack had picked up on!!), before finding the right way into our space. Then they hung out in the alcove behind the barred door, just listening. Awesome. If you guys find this, we'll have another Toronto show booked soon - keep checking!

New Vid in the Works!

What're you looking at, you say? Is this Where's Waldo 3D??

Nope. What we have here is a still from the planning for the next Luke Sneyd video! I'm teaming up with Paul Thompson again, after the fab work he did on "The Prisoner". This time, instead of rockin' out to multiple me's, Zack and Scott are gonna be making an appearance. And where we'll all be apparating to is a miniature land that time forgot. The track's gonna be "Waiting". We're just working it out right now, but it should be pretty cool. Shooting will begin in the next week or so....

"The Prisoner" Live Clip

From our May 17th gig at the Lost Lounge in Mississauga, here's a clip from "The Prisoner". The sound is, well, buzzin' and fuzzin' in that wunnerful bottom-end clobbering the tiny mic on the camera way that we all love and adore. But if you don't mind swimming through a little murk, it's still a good taste of one of our best songs.

Write-up in The Record

Nice write-up in Kitchener's The Record, courtesy of Jason Schneider. Nice on the Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello references, too. That's some fine company to find one's self in! As to the quest for the perfect pop song, it's never-ending, but it's the epic that keeps drawing me back.... A lot of the songs on All of Us Cities clock in at the four-and-a-half to five minute mark, just a sign of where the songs need to go to finish their journey. As long as it stays interesting, those high-flying flights are worth it. We've started work on some new tracks, and I think they'll be carrying that epic torch even further. Can't wait to get in the studio!!

Check out Jason's article here.

Live at the Lost Lounge

"Waiting" on Radio Crystal Blue

Nice little feature on Brooklyn-based Live365 cast Radio Crystal Blue, featuring album opener "Waiting". Craziest of all, the host, Dan Herman, gets the last name right.... ;p

3Trillion.org

Holy cow....!! So. There's a really interesting site out there called 3Trillion.org. The premise is simple and devastating. You've got $3 trillion dollars to spend. A huge list of possible things to buy, from stopping world hunger ($195 billion) to a vintage 1981 DeLorean ($45,000) to a box of Pop Tarts ($3.50). And a nice digital shopping cart to throw it all in. What's the point, you say? Well, $3 trillion is what economists estimate the U.S. has spent so far on the war in Iraq. $3 trillion for countless military and civilian deaths, a country perpetually on the brink of civil war and no end in sight. (Nice job.) The site provides a great conterpoint, plainly showing what else could be done with that incomprehensible amount of money. Try it out! I've wracked up $2.5 trillion curing cancer, world hunger, funding an elaborate space exploration program and nabbing myself some nice frills like a Mac Airbook and a PS-3.... I still can't get to $3 trillion!!

"Escape Clause" Fans-Only Exclusive Download!

Hey! We've got a fan exclusive over at ReverbNation. Check out "Escape Clause", an unreleased track from the All of Us Cities sessions. It's got a cool rock vibe we hung onto to give it that B-side nugget status! Just sign up for the mailing list to be a Luke Sneyd fan, and you'll be set to play the track, download it and spread it around....!

Top 10 at SongVault.fm

Talk about the slow build...! "Starstruck" has been moving up the charts on SongVault.fm. SongVault has cool stations grouped by genre. "Starstruck" has been working it's way up the tiers (there's four or five of 'em). In January "Starstruck" hit #1 on the Pop Top Hits station. Now the song's hit the top 10 in the next tier, Pop SongVault Finals, clocking in at #8 right now. Kind of a tortoise race, but cool all the same....!

iRadio L.A. digs it!!

Let's hear it for LaLaLand!

iRadio L.A., a big internet radio station based in Los Angeles, is picking up All of Us Cities for airplay. The album's starting to get rotation on local campus radio, too. All in all, pretty nifty.

Sooo..... have you bought a copy? ;p

Request "I'm the Decider" on XMU

Here's a nice follow-up to our feature on XMU's Radar Report. This link sends a request for "I'm the Decider" to XMU. So hit it and tell 'em to play that awesome song!! Just click on the Request XM 43 - XMU Link below the track on the left. Thanks!

Catchin' up with TorontoMusicScene.ca

Had the chance to do a good interview with Sheena Lyonnais at TorontoMusicScene.ca after our gig at the Horseshoe. Where the band's at now, the recording with Marc, it's got a lot of interesting stuff. Check it!

Fuck Family Day!!

In the best possible way, of course! Nice review of our quirky Family Day show at the Horseshoe, with Downsview and Suckerfactory. Check it out on TorontoMusicScene.ca.

Pronunciation Guide

Hahaha! Well..... good to be up there on the Radar Report on XMU. And cool that they picked "I'm the Decider" to play. The band's been into the track from the beginning.

Still, people persist in pronouncing my name "snide". No fault of the host, Billy Zero. I didn't tip him off or anything. But. Just 'cause there's a "y" in there, don't let that "iiii" fly! It's Sneyd, like "sneeeed", like the golfer, Sam Snead (I don't know either - it was a long time ago apparently!). Like you bleed, cut on some sharp weed, and you've got to bandage it with a scrap of tweed. If that doesn't twirl your beads, you can always play with "snade" although the thrill fades the more it's said.

If you find you're stuck, vowels bouncing in your blunted brain, just ask yourself, what would about-to-be-traded Leafs Captain Mats Sundin do? After all, he's a Swede.

Kewl! I'm going to be featured on the XM radio station XMU, on The Radar Report. It's a show dedicated to rising unsigned artists with a strong audience in the States and Canada.

The show's going to air on Thursday, February 21st, at 10pm ET. It'll air again on Friday, February 22nd at 2pm ET and Saturday, February 23rd at 6am ET. The show airs on XMU, XM Radio Channel 43, XM Radio Online and Direct TV Channel 831. For those of you who don't have an XM account, no problem! You can register for online access here, and get a free 14-day trial. Then you'll be able to launch the XM player on your computer and check out XMU Channel 43.

Check it out to see what track the Radar Report's host, Billy Zero, picks for airplay!

Live at the Horseshoe

Thanks to the peeps who came down to our Horseshoe gig! It was pretty awesome of the provincial government to give everyone a holiday for Zack's birthday.... Aside from a wonky backing tracks situation, we had a solid show. Did a great interview with TorontoMusicScene.com, too. More on that later this week. Thanks to the guys from Downsview for the gear-swap! Enjoy the pics, courtesy of Marc Koecher!

Open Hearts Pics

So last night was Open Hearts, the benefit gig in support of Amnesty at the El Mocambo. Fun show. A good gamut of bands put on a great night for the intrepid souls who opted out of the usual Valentine's shenanigans. I got to break out the Sneyd band v. 2.0, which was solid as far as cherry-popping on stage goes! Lindsay's decided to follow her muse with Classic Albums Live, and Marc was down in NYC for a photoshoot, so it was up to les amis de Zack to save the day. Stepping up to the plate, one Nestor Chumak on guitar and Scott Hannigan on bass. Oh, and my trusty iPod nano to deliver some crucial backing bits. The boys delivered, as you can partially see below (Nestor's preferred spot was lurking behind a column that occupied most of stage right, hence he is sadly shotless. This time!).

After our set, Joel Lightman and his band put on a head-boppin' set of rollicking piano pop. Good stuff! They were followed by the Hallelujah Drummers, a Moroccan drum ensemble who did a brief but thumpin' good passel of percussive playing. (I know, but it was so fun to type....) then came Chris Bottomley and Brainfudge, a slow-groove funk band that was ultra-tight and dance-floor inspirational, and last up was headliners and event organizers Blurred Vision. A good time was had by all, for a very good cause.

Niagara Knows

Nice write-up in the Niagara News about the upcoming Open Hearts gig for Amnesty. Dig it! Just click to see the full article.

Flight the Future?

So as Super Tuesday unfolds to the south, I finally got around to watching United 93, Paul Greengrass's superb rendition of the event that's shaped so much of our modern mess. Really, the thought of the pre-Sept. 11 world is pretty remarkable at this juncture. The morass in Iraq, the sabre-rattling toward Iran, the gutting of rights and freedoms in constitutions worldwide - it all might never have happened. But it did. And this film does a remarkable job of capturing that horrifying morning as it unfolded, sans Hollywood histrionics. Without stars or even much in the way of specific characters per se, instead we are confronted with the naked chaos and confusion that reigned from airport control towers to military command centres. And of course the drama and tension as it unfolds on the doomed plane, the passengers going about their quotidian travel unaware. There's no comfort here. Just a witnessing of heinous acts and the blank solace of doomed heroism. It's a sobering instance of how vulnerable our modern life can actually be, how tenuously we rely on everyday people simply doing their jobs, especially when the world turns upside-down.

Open Hearts Show in Support of Amnesty International

Open Hearts is a Valentine's show at the El Mocambo in Toronto with all proceeds going to support Amnesty International. Should be a very cool gig! On the bill is Blurred Vision, Joel Lightman, Chris Bottomley & Brainfudge, and yours truly.

Tickets are $15 at the door / $10 with a can of food. Thursday, February 14th. Doors at 8pm.

Floor Clearer

Wow. Elvis Monday is a classic Toronto institution. The night's open-door policy leads to some pretty execrable bands hitting the stage though. Its sheer randomness is part of its charm, but sometimes finding good music takes on lottery-odds proportions.

Our end-of-night slot gave us a fine vantage point for the surreally inclined. Lindi Ortega  opened things up, and she was great! Country-inflected honey-suckle pop in a very spare performance. Good stuff. Next up was the very eclectic Allie Hughes. Interesting, jazz-inflected art-rock, kind of like if Tori Amos had studied opera and was given to moments of periodic punk Tourette's.

From there it was a war of attrition as the bands did their best to clear the room. In short order, we ran an indie-art-punk gauntlet from People of Canada to K Controllers to Gangrene and Blue. People of Canada is a one-man oddity featuring Alexander Jarvis Squire chirping tunes about garbage day and getting your prostate checked, while strumming an out-of-tune processed ukulele. Cute and quirky, especially if your desire is to see the closest thing to Tiny Tim we'll have in our lifetime. K Controllers were a raw indie duo in semi Jack and Meg mode, except for a laptop providing programmed beats.  They were okay for the four songs they played. Then came Gangrene and Blue (the other pic here). Words cannot do them justice. Picture a half-dozen college boys in the common room of their dorm, banging on bongos, hooting on a recorder, jangling teeth-jarring tuneless guitar chords as their self-appointed Jim Morrison in a Bill Cosby sweater guru mumbled incoherently into a mic. Astonishing - really, check their Myspace for a taste. Adam, the beleaguered sound tech, let the nightmare unspool for three grinding ten-minute dirges before cutting them off at the knees. But the damage was done.

We hauled our gear onstage for the bravest souls who somehow endured that ungodly barrage. We barreled through a tight set, made some new friends, and consoled ourselves that well, I think we're still trying to console ourselves.

You win your fans one at a time, they say. This time it was literal.

Rehearsal Before the Drake Gig

Nothing more exciting than hauling your ass into a bitch-frozen rehearsal room early on a Sunday afternoon to crank up the noize.... This is the band pulling the set together for a gig at the Drake the next day. We were also bringing a couple of new faces around to try out for a couple of upcoming gigs the regular band folks can't do - greets to Matt & Carla! Click on the pics to check out the joy, the bliss, the pain and the glory, all in a day's work.....

ThatRadio.com Interview on Facebook

Over on Facebook you can find an interview Lindsay and I did on ThatRadio.com. The interview's from last September, just before we played the Great Canadian Band Challenge gig at the Hard Rock. It's amusing to hear the hosts say "you guys are gonna win for sure", seeing as we didn't, but hey, it's still a pretty good interview! Check it out on my Facebook Fan Page.

There's also a really raw demo of "The Prisoner" up there, that I recorded solo in Garageband. It's rough as fuck, but if you like hearing the genesis of an idea, that's as primordial as they come!

All of Us Cities - About the album

The album was a lot of work. Like nearly two years. I recorded it with Marc Koecher producing, out of his west end basement studio. We got into a great groove, working every couple of nights, getting together to lay down the bits and pieces that would take shape as All of Us Cities.

We first met when I was making a short film with Paul Thompson, a buddy from the Cinema Studies program at U of T. The flick was called Where the Wild Things Go. It was a sombre mood piece, a twenty-minute serial killer thriller about a bar infamous for its nefarious clientele of mass murderers. Marc approached us via an ad we'd posted on the internet calling for crew. He was interested in doing the soundtrack for the film, but we were nowhere near that stage. A year later, the film complete, we reconnected. Following Paul's suggestion of a score in the vein of Bernard Hermann (Psycho, Taxi Driver), Marc put together a fantastic string soundtrack that propelled the latter half of the film with an energy that was both spooky and convulsive. We also needed some background music for the bar scenes, something jukebox appropriate. I dug into my grab-bag of dusty demos and came up with a track called "Stay Too Long". Marc and I did a rushed collaboration to lay it down, but more important we set the stage for the album that would come.

With the film wrapped up, I sent Marc a mess of demos in the fall of 2005. Among them were the early demos for "The Prisoner", "Starstruck" and "Dallas", as well as a few others that fell by the wayside. As we began recording, I laid down most of the guitar tracks and the vocals. I enlisted Chris Osti of The Action Mob and The Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir to play bass. I knew Chris from previous Toronto bands, me in Mountain Mama and him in Audiobomb. Chris was great, happy to help out and a solid guy. The bassline that he and Marc put together for "Starstruck" is a testament to great, simple melodic playing. Chris moved on to other projects as Marc and I toiled away. In the end, Marc played bass for eight of the tracks that made All of Us Cities, as well as keys, synths, a few extra guitars here and there, and some incredibly realistic drum programming. Yeah. Those drums are programmed. Zack, my drummer now, was impressed when he found that out.

Recording was long, but deeply satisfying. Trudging through bitter winter, blustery thaws or the burnished heat of summer, there was a steady, cyclic rhythm to our work. Now it's done and there's a whole new slew of work to be done, putting a band together and gigging and spreading the word and letting the synchronicity of things just happen.

But as to that record, All of Us Cities, my deep gratitude to Marc for all his work in helping to realize such a solid album. Thanks to Chris for his help, to Tim Branton for his great mastering job at Joao Carvalho, to William Mokrynski for his brilliant photography that adorns the cover, and to Will Skol for a clean, understated CD design.

Now I'm just pushing the record, like a paper-boat on the water, waiting to see if this fragile craft catches the stream.

Day In, Day Out

               Yeah I quote Bowie songs from time to time. My referential habit is pretty haphazard at best.

So my friends are always asking me, how do you spend your days anyway? (Stop squirming, KC!!) This is as good a response as any....

Sitting at my computer, making bizarre images for no reason. Which ultimately wend their way onto some site or other to help further the cause. You can see my office assistants Rocky (in red) and Arnie (in metropolitan black) are hard at it too. It's a demanding life, I tells ya.... Here we can safely say is my peaceful harbour as I throw the bricks around that might one day assemble a rockstar-ish edifice. Either that or I'm taking one hell of a long vacation!

Testing, testing.... 1.... 2.... 3....

Holy. There. That felt like a good word to start things with. I'm semi-informed when it comes to most tech stuff, picking up a smattering of this and that and here and there and throwing it together in the hopes it makes for some kind of aesthetically pleasing goulash for the senses. This will all get better over time. Undoubtedly..... ;p

Until then, uh, sorry! and hope these meanderings are worth a sliver of your time!