The album is done.  I’m going to call in my approval on the master once I give it one more listen. I ordered the packaging and printing.  The website is updated.  There are new tracks up on Myspace.

I may or may not hold a CD release show.  This stuff is all really alot of work and I’ve been letting it completely consume me the last few years.  I’ll keep writing and recording even when it seems like no one gives a shit.  Playing live is a different story.  While I do enjoy it, it’s not the reason I make music.  When I was referring to my setlist to someone at the last show I played, I kept saying “tracks” when I really meant “songs.”

I also feel like I have alot of social issues right now.  Last year I was going through the same thing and I thought playing alot of shows would help.  Then at my next show, I played to an empty room.  Literally an empty room except for the sound guy.  If you’re not in your right mind, that kind of thing can break you down.

I want to do everything I can to promote this record because I feel like for once it’s worth promoting and it’s pretty representative of what I’m interested in musically and what I can do.  Everything else I’m going to lighten up on.  I may play shows here and there, but I’m not going to send out a ton of emails anymore just to get no response.  I’m going to build songs and recordings more slowly.  And I need to get a job that I can actually do and save up some money.  I need to do stuff for fun besides just going to Caffetto to work on my laptop.  I need to listen to music and not just make it.  And I need to do all of those things without feeling like I’m doing them because I’ve failed as an artist.

So, with that said, I have a show tonight.  So far it’s the only one on my calender.  So come down, it’s only $3.  It’s at the Terminal Bar on Hennepin Avenue just off University.