1 a.m. comes up really quick most nights, all of a sudden i look at the clock and its already after one in the morning, and i’m not even tired, its all head full of the last day, last weeks, or last years. I think the reason I like the history channel is that I like to think of the past and apply it to the present and the future. I try to not keep making the same mistake twice. Sometime I admittedly suck at that.

Tonight I am working on finishing a few projects on the wunderland war end of things. I got samples of the pop box 4 pack and it looks better then I hoped. The whole shipment will be here in a few days and up for sale right after I get them. I am waiting on the bags to print for the shadow assassin packaging, waiting for a few chocolate guns to come in that broke in transit to florida too. I love that those guns got nick named “the easter gunny”. when I read that it made me laugh out loud sitting in the airport reading it.

I cut back on coffee to try to get more sleep and all giving up did was make me dream more and get up early. So now I am going back to my usual non dreaming, sleeping late fully caffienated self. Fuck yes.

We started writing a few new songs, mostly I have a stack of potential lyrics about lighting myself on fire, relgion versus work, a few people I know, and the meaning of music to me. A caustic start to a record chris promised (or misquoted) “you’d actually like”. For me I loved most of the songs on IN WITH THE OUT CROWD but thought it was over produced and it bled any energy out of it, as I’ve said before. This record, I have a lot that’s been going on in my head lately and I’d like to communicate it with how I’ve been feeling which is restless but positive, hopeful but lost, and learning from the past but never regretting it. So when we can put that to music we’ll have our next record.

I have been out in los angeles eating mexican food, drinking crazy flavored soda from the pop stop, walking around almost every street that has a memorable name, eating at an all garlic restraunt and in talks about starting another label. Does the world need another label in an already declining music business? The answer is yes if it can be done without all the slow and bloated things that come along with releasing music in the current climate. The answer is also yes if its done for the right reason and that’s if you have a passion for music.

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