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As threatened promised, my Bandcamp page is now live. Preview and buy music here.

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Coming soon - a new look, and maybe some new features like videos and downloads.

Also (hopefully) in 2009, a new record.

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I’ve been toying with a wiki for a client of mine.

If you’re thinking “What the hell is a wiki?” you’re not alone — they’ve been around for ages but most people have never heard of them. Or at least they think they’ve never heard of them…

Basically a wiki is a combination of a web page and a Word document. It’s a collection of content online that readers can edit through their web browsers.

Ever read Wikipedia? The biggest, most famous wiki around.

So like I said, clients of mine wanted one built so they could collaborate on some documents they’re writing as part of a provincial task force.

And that got me thinking… What if I opened my lyrics up to input from you? I’ve pretty much been pounding my head on the wall for months now as far as pushing these songs forward is concerned… What would happen if you got all up in them and started monkeying around too?

Take a look at my new lyrics lab and let me know what you think. And in case I didn’t make the point strongly enough on the lab’s home page, DON’T BE AFRAID TO EDIT!

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This being the first Friday the 13th of 2008, it’s Blame Someone Else Day. I am soooo not making this up, but if I were, it would be your fault for believing it.

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Well friends, after what feels now like a long, long, long couple of years, I’ve started writing again. I’ve fallen so out of the habit that it’s hard to write even this post; things come harder now. It’s a struggle, when it wasn’t before.

But it is a habit, writing, and so I’m going to have to start forcing myself to do it until the words flow naturally again.

Never thought I’d be talking this way about my silly little songs, but there it is. Wish me luck on the way back from Nowheresville.

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Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the future of pop music in 2008.

Tokio Hotel - Monsoon

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Apparently it’s the most depressing day of the year. At least according to this English story it is…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6847012/

“[The researcher] found that, while days technically get longer after Dec. 21, cyclonic weather systems take hold in January, bringing low, dark clouds… Meanwhile, the majority of people break their healthy resolutions six to seven days into the new year, and even the hangers-on have fallen off the wagon, torn off the nicotine patches and eaten the fridge empty by the third week. Any residual dregs of holiday cheer and family fun have kicked the bucket by Jan. 24.”

Well there it is. In honor of the year’s most depressing day, some more depressing lyrics — coming right up!

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I can’t say I’ve seen Heath Ledger in more than Monster’s Ball and Brokeback Mountain, but I enjoyed his work in both. And I was certainly looking forward to seeing him as the Joker in the upcoming Dark Knight.

If it was a drug overdose as is being reported,  it makes his death even sadder for me, because it feels like even more of a waste.

I realize it’s just a maudlin cliche, but there’s absolutely no reason for people like Ledger or Bully’s Brad Renfro to be dying.

And no, it’s not like we’ve lost two of our generation’s great actors here. But who’s to say what they could have done?

In my own small way, I’ll miss them both. Not so much because they’re dead, but because what they promised is gone.

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Today is Penguin Awareness Day. I am not making this up.

Please take some extra time this morning to be aware of the humble penguin. Because, seriously… What the hell else are you doing today?

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I’ve been having some trouble with the blog all weekend, kids, so bear with me while I sort things out.

It was those wacky tags. Seems one of them was getting too big for its britches and messing up the design of the whole page.

Ahhhh, web sites. Can’t live with ’em… 

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