Well this month flew by! I currently have approximately 7 songs reaching a mature shape. As soon as I hit 10-11 I am going to trigger a bullhorn “Pencil’s down!” command and begin the final mixing and preparation.

So far, you can look forward to songs that include scenes such as:

• A family wronged in tragic violence in the city escapes to map out their bitter revenge.
• A man on the run weighs the pros and cons of re-inventing himself to escape the past.
• An avid reader has a strange dream about a haunted library.
• An examination of the curious accusation that one author would fake his recovery from grief in a pseudonymous publication.
• Incredulity at the fact of death and its intolerability (Hear hear!)
• Nature, nurture, freedom, and genetics in the life of a man ashamed of his secrets.
• A husband unable to forget his last arguments with his wife before a tragic car accident
• And more…!

Sounds exciting! Sounds bright and pretty and cheerful!

For the curious:
I have been interviewed by none other than my wife on her blog. A novelty and a treat for anyone who stumbles upon this site.

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Being a full-time working newly-wed with siblings-in-law and friends who are getting married has taken away from my time recording. Additionally, I do not have ready-access to my recording space as it is a half-hour commute in the opposite direction of my work’s half-hour commute!

In spite of this, I had time to do a little recording about a week ago for a collaborative project. More to come for it, too.

As you can see from the post below, I have enabled a weekly “Tweet summary” post that collects all of my twitter posts (which range far and wide in topics). I apologize as such a collection likely doesn’t interest you, but it provides a nice archive for me and a reflection point on how I used my week.

In any case, how are things for you these days, dear reader? Have you been able to do the things you want to do? What have you done lately in service of such goals?

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Just wanted to take a moment and point out a few websites I (or someone close to me) has had a hand in. So, without further ado:

Rotating Pilgrim

http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com

With a title inspired by the writings of people such as Søren Kierkegaard and Walker Percy, I started this site to post writings, meditations, thrashings, inspirations, and anything else I find intriguing. It will generally center around literature, arts, philosophy, ethics, and religion. You can also follow Rotating Pilgrim on twitter.

Listen To Your Friends

http://www.listentoyourfriends.com

Storytelling is awesome. Unfortunately, where I live, most of the time we are going to external sources for stories. Whatever happened to telling stories to each other? Reading books to each other? Something about the spoken story told well by someone we know just rings true to me. That is why I started Listen To Your Friends. Anyone can upload an mp3 to this site and your reading will be there for all to hear! LTYF is also on twitter.

What are you waiting for? Get involved!

World Story Organization

http://www.worldstoryorganization.org

World Story Organization is dedicated to providing a storytelling and film production education for communities around the world. My brother, Justin, is the founder. He would love whatever support you can give him!

Further Up & Further In

http://www.cslewisblog.com

Maintained by C. S. Lewis scholar and father of yours truly, Bruce Edwards, this web site is focused on providing essential resources for lovers and students of C. S. Lewis, and his friends among the Inklings. Begun in 1995, as one of the very first C. S. Lewis web sites, Further Up and Further In is intended to serve both the novice and the experienced reader of Lewis.

You can also follow Bruce’s Lewis work on twitter.

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What you should know

• Working on some songs with Lee Bozeman still. (I really owe this more focus ASAP).
• Stop Don’t Stop EP still in the works. Drums, Bass, Guitars are finished. Vocals and Aux Percussion still needed, plus any extra “spices” we will add.
• I have also been tracking the new Michael Edwards LP for a couple of weeks.

New Michael Edwards LP you say?

Yes. Not news if you read this site. I am harvesting a couple of years of songs and also much new material into a good, juicy package. Hopefully it can be heard to be adding a few instruments to my repertoire as well as perhaps new kinds of songs. You’ll never find me recording 10 same-sounding-songs and boringly releasing it.

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Lately I’ve been recording the Stop Don’t Stop record. It’s been sort of slow, but it should be pretty good. The first full-length that will come of a band that I have been in (thus, I am not counting The Family Album from ’05).

Aside from that, I am now in search of a job. I am torn between the loss of independence of a full-time job, but need the financial support to invest in many things in the future. Music, trips, future life, it’s all going to take that dreaded thing called money. If none of my full-time searches pan out, then I will have to resort to something less ambitious.

While a full time job will mean less music time, I haven’t been as productive as I could have been with all my free time. I am hoping to prove that I can change that, though. I’ve been meditating lately on “self-control” and how doing whatever you want at any given moment can actually mean a loss of control, because you only end up doing whatever you have an immediate desire for, and few or no longer-term goals will be worked towards. This happens with work, but also with leisure, with eating, with interacting with others, etc.

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