It's been raining like crazy here today. Which is fine because if it was just a little bit colder there would be a blizzard. I have been complaining constantly of the weather lately. I just want to go outside without wearing a jacket as thick as an astronaut.

I forgot to post the trailer for the film "Red Sister Red" on here so here it is! (viewer discretion is advised)



Special thanks again to Wendy Mittelstadt for the violin and the vocals at the start of it. The film is still in production and I will be working on the soundtrack in a few weeks. The music will be like this trailer but also containing Irish elements to it.

This week I am rehearsing my set and doing all the organization of material for the design of the album cover. I want to especially give thanks to >Robin for the inspiration of the cover of it. She did some amazing digital manipulation of the photo that Kris made. I still have to write out the linear notes and the credits for it. I dread doing linear notes because I thank everyone than I can think of on it but I almost always forget someone. I shouldn't worry about it because not a lot of people bother reading them and more people will be downloading it anyways.

Right now I am reading a book called White Chapel Gods by S.M. Peters. It's a steampunk-era book set in Victorian London with man fighting machine that controls the city of London. It seems like a good book. I am also reading Professor Winsnicker's Book of Proper Etiquette for Well-mannered Sycophants by Leven Thumps. Which I picked up at a bookstore not knowing anything about the series it's based on. I just liked all the scribbles in the margins of it and the drawings. Between those three books I have been reading a collection of short stories called "The Steampunk Trilogy" by Paul Di Filippo that has some rather funny parts in it. There is this one story where they replace the Queen of England during the Victorian era with a human-sized licentious salamander. Need I say more?

The HorrorPops came out with a new album last week called "Kiss Kiss Kill Kill" . I liked it better than their last (2nd) album "Bring It On!". This new album is a lot like their debut album "Hell Yeah" with the lead singer having Siouxsie Sioux's voice.

So this week (and last) I have been working on pieces to perform when I start my shows in March/April. I must confess I completely had forgotten how to play "Decaying Events". I really should write some of my music down. I always do when it's for other musicians to perform but rarely my own piano (and or vocal) pieces. I think I have about 80% of it back but portions of it I haven't repeatedly listened to it to get it exact. (it was 2 years when I recorded it)

I was composing a small sonata this evening that was so complex I had trouble playing it. Sometimes when I compose I hear the music very clearly in my head and it's running so quickly that my fingers can't keep up. So I have to usually repeat over and over till my brain and my fingers sync up.