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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Alright.  I haven’t dear-diaried in a while.    Here goes.

Magic

I enjoy stage magic a lot more.  I still suck at the pass, but I can do one well enough.  More importantly, I can pull one off for an audience of just one person.  But that’s not what’s important.

I really finally feel like I’m making friends through the magic club.  Last year I was able to attend the Austin Magic Auction and purchase a good deal of “bigger” magic.  No sawing women in half big, but some good foundations for stage work.  I’m edging closer to the things I loved watching as a kid.  I’m happier this way, too.

Music

This site used to be a showcase for my music ! Well, here goes!

The above was conceived, composed, and filmed in a 24 hour span.   Some of it sucks.  I’m strangely proud of the rest.

Fiction

Every time I finish a story, the market for that genre closes due to an overabundance of submissions. That’s alright. I’ll just stockpile the finished pieces and submit when the chances open up again.

Perversions of Reason

I like tarot cards. I don’t believe in any forces behind them. To me, they are 78 or so beautifully crafted pieces of pasteboard given really vague adjectives. I like to use those adjectives to pick my own brain when writer’s block strikes.

Tarot cards also seem to make some happy balance between my vices. Magic (cards). Fantasy (divination). Creativity (writing tools).

In summary

I don’t even remember the last time I tasted a drop of alcohol. The only TV I watch is boxed sets of Friday the 13th: The Series to help me fall asleep. It’s not that I don’t have any vices. Mine just happen to be very productive vices.

About that Music…

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

When I fell off the face of the planet, I was hard at work on another album:  The Riddle of Doom.  The artwork has been recolored some, and currently even appears on this very blog.

I just don’t have the time.  My little boy is now walking, talking, playing video games and Dungeons & Dragon even.  We are teaching him to read.   He also now has a baby brother.   I am now the second-most long lasting employee at my workplace.  I have really taken on a lot, which strangely is the entire theme of the unfinished album.

I did manage to squeeze out a brief video game piece for the Newgrounds Audio Portal.  The Last Robot Kingdom of Blip 01.  Please listen and enjoy it.

I am also slowly working out some small pieces that are intended to be background music for either magic acts or horror movies.  Ideally, every song will be dual-purposed to both ends.   I like some of what I’ve cooked up so far, but really want to have some longer pieces by the time it’s all finished.

I can (and have) put together fairly respectable demos given about 2 hours and some time on my analog 4-track.  Those have been heard by family and quickly forgotten about.  What goes on the site should be up to a higher standard.

One day, when I am ready again, I do very desperately want to finish the Riddle of Doom album.

There is still music.  There will always be music.