It’s halfway thorugh April and my junior year of college is coming to a close, which means summer is nipping at my heals and I am innondated with busy work and projects.  Aside from boring school work, my main priority right now is putting together a concert on behalf of the company i am now working for, radar.net (check it out).  I’m basically having a giant concert in my backyard with the aim to promote radar and get people to use it.  The thing i’m mose excited about is that fact that I will be headlining with a cast of Sedona all-star musicians.  Joining me will be Adam Wolin on drums, Paul morris on keys and guitar, Sean Neesley on bass, and Jenna Cunningham on vocals.  It’s going to be a fantastic show and will be a lot of fun.

After that, my main priority will be working on a new album this summer.  I plan on setting up a studio above my grandma’s garage where i can get some work done.  I counted last night that i have roughly 19+ songs to work from.  But as always, I’ve recently been dissatisfied with my older material in preference of my new material and thusly i’ve started to write again after months of almost none.   Oh well.   My good friend Billy Fitz, a really great drummer, is coming back to Sedona to play with me and help me arrange the songs which will be nice.  It will also allow me to put together a live band the play with this summer as well.  I can’t wait.  I feel a little overwhelmed right now and I wish i didn’t have to deal with school, but I’m confident everything will work out well. 

I had an Apple Fritter for the first time in a while this morning. And if there is one thing I’ve learned over the past couple of decades, it is that people love things that are deep fried (and that doughnuts are the single most ridiculous breakfast food ever created.) And why not? Frying something is delicious!!! And you know why? Because fat just simply tastes delicious. No other one universal process makes pretty much any food instantly taste better than deep fat frying it. It’s like… well I wanted to think of a good analogy of making something better, but I think deep frying tops them all.

So I’ve been planning a performance on the LMU campus and I knew just a standard performance wouldn’t fly. It’s just really hard to get people interested in coming out to events. I was really worried about what it was I was going to do for my performance. I needed a idea that was deep fried and glazed with sugar.

I’ve come up with an idea that rivals Krispy Kreme’s most disgustingly delicious treat.

Get excited.

MORE TO COME………..

Canyon’s are forming though Los Angeles.  I played at Genghis Cohen’s last Friday, Feb. 15th, which is a Jewish-Chineese restaurant on the west edge of Hollywood.  Canyons vocalist Jenna Cunningham flew in the day before the show from Galway, Ireland and Saxphonist Reid Watkins drove in from Flagstaff.   The three of us hadn’t rehearsed together in almost a year and unfortunately, we were faced with very few hours for practice before the show.   We decided though that our time would be better spent playing craps with the local hoodlums.

This Genghis show marked the first time Canyons played with backing tracks.  I have been producing beats for my various new songs in anticipation of the EP I plan to produce this summer and these were our backing tracks.  And they sounded GREAT!!!  Makes me yearn for bigger and better things and even more so for a band.  I tend to do great work when I start to feel this way.  The question for me right now is “what is the next step?” I honestly don’t know, but this fire I have burning in me will lead me somewhere .  I think the EP this summer will prove to be very fullfilling.

Go see “There Will Be Blood”.  It is an incredible movie.

SHAQ!!! Shaq is debuting with the Suns today vs.  the Lakers.  SO SUNS!