well now... it's been a while. Life was good, for quite a while. Thanks KF for everything you do for me. Life turned to crap lately. Gonna miss you mom. I'm listening to a lot of instrumentals. I'm also listening to stuff that is angry and resentful. I'm trying to get back into playing myself, but it's slow progress. Here's some stuff.

Five Finger Death Punch - Canto 34. the title is a reference to one of the later verses of Dante's Inferno, wherein Dante and Virgil approach the 9th circle of hell and observe the traitors' fate in the icy lake of Cocytus.

Caspian is a band I found through Slacker Radio's "post-rock soundscapes" station. "Gone in Bloom and Bough" makes for good driving/working music where I can be alone with my thoughts yet steered towards positive emotions.


A Perfect Circle is putting out another album. I'm a big fan, though Maynard and I have very different outlooks regarding religion. I appreciate this piece aesthetically, and I can understand (based on his history) his resentment towards religion and many religious people even if I don't share the sentiment.