Day 1- Glasgow, after a short haul from the train station the our apartment, another large one, three bedrooms this time. We do a bit of shopping and exploring. We have a hard time trying to find a place to eat due to the game but end up in a decent Italian place. Had the hardest time trying to sleep that night, all the buildings on the street, and ( Read more... )

Day 1- We arrive Edinburgh, its a short walk from the train station to the place we are staying. We are staying in a 2 bedroom apartment that is larger than my condo. Its in a building from the 1700's, it sits in a courtyard in the middle of the block so there is little noise. We grab a quick lunch and walk along the royal mile and high street, we ( Read more... )

Day 1- Fly to Iceland, we fly Iceland air which is nice but a bit cramped. The flight is seven hours, I try to sleep but some drunken cunt keeps laughing, she shuts up after a lot of people start telling her to. When we land we quickly notice how different the landscape is this close to the arctic, plus the island is one giant volcano. We get ( Read more... )

Spain day 1- after a cab ride to the city, cabs are way expensive in Barcelona, we find our place in the gothic, or gotic quarter. Its newer and really nice. We spend some walking around the area, the gothic quarter is from the middle ages, alleys leading to squares with old building, walls , churches everywhere. We make our way to to la rambla, a ( Read more... )

Day 1- I had a hard time finding the motivation to pack but somehow did it. The flight from Seattle to Philadelphia was ok, I had a book based on the Walking Dead to take up my time. From Philadelphia to Madrid, I spent the extra money for first class, the plane has "privacy pods" you can stretch fully out and other fun things. I watched Cloud ( Read more... )

Since I decide to start working on music again it has been apparent that my computer was getting way past its prime,it over 11 years old. It was getting on at the end of backandtotheleft. I have been putting off getting a new one for sometime for many reasons. The costs of getting a new studio rig is a bit expensive, I buy all of the software I use ( Read more... )

Where the Sun is Silent is what I am calling my new project. Lilacs was the first song I wrote after the long break, it was supposed to be a fockewolf track but that didn't work out. I wrote this over a year ago and put it aside. The track has three parts each building in energy. the first part is a bit slower and moody. I based the main line on a ( Read more... )

After Backandtotheleft broke up I needed to take a break from music for a bit, way too burned out. What I didn't know was how long that would be and how difficult it would to get the creative juices flowing again. Several times I would start something then get fustrated and quit. I think that most of the stuff I would write sounded too much like ( Read more... )

This song started its life out as a song called Hate Factory. After our first cd came out we got some interest from a label that wanted to put out something new. I cannot remember the lable, but they went under fairly quickly after we started to deal with them. Songs like Hate Factory, Drain, Collapse, Terror Shock Treatment, Resistance Weakens, ( Read more... )

Downtrodden is the sister song to Killing Addiction, it was written at the same time using the same gear and techniques. It appears on the third demo and the first cd. The bass is a sample I got from SMP from the EPS that everyone was way overusing. The synth is an orchestral stab that I overused as it cut through the guitar. There are two vocal ( Read more... )