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I thought I should write something on here since it's been a while (although it's been in part because of the 5-day lapse in my DSL service which was far more debilitating than I would have guessed). However, there is no real news to report here. Things with the band are moving along in theory, that is to say I'm talking about it more, but really there has been no measurable progress in over four weeks. I will at least give all zero of you fans a short summary.

I started a new song two days ago, but upon my review yesterday, I decided to abandon it. I was working on an idea of ripping off a Doves drum beat and then dumping in a ripped off Philip Glass chord progression for the verse. As is the case in most of this type of song writing, the results are far worse than my original vision. I have far greater success when I just let it happen. I really should know better by now.

I noticed that Van Helsing got a good review in the Hollywood Reporter, and Variety, though negative, said "the concoction seems far more contrived than plausible, but the sense of evil overkill is entirely representative of the picture itself, which repeatedly looks ready to blow all its fuses due to sensory overload." I find it interesting that the word "plausible" made it into this review, but "ready to blow" and "sensory overload" sound good to me. I'm definitely going. The budget was around $170M, so it can't be that bad, even if it's really dumb.