Drum tracks are in the books. We recorded drums to 12 songs, as well as 2 interludes and an acoustic track. It's gonna be great. I'm so happy with the way the drums came out. Chris did a great job. We start tracking bass tomorrow morning in Queens. Since it's out first day in this new studio, we'll probably spend most of tomorrow moving our shit in and setting everything up, but we're hoping to get at least a song or 2 done tomorrow.

We wrote a last minute song a day or 2 before starting drums called "I'm Still Alive". We're so glad we got that last bit of writting out of us before it was too late because the song is amazing. I'm so glad we'll have it in time to make the album. It's funny how creativity works. You can spend 4 months working on a song, or 4 months working on writting 400 songs, but somehow you come up with something in 15 minutes when you weren't even try it and like it more then anything you spend months on. Creativity is a weird thing. I guess the only way to make a truly good piece of art is to be open to ideas all day everyday. You can't sit down and say "i'm gonna write now" or "i'm gonna paint now" or "i'll work on it when i have a minute". you never know when something brilliant is going to hit. And an evern more valuable lesson is to give every idea a chance. So many times in the writting of this record, I wrote something and recorded it and thinking about it quickly pushed it to the side but I would listen to that thing the next morning and not beleive that it came out of me and I hadn't noticed. It makes me wonder what Beethoven or Picaso thought of thier own work. Was it a hobby that everyone else saw as a masterpiece but them? Was it just a decent idea that they thought they should get a few opinions on? Did they spend months or years conceptualizing something before they set out to create it, or did it hit them suddenly? It's a weird thing, creativity.

Have you ever noticed that no one is creeped out by ladybugs? Whille we were upstate in the country working at the studio there, we were living in a farmhouse. All of our bedrooms were totally infested by ladybugs. They weren't like crawling on us or in the bed, but you layed in bed and looked up, and the ceiling would have like 50 ladybugs hanging on it. If that were pretty much any other kind of bug, there is no way anyone would sleep in that room but for some reason, no one had a problem with ladybugs hovering over them in thier sleep. I didn't even think twice about it actually. Kind of a strange phenomenon those ladybugs. I guess it's because when you're kids and what not, ladybugs are always portrayed with big smiles and big pretty eyelashes. Very non offensive for the most part. Down right friendly. I guess it's the sub-consious equivilent to having a big purple dinosaur infestation as opposed to a scary T-Rex with big teeth problem. It's interesting how the way things are portrayed to us on tv when we're kids and even know affect the way we look at them for the rest of our lives.

Back to recording....
We get back in the studio tomorrow and we'll be going straight until the day before Thanksgiving. Then we take a few days off and mix it, then that's that. We expect it to be done and off to the presses on December 6th and released in mid February. Can't wait.

PS-we're going on tour in December for a few days playing shows in smaller clubs. tickets are on sale and dates on our website