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I wish everyone a happy Halloween! Be safe and drive sober! There’s no need on ruining probably the biggest night of the year for the industrial scene by getting stopped at a ride check and losing your license. Be smart….and safe.

Other quick news…. I moved back into Ottawa. I’ve brought up all my computer and music stuff and have it sitting in the spare room to be  setup. Moving has really hurt me this time. My hands are so swollen you can’t see my 2 small knuckles. Me knees and feet are pretty bad too. So, as you can guess, it’ll be a little bit until I’ll be able to work on music again. Not only do I have to recover from bring up 1 load of things…. I have to set them all back up! I’m not going to push myself and bring my pain levels any higher then they are already. Anymore and it’ll become very hard to keep in check.  That’s the good and bad news.

What a slump I’ve been in. I’m just getting back to “normal” pain levels after the spring move and fall and I’d have to say that it’s depressing to realize that it’s not all that much better then 3 months ago. My hands swell just as bad and my feet are pushing at least 2 times a week now. It’s just a big rut that I’ve been stuck in after trying to push myself to work on music this year and try and actually finish off my disc. I’ve been figuring out a lot of personal stuff lately, new medication, added diagnosis of psoriasis on top of rhuematoid arthritis and the need to do a drastic move to medication that costs a small fortune to have has actually pushed me to make some choices that I’ve been dancing around the edges of for a few months already. It’s time to take a step forward in the direction I actually want to go, rather then being pushed by external forces.
This week, somehow with how I’ve been feeling, I managed to finish off the Veela remix that I’ve been wanting to since I submitted it. I just have to check the last render on 1 more set of speakers and I think this will be the finished version. If not, it won’t take more then a handful of renders with minor volume shifts to get it right. Aside from that, I have……. 6 tracks that I’ve been picking away at for around 2 months, with one of them being something started this week. I have to “replace” 2 older tracks with something new to have a decent disc length and I hope it will be soon. After that, I might go back and remix some of the older tracks I’m going to be “keeping”. Jairus did a great job but there are some subtle things that I want to add to them but that won’t take long at all. I just need a week of feeling semi decent to get all of those done.
I’m not sure how long this is all going to take to finish up. I’ve already past my “done date” a few times. Hell, I wanted to put something out to labels 3 years ago. I’m glad I didn’t. This year I hope I’ll have everything ready. It’s hard to set a time and have health issues come up and fuck up all my working time or leave me too depressed to do anything.

Anyway, I should have the remix updated tonight and I might put up a clip of something I’m working on as a early Halloween treat. I’m really hoping I can put something new online for it as well. Leslie is putting on a Dark Carnival and I’d like to actually do some promotion.

On to something completely different. I’m going to be starting an industrial radio show! Saturday nights from 11pm to 1am I’ll be playing in the valley. If I’m not live, I’ll pre-record a show for them to play that week. It will depend on how I feel if I’ll make it out or not. I’ve worked out the details regarding this arrangement and it’s alright. All I have to do is hand in my paper work and pay my membership fee and I’ll be back on the air. I’ll post a link to online streaming of the show for anyone interested.

Happy thanksgiving my Canadian friends! Have a good weekend doing whatever you are doing. At the very least, enjoy the holiday pay! If you’re out and about, please drive safe and sober!

cheers