I was about to make a new post detailing my "plans" for the upcoming months, where I stand with the new album, and where I want to be in a few months. Then I suddenly realized, that I never succeed when I plan ahead. So instead, I'll talk about what I have accomplished, which is not much.

1. I'm nearly back to step 1, and I'm starting to take a more analytical approach, instead of just opening up Live and shooting off random snippets that I'll probably never use.

2. I have written out short outlines of what I want certain sounds to sound or feel like on the upcoming record. Setting these foundations I believe will allow me to better grow and expand my ideas, it gives me something to work towards. I can say, "Hey myself, I think I'm going to work on Song A today", and I'll say "Okay me." And then they'll come to take me away HAHA! Annnyway, some of the outlines are below:

a. A mellow piano based track, very minimalistic.
b. A heavier rock based song
c. A funky, very electronic song with guitar. Reminiscent of some IAMX stuff.
d. A very drum and bass driven song.
e. A new intro, very epic(of course), will attempt to mesh it right into track 2 on the cd for a nice effect.
f. Reworking of Frozen.
g. Reworking of Enemy (rerecording the guitar)
h. Reworking of Violet (not sure any of you have ever heard this one, very hip-hop-ish, very fucking cool. It even gets thumbs up from my metal friends.)

ta ta for now