Is how I feel voters think sometimes when I see someone's given my music a 2 or lower & they don't leave a review.

Putting together a black metal track for the metal contest, and I'm fully intending to shred my throat a little on this one. Ideally, it'll be accesible enough not to blammed immediately, but still terrifying; the latter is priority #1.

The next two weeks I've taken off work to focus on writing and recording new demos.
Well, the second week I'll be in Texas. Likely not a lot of progress. Just a lot of drinking and enjoying post-SXSW Austin.
I'm sure my liver has been holding me back creatively, anyway.

I'm absolutely elated to start summer.

Expect new music soon.

In the meantime, my cats enjoying the summer.

I'm excited to see that my songs have jumped 100+ plays over the course of a day; however, I'm surprised by how few votes there are. I like to imagine someone just looping them continually.

Please leave critiques if you have a chance, I very much appreciate all feedback, as I may have high aspirations, but digital music is still quite fresh to me.

As consolation, here's a picture of a Bobcat.

Ideally, before the end of Spring, I will be putting out a tape or 7" "Runners EP".
Just have to find someone to put it out.

Party party party.

Finally enjoying writing music again.

I've been considering switch careers, particularly toward a more graphic design direction from the drole social work I have been dragging my feet through for the past year.

I need to make up my mind, & quick.

It's unfortunate truth that I don't like to admit to normally. However, I am, deal with it.

It's strange to watch the evolution of a site, especially a site that has run as long as Newgrounds.com has. I've gone through times of visiting the site daily, voting on numerous new entries to try & raise my overall participation and protection/blam scores and as well as periods of forgetting the internet existed for months at a time (which I won't lie, are usually much better times for me). I suppose, watching Newgrounds grow can be compared to seeing a friend whom you see every few months at a time, realizing that they've changed/grown a great deal, galavant about with them for awhile, move on again, and find one another time.

I suppose life likes these changes as well as keeping a few things static. It is certainly a strange experience going from talking to my friends in 7th or 8th grade about a website that lets you kill celebrities, to now, almost having my B.S. in Psychology and still being amused by these same gags almost 8 years later while my other friends have long since moved on to trying to "mature" and are looking to marry and other such mistakes.

I would think about making this post "front page", but I already feel like many people would assume I am a jerk off who is either a) bragging about how much more seniority he has over everyone else (who, by the way, probably have way more points than I do) or b) kind of over-romanticizing Newgrounds. In the end, it'd be c) I am merely surprised that Newgrounds has rebirthed itself as a completely new site. For God's sake, I am writing a journal here! I would've never thought I'd see the day. I assume it's all pedophiles picking up tweens and sex chats from here.