From the Nothing Personal full-length record.

(Cheers And Applause)

Blowback

By The Way

Close As I Can

I Had Considered It

Makeout

Normalized Relations

Nothing Personal

Possibly While High

Undertow

Your Best Guess

Somewhat of a Before/After of 'You Who Enter,' which will be on the next record.  I think this one is done for the most part.

You Who Enter (original draft)

You Who Enter

One of those songs where I can't tell if I like the slower or faster version more.  And of course, there's an even earlier version which has a guitar part I want to scavenge, but I'm still debating that.

A Darkness In The Glare (super early version)

One of those songs where I can't tell if I like the slower or faster version more.  And of course, there's an even earlier version which has a guitar part I want to scavenge, but I'm still debating that.

Incidentally, this was the original working title of my next record.

A Darkness In The Glare (old)

A Darkness In The Glare

First song I started working on after Nothing Personal, and I'm still not sure what to make of it.

It's really just an extended part, so it'd need a lot of work before it became something I'd want to sing over.  I'm including it here mainly because I keep forgetting about it.

This Dream I Had

The A-side to the Disconap 7" record.Probably dating from around 2000.This was my first attempt at "real" lyrics, and while I can't say it holds up too well, I'm still partial to it for purely nostalgic reasons.
And yes, the fact that it spells 'ritalin' backwards was my ham-handed attempt at being clever.


Nilatir

I'm actually excited about this one.  Like everything else, it needs a ton of work, but I think it's starting to resemble a real song.  Or at least it will if I can find the right vocal melody.  

I'm including the original loop for comparison's sake, since there's a fair amount of changes that have occurred since I wrote it.  (It hasn't been trimmed, so it's basically 3 minutes of the same thing with a short coda at the end).  

Incidentally, the original loop was featured in a short student film which I have unfortunately lost the link to.



Department of the Interior (old)

Department of the Interior

I wrote this on my laptop sitting at the kitchen table.
It took a long, long time to write. 
I can easily point to 20 things I don’t like about it.

But now that’s it’s done, and maybe just for right now, I feel a bit like that quote about Richard Nixon going “up the walls of life with his claws.” So I have that going for me.

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