Everyone is doing it...

Yep.

I started a blog mainly because Jim started one... I'm a follower, what can I say? We have a blog for the band, but I'd rather have a place for more personal writings. Anyways, things are going to be pretty busy over the next few weeks (hopefully years) with band stuff. We're beginning to put together kits for labels and press. Luckily we have made a lot of great friends over the past few years who (whom?) are willing to help us out with contacts and business moves. To say the least, we have some pretty big and fun plans for ourselves.

Along with getting the kits out and working the rounds with contacts at labels, Pete and I are going to be starting a non-profit company called "Bring Back Recess". We haven't talked about it all that much since we're still in the beginning stages, but we're hoping it will be awesome. Justin and Pete Panciera are going to be helping us with some designs, and then we'll be using the band as the launching platform. We have a song titled Bring Back Recess, and that's mainly where this idea is coming from (mainly via Pete). We want the company to be a collective of artists and friends who all support this movement. It will basically be a t-shirt company and all of the proceeds will be going to the Boys and Girls Club (get it? bring back recess....helping... kids...).

So yeah, there is a lot in the works that I am excited about, and things with the band have been going as well as I could ask for, everyone has been really positive and helpful. Life tends to throw us a curve ball every now and then, and I'm hoping that my polar opposite of last year is soon to come.