A big "thank you" to everyone who has sent birthday wishes. Unfortunately, it's not my birthday until July 4.

This is apparently what happens when one converts a normal profile into a music profile (when that was an option). A lot of data is now stuck and I can't change it. So I am officially 103 years old and born on January 1. Don't I look awesome for my age?

On the plus side, it's an excellent example of how poorly coded MySpace really is, and how they never take anything into consideration before doing it or paving over it. This is how I used to write code when I was a teenager. It is not how a major corporation with millions of users should handle anything.

So I will point and laugh. Laugh at MySpace, laugh!

What?

(I half expect this blog to disappear as I try to post it, so I'm copying it to my clipboard..)

I was making my way down my darkened hallway and passed by the front door. I noticed that both porch lights were off, so I flicked the switch a couple of times. Nothing. I went to switch the hall light on to see what was going on, but it stayed dark as well. Looking out the small window in the door, I could see three silhouettes setting up to play roller hockey in the tennis courts across the way, and a light was on in the the corner as they fanned out beneath it. But that light was on. I figured there hadn't been a blackout. Either way, it was very odd for anyone to be out there in the middle of the night but I was too tired to worry about it right now.

So I continued on to my bedroom. When I got there, those lights didn't work either. I flicked the switch a few times, getting angry at this point, because I could hear my television so I knew power was on. I grabbed around for the remote to see if I could change the channel to something with a brighter image to get some light into the room and find my flashlight. But every channel was dark. Not off, but it was like the brightness was down to zero and you could just make out black shapes moving around. That's when I noticed that the three people in the TV show had stopped talking to each other and were looking at me. Then I woke up.

I have strange dreams when I have a fever. One that has stuck with me since I was a teenager: I was lying in bed, along the wall of my bedroom. My face was numb from the warmth of my fever, my sinuses causing a drowsy pressure in my head. On the far side of the room, two FBI agents suddenly appeared in the door and wanted to get to me. But a large potato was rotating slowly in the center of the room. It grew larger and larger, eventually filling the room to capacity. As the comfortable weight of the now-giant potato crushed down onto my bed, I woke up.

Who needs drugs? Anyway, I'm feeling much better today. Thanks for all the well wishes!

01. in my nighttime land
02. don'tcha know
03. boys will be boys
04. u love me good
05. want it want it
06. connected
07. sweetest days
08. can u wait
09. love songs
10. hope
11. mate to my soul
12. sweet nothings
13. up in my room
14. come to me

bonus tracks
15. gonna give
16. wishlist
17. sharyn uncovered 2

MySpace has a 10 MB limit on MP3 files, so I had to crunch the bitrate to fit the album preview on my player here.

Update: I pared down this preview to 9 songs and 10 minutes total. So the entire thing now fits into the MySpace 10 MB size limit. Visit the Planet Hype Jukebox to download a full 19 minute version.

www.phype.com/box/

Oh, and the album is coming soon! :)