Well here we are in the piss-rain-grey-snow-face-cracking cold.  The skies are parking lots with potholes and the misery of winter is a deep nauseating current. 

Unfortunately for those who are close to me, I don't deal with this time of year very well.  I only have two mechanisms for coping:  getting supremely drunk, or diving fully into creativity.  Lately, I've been favoring the latter and have been locked in my little makeshift studio (ok, I may have smuggled some red wine up there with me too), working on some new music.

The results have been exciting, frustrating, confusing, liberating...and a whole bunch of other adjectives.

This weekend, I got about 3/4 of a new song done.  It's called "I AM A NEON SONIC BOOM".  It's a bit of a return to my Wigglepussy/BCR days, a little on the dark side, soulful and sinister. 

The lyrics tell a story of a very strange but wonderful time in my life when I was struggling with sanity, constantly fighting off panic attacks, adjusting to being on a crazy-person medication, on the road every weekend with BCR.  It was all a little frightening and uncomfortable.  But there I was in strange towns, peering over the edge of my own personal abyss.  At that time, BCR was firing on all cylinders and we were owning every stage we stepped on.  So there was all this personal struggle...and all the excitement of kicking ass with the band.  In order to calm myself down before and after shows, I often walked by myself through the towns we were in, wandering around, finding paths to peaceful riverbanks and other secluded areas where I could find some kind of comfort.  These walks, and the odd mix of extreme confusion, fear for my sanity, and excitement, are burned in my mind.  I did my best to capture the feeling of that time with the lyrics for this new song. 

This makes 3 songs completed for the next album.  With Music for Humans under my belt, I'm pretty excited to step it up a notch and kick some ass.

Cheers,

Banjo