Hello Friends...

Monday, August 5th of 2008 and the new MySpace site is up and running without benefit of wheels, horsepower or engine. The two new featured songs " Fun House " and " Everywhere But Here " are a taste of what's to come from the forthcoming CD. In the meantime, the pot's on the stove at full boil. I'm back in the studio next week tracking more songs for the CD which should finished later this fall.

For those who are wondering what artistic statement I'm trying to make with the painting I made ( a portion of which is featured at www.markcote.com  and the entirety of which is featured here on the MySpace page )...I suppose it is my attempt to illustrate the themes that fascinate me as a songwriter and to which I am drawn to write about - those themes being the complexities of the human mind as we all know it. In this particular case, the fun house that exists in each of our heads. For those who are fortunate ( or unfortunate ) to see the whole image ( depending on your computer's resolution ), the Victorian Medical art of the human brain at the bottom of the painting is the " Fun House ". The machinery gears that I built into the collage represent the gears of our thought processes ; forever turning in restless motion. The characters and images trapped inside the gears are my way of depicting those thoughts of desire, hope and chance that are rattling around in there, along with some of the spooks we all know too well...or as the lyric in " Fun House " goes  - " So who's afraid of love ? Or denial and regret ? We got all your favorite spooks to name a few "...