I’ve just gotten word that my newest music making device has shipped. Hopefully I should have it a few days from now.
I’ve finished a new longform called Bower and I’m putting the finishing touches on another with a working title of Fissure.
I’m pleased to announce the unveiling of my sixth Caustic Reverie album, Themes for Guitar and Voice – Volume 2. This installment is a diverse collection ranging from ethereal drones to crushing walls of feedback.
1 
Heatstroke 6:26
2 Meditate/Medicate 8:44
3 Pull 10:44
4 Nepenthes18:44
5 The Fountain 8:29
6 Lullaby 3:51
7 Smother 5:10
8 Urbex 5:52
I had actually finished this before the end of the year but I’ve been waiting on Jamendo to finish getting it uploaded. It’s been over a week and still no album so I’ll just post this with the last.fm links for now.
seriatim: One after another; in a series
It was part of Randolph’s pre-game ritual to open a bag of gummy bears, sort them by color order in the spectrum of visible light, and eat the whole lot of them seriatim.
And now for my top tens for 08:
2008 Metal Albums
Daylight Dies – Lost to the Living
Opeth – Watershed
Enslaved – Vertebrae
Amaseffer – Exodus: Slaves For Life
Ayreon – 01011001
Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream
Ihsahn – angL
Suspyre – When Time Fades
Pyramaze – Immortal
Andromeda – The Immunity Zone
2008 Prog Albums
Demians – Building an Empire
Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
Magenta – Metamorphosis
Simon Says – Tardigrade
The Tangent – Not As Good As The Book
Ephrat – No One’s Words
Lunatic Soul – Lunatic Soul
Pineapple Thief – Tightly Unwound
Marillion – Happiness is the Road, Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder
Moongarden – Songs from the Lighthouse
King Crimson – “Three of a Perfect Pair (Live)”
Gallery – “Sarin and Airplanes”
Retrospective – “Enemy World Vision”
Greg Lake – “I Believe In Father Christmas”
Brainstorm – “Surrounding Walls”
Genesis – “The Fountain of Salmacis”
Orphaned Land – “Norra el Norra (Entering the Ark)”
Sylvan – “Questions (Live)”
Skyclad – “Fainting by Numbers”
Agua de Annique – “Trail of Grief”
I’m just putting the finishing touches on the last couple of tracks from Themes for Guitar and Voice – Volume 2. I should have the tracks finalized and uploaded sometime tomorrow or Wednesday.
In other news, I’ve just acquired a Line 6 X3 Pod the other night. It’s quite a change playing through either a Peavy practice amp or recording direct from the guitar, as I’ve never really been in a place where I could crank the volume high enough to get some of the extreme distortion and saturation from some of these models. It can record 24 bit/96k digital right to my soundcard, which is infinitely more high-tech than some of the methods I’ve been using to record for Guitar Themes. Speaking of which, I need to stop playing with the new toy and get this album finished.
I’m not sure if I’ll have it before the end of the year, but I do have a new instrument coming. It has twelve strings and will probably turn out to be bigger than my car.
quidnunc : One who is curious to know everything that passes
Two weeks after Betty-June retired from her job at the Tresstaurant, the hairdressing quidnunc found herself returning daily to her former employ so she could catch up on the latest in scandals.
thaumaturgist: a performer of miracles ; especially : magician
As she circled the mall parking lot for the third time, Sandy wished she had a thaumaturgist on speed-dial who could conjure her up a parking spot somewhere in this zip code so she could get some last minute shopping done.
Frost* – “Falling Down”
Anubis Gate – “Andromeda Unchained”
Camel – “Flight of the Snow Goose (single edit)”
Deluge Grander – “Inaugural Bash (excerpt)”
The Third Ending – “Eleven”
Control Denied – “Cut Down”
The Watch – “The Border”
Jack Foster III – “Outbreak Monkey”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “The Curse of Baba Yaga/The Hut of Baba Yaga”
Tool – “h.”
3 – “My Divided Falling”
sequacious: easily influenced or led; servile; compliant
Albert left the Walkathalon in mid-lap to try and get himself a milkshake from the burger joint across the street, not realizing that half a dozen sequacious and/or thirsty fundraisers had followed him, deserting for some dessert.