For the Cure 2008 - Released!

From now until mid September, you can pick up an online copy of "For the Cure 2008".

The album contains several new tracks and a few previously released ones. You can hear an additional clip of "Grace", and future clips when I have time to upload them to MySpace.

This year I will be participating in the Seattle Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk, benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure. I must raise at least $2,200 USD in order to participate in the walk. This money goes towards funding for research in the battle against breast cancer.

In my efforts to meet my fund raising goal of $2,200 I have released this benefit album. All profits I make from this album will go twards my fundraising goal for the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk. You can see my progress, or make additional donations by viewing my personal 3-Day Walk page.

I will be making regular updates to my blog, and will start a list/stats widget that will track the progress of benefit album sales. You may also see top contributors on my 3-Day Walk page.

This Weekend

I am determined to get this effing thing out the door considering it will only be available until September. There are two tracks that need some fine tuning and then I can get the SNOCAP store set up properly to make the music available for purchase... I hope it all is able to go up this weekend.
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I've been in Sun Directory Server 6.0 training this week. I have learned a LOT about the product which will help me in my duties at work. I'm glad today is the last day of training though because my mind is a bit mushy trying to fit all of the information into my head and then go back to dealing with the every day drudgery of work.

That's all I have for an update right now. I will make a more formidable post over the weekend.

SNOCAP, argh!

SNOCAP is pissing me off. Apparently there is a problem with they way they handle their customer and artist accounts. I'm still unable to post my music since I was required to re-sign up my email address as a customer to purchase music. Argh! They do NOT respond to their technical help questions. I sure hope being purchased by iMeem does something for their customer service (it can't get any worse, right?).

I may have to suck it up and put this one on Tunecore.. though that will cost me a bit of coin I wasn't wanting to put forth since it is a limited release album. I may have to sign up under a different email address.. mmm.. yes.. maybe that will work.

Jeff and I made a very interesting song this past weekend that really got us thinking about the type of music we would like to create. Expect some good energetic tunes to be coming your way, infused with plenty of groove to match the crunchy guitar and wall-of-sound ideals that we want to capture.

I have yet to start some of the final tracks for "Well of Souls". Once I get this SNOCAP crap figured out and get "City Shadows vol.1" and "For the Cure 2008" online, I will be able to dedicate the time to the last few songs on "Well of Souls".
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I gave in to the dark side and purchased an Xbox 360 last week. The only game I purchased with it was GTA IV. I have since been re-addicted to the glory of high quality console gaming, and I LOVE it! I have been missing out on an incredible experience with Xbox LIVE and the nifty multi-media features of the Xbox 360.

I'm planning on seeing if there is any software out there to let my Xbox talk to a non-Windows Media Center PC. The opportunity to stream movies and music like I used to with my old modded Xbox is entirely too appealing-- especially with the slick interface that reminds me a lot of the Xbox Media Center.

Now I'm looking forward to picking up a slew of games for the Xbox 360 this year, as well as playing a few of the hits I missed as my gracious friends Matt and Jeff are going to let me play through some of their games (Bioshock, w00t!).
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Amy comes back tonight from being in Massachusetts for the weekend. She went to see her Grandparents and her Mom & Dad. I don't like it when either of us travel apart, but I do look forward to the stories she undoubtedly has to tell (we have amazing luck when traveling to have some interesting things to tell about when it is all said and done).

I hope you all are enjoying the spring season. The weather up here has been sketchy at best and it has been hard to get out and enjoy nature. I'm itching to get the hiking season under way, but we don't own a lot of the bad weather gear. Hopefully soon we can do some of the lowland trails out there.

Pz everybody. Oh, and you can see my gamer tag has been added as a gadget on the right. See you online!

Almost There

I did a first pass on the benefit album. After a listen this morning, I have a few adjustments to make and it should be ready for upload and sale via my SNOCAP store.

City Shadows vol.1 is almost ready to be finalized and ready for sale. It will be distributed to iTunes and Rhapsody online.

Well of Souls is the name of the new album that will be out early summer. It will contain the tracks that were previously available for listening on iLike/Garageband and a few new ones. Album artwork by Nicholas Cristo is in the works. Samples of the album art can be seen in the fan club!