Haven't slept, save for a moderately restful snooze after the gym this morning. I plan to catch up tonight.

Tyler suggested yesterday that I record a solo album at his house concurrently with the James Rabbit sessions. He offered his and Conner's services as producer and engineer respectively. I recorded from the ages of thirteen to fifteen or so under the moniker Fortitude Man about... twelve albums, maybe? It's scintillating stuff. So this project is Fortitude Man revived, but we've got to change the name, obviously. Tyler and I started writing songs for this endeavor today.

After I stopped recording, I stopped writing regularly. The albums were never meant to be listened to. I gave copies to Tyler, because he seemed genuinely interested, and I felt he had helpful input to offer. I didn't even write songs that I could play for people in public. So anyway, it should be major. Fortitude Man was an awesome puppet I made for a skit in middle school. It stuck, it seems.

Sideshow rehearsals are going pretty swimmingly. The ensemble keeps sounding better, and I'm not worried about most of the leads.

How's the Future of Style for a band name?

-Max

I'll get you up to speed.

I'm Max, I'm in let's say three bands: Los Hooligans, James Rabbit and an as-yet-untitled outfit with some good friends. Even though we are nameless, I include it because we have been playing together in varying permutations for a long time, and have recently been doing "real" gigs. Ones that require forethought, practice, and sometimes matching outfits. We play mostly covers, but we do them damn well.

I'm an accompanist for a high school choir fifteen miles north of town, and erstwhile college student. This summer, I'm vocal coaching a musical for a local youth theatre company I've been affiliated with for a long time, though up till now strictly as a performer.

I just want to write songs. The key word there is "Confidence." Not "over-Confidence," that every song you write is a gift from you to the world's ears; no, no, the confidence to brave through the process of writing a song that might not turn out exactly as you hear it in your head, and the confidence that your next song will be an improvement. I already use semicolons confidently, if inappropriately, why can't I do the same with songs?

By its nature, blogging is pretty egocentric, but I'll try to stay on task and not to be overly self-indulgent.

Thanks for stopping by.

-Max