Yeah so here's the thing: I'm playing gigs with three different bands in the space of a month. To wit:

• Explone is releasing a CD single of our KEXP-approved tune "St. Yesterday" which you can find at our show opening for The Devil Whale next week.

• Then it's off to LA to perform with Kirby Krackle at the inaugural Long Beach Comic Con. KK will be debuting a new tune, "Going Home" which was commissioned especially for LBCC and which I've heard but haven't learned yet.

• And then the following weekend I'm picking up bass duties for Green Monroe when they open for the Harborrat's CD release party. (Haven't learned those songs yet either!)

So as you might imagine, I've had no time for songwriting other than some melodic mutterings and strummings into my iPhone's shiny but otherwise useless-to-me "voice notes" feature. Also, let me assure you: they suck. I mean, terrible, terrible stuff with ad hoc titles like "EADGBD #1" and "zombie gun woowoowoo!" and "duh dah." No, seriously, I am looking at a song fragment here named DUH DAH. AND IT'S AWFUL.

So I'm basically taking the rest of 2009 off to play other people's music for awhile longer. I've scrubbed all my lofty plans for EP releases and covers albums. Maybe between now and next January I'll produce some new material that isn't the aural equivalent of MC Hammer pants.