Make A Plan To Love Me.

Just in case if there wasn't already enough proof that I am a nerd, 

here's me dressed as a Wizard dressing as a Muggle for the Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows book release last year.

ANYWAYS....

Last night I was laying in bed (and by bed I mean couch, and technically you can't lay IN a couch, but you can lay on one)...

and anyways....

I realized I've already been in California for two weeks.

It's seemed liked shorter, but I guess sometimes time flies.

I'm going to begin actually tracking songs for my new album sometime this week.

I've finally become quite comfortable with all my new recording equipment and after about a week of just messing around with knobs and buttons to see what all this stuff can do it's time to actually get down to business.

I've got a ton of songs demoed (somewhere around 70) and am choosing from those.

I think that anywhere from 11 to 14 sounds like a good number to actually put on the album.

I still have no idea what I want the title to be for that album.

Also,

I wanted to clear something up,

simply because I could see how it could get confusing...

like I've mentioned before, I'm releasing TWO albums this year.

The first is already completely finished, has a title, artwork, everything...

and it's somewhat of a re-release of songs as well as a good bit of new songs,

and it will be coming out this Spring.

Now, the other album is the one I'm working on now, it is a full length album and will feature all new songs.

So just to make sure you know, when I say I'm working on songs for the new album, I'm talking about this one...

and it will be coming out this Summer.

Also-also...

Touring is finally in the works.

I've said I'd be touring non-stop and meant it...

that will all begin just before or just at the beginning of Spring.

Sometime around early March.

Also, also, also...

I mentioned how I'd have a video for you this week, well, I don't...

BUT I do have a song clip for you...

It's of a track that I have yet to give a name to yet that's a good potential song for the new album,

and you can hear/download the clip at www.backseatgoodbye.com/democlip.html

And sorry about no video, I keep forgetting to get a firewire cable for my camcorder, but I will have one soon and then videos will follow :)

On another note....

one that doesn't really deal with my music....

last night I finally had a "Eureka!!!!" bright idea moment at around midnight.

I've been wanting to write a book for the longest time,

and I've started on a couple, but have only written through the first few chapters and drew a blank.

Out of nowhere I decided exactly what I wanted to do, because I love writing lyrics, but sometimes they just don't work out with music so I suppose they just technically become words with no song, a.k.a. poems.

And I've got tons lying around (and by lying around I mean on my hard drive, because it's so much easier to type words than actually write them down.)

So anyways, what I'm getting at, is....

I've decided that sometime in the near future I will be self-publishing and releasing a book of poems.

I never really realized how powerful just reading words without music could be until I stumbled upon a man named Saul Williams while reading one of Amanda Palmer's blogs.

And by "in the near future" I mean, I'll hopefully be releasing sometime early this Spring...

I've never self-published a book, so I've still got some figuring out to do on that, and I've still got to get a lot in order to bring it all together,...

but just know that I'm quite excited about it, and if you like my lyrics or have every read any of my blogs with some of my poetry in it I think you'll really dig this.

I've got a title and cover for it already, but I'm going to keep those a secret for a little while longer.

But yeah, look out for more on that soon :)

That's all I've got for this week,

be sure to check out the song clip and let me know what you think of it :)

LOVE,

Chad