Man, what a fricken flake I am! I just now realized that my personal site has been down for months and I had no idea. I paid to renew my domain not that long ago, too. I totally forgot I was hosting it on Earthlink, and when I switched servers, I just totally neglected to move my site. Duh! I’ve been thinking the past week or so that I really need to redesign my site because I made it in, like 1999, and haven’t updated it once. I spend all my time working on this Lovespirals site (and the Love Spirals Downwards site) so I never think about mine. Plus I’ve got the new Chillcuts site and about a dozen other sites like MySpace and Soundclick and stuff that I maintain… Hmm… I don’t even really feel like I need a personal site, per se, but there is a lot of stuff I’ve done outside of Lovespirals that might be nice to archive. It’ll take a lot of time and work though, which doesn’t sound that fun. I dunno. I just forwarded to my bio on here for now.

Man, we are totally lagging on getting our new album out. Everything is so fricken weird in the music biz right now that it leave a lot to consider. We are in the midst of one of the most revolutionary times, making everything seem really unstable. I mean, seriously, are kids even buying CDs anymore? It seems like all I see are iPods these days. Are CDs going the way of vinyl and cassette? And which digital audio format is really going to win out. iTunes doesn’t actually sell mp3s, they’re AACs. That’s what I listen to, too! I don’t think WeedFiles are going to make it… Glad I didn’t end up bothering with those. Anyway, where was I going with this? Oh, we’re not too eager to sign a contract where the record company (haha, archaic term) will require us to give them our digital rights. It’s one thing to give them the rights to print CDs within a certain time frame, but quite another to let them distribtute digital files. Still lots to think about… Meanwhile, our album sits in limbo and new songs are being written for a third.

OK, I’m going to admit that I watch American Idol. I brought it up at the show the other day, and someone in the crowd shouted out “Scott needs to go home!” But he ended up staying last week. I’m wondering if he might go home tonight, though? There seems to be a strong contingent of teenage girls into Federov, for whatever reason. I find him very annoying. The other 3 have been my favorites all along. But Bo is my boy. Gotta love that hair! And most of his song choices are really imaginative and sound great with his deep, bluesy voice. He has really blown me away a few times, and I don’t ever expect to be blown away watching that silly show. Anyway, the results show is on in half an hour and I feel kind of bad that I forgot to vote last night. I’m really bad about that whole voting part of the show.

I was going through some old recordings I did with my old band, Datura, and decided to put them online for fans to check out. It’s funny hearing them after so much time has gone by. I realize how little I really knew about music or singing when I began. What’s funny to think about is how I kept slacking off on sending a demo to Projekt back then. Veronica begged me to send Sam a CDR, thinking he’d want to release our stuff, but back then I didn’t even have a home burner, so I never got around to it. Someone from Tess was asking for a demo, too… I dunno. We were always popular when we played shows, but I guess I got so caught up in trying to make the perfect recording, doing endless song revisions and new recordings, that I never took it to the next level. It really started out as a recording project just to learn studio techniques at college, but I started getting more serious as things progressed. Eventually I suppose we just got sick of the whole gothic subculture that embraced us, and wanted to move on to other types of music. Of course, I ended up being on Projekt Records anyhow, oddly enough! If someone had told me that I’d be singing for Ryan back then, I’d never have believed it, that’s for sure. I don’t know if Projekt would have really liked the later stuff Datura did, which is some of what I put online. I don’t even want to distribute the more swirly gothic songs, like the one that was on that comp with Jarboe that C. Reider did… People said we sounded like Current 93. Anyway, for the time being at least, there’s some old stuff at www.soundclick.com/anjibee.

Ryan was talking to his old friend, Tom, about doing percussion for our live shows last year sometime. We haven’t taken the time to meet up and work together yet, though. Anyway, it turns out that he’s playing drums for the band Red Lily at the 14 Below show. Great opportunity for him to check out our live set and see if he thinks he’d fit into the sound. Oh yeah, we also heard from Rodney, who we were talking to about playing bass for us. There’s a slight chance Ryan will have him do second guitar for our show, instead. I think that would sound great. Maybe we can still find a bassist in the near future, and really round out our live performance.

We’ve begun practicing an all-new live set featuring mostly songs from our upcoming album, “Free & Easy.” Last night we ended up jamming for hours and totally skipped Gabe’s housewarming party. When he had his moving out party a few weeks ago, we were recording our cover of “Cymbaline” and missed out. Yikes! Speaking of “Cymbaline,” our live version sounded really good. We might even open with that.

We’re discussing doing a show in Santa Monica next month with The Flir and several other local bands, so stay tuned for news on that soon!

Man, I thought the rain was finally over in So Cal, but here it is, raining again. I think we got all of the Pacific Northwest’s rain for the season. Houses are sliding off of hillsides everywhere, streets are crumbling away… When will it end?

We recently finished our recording of the Pink Floyd cover song Anji had mentioned a few posts back. It came out great. It’s for a compilation, but we’re thinking about including on our soon to be released album since we haven’t finished mastering it yet. We did have the song order all set, so we’ll have to play around with it and see where “Cymbaline” fits in best with the overall flow of the songs. We did cover a song on our previous album, so why not again?

Things have been too crazy around here lately to get anything musical done! Over the past several months, the building has had work done on the electrical system, plumbing, bathroom, and outside paint, and there’s still more work to be completed. It’s really hard to find any quiet time for studio work or even just Internet deejaying! I had hoped to edit together this great new Hungry Lucy interview feature for Chillcuts last Sunday, but it was impossible. I didn’t even do a show.

We’ve been working on a Pink Floyd cover, though, which is fun. It’s a bit easier to record a song you didn’t write, since it doesn’t require as much time and concentration. I don’t know if we’ll include it on our new album, since we already have the tracklisting selected and pre-mastering done. Who knows, though?