ok. plugged in and jamming. finally. it's been 2.5 years. which is the longest i've ever gone. even with the minimal output between '07 and '11, it was mostly because i was scheming up other things, building the recording space, working, studying, writing, etc - but even with that, it was never more than a week, maybe two, between sessions, i was just working at a super slow pace and throwing a lot of things away (leaving me with about an hour of absurdly saturated completed music, roughly an hour of half completed music, several hours of demos and several more hours of discarded material - which is actually roughly comparable to the years before, just through a greater level of focus and detail and perfectionism. i suppose i could have had two or three records made up of the stuff that got ignored. people were asking me. 'j, do you have some new material yet?", and it was always "it's going to be the greatest record ever, or the most ridiculous record ever". when it does get tied together, it's going to be a lot of ideas ejected all at once....i'm not going to release it like that, but it's going to be a quadruple or quintuple disc in terms of material....).

and i'm remembering how much fun this is :)

so, i'm going to have to keep myself in check, here. i could see myself overdubbing guitars for the next six weeks if i don't give myself some boundaries.