College and an album!

So, it's been a very long time since I've posted. The reason for this is simple: I've moved to Ohio to study Industrial Design at the University of Cincinnati. College is great - a lot of work, and I mean A LOT: the college of Design, Architecture, Arts, and Planning (DAAP, as it is affectionately or otherwise known by those in the know) is a very competitive, rigorous program, and a lot of us here are not getting much sleep. It's very exciting being here, though, because I'm surrounded by motivated, interesting people. My floor in my dorm is almost entirely design students, so we're all on the crazy, up-all-night schedule from Sunday to Thursday and then catch up on sleep from Thursday to Friday, and start all over again. I have a large portion of a major project due in about 12 hours and it needs a lot of work, so I think I might not be getting much sleep, but I don't care because I'm loving life right now.
The other big thing that's happened in my life has been the release of my debut album under the band name Mimic the French, called Defenestration. From day 1 of recording to release took roughly a year, and some of the songs are far older than that. In fact, Relationship Arsonist was one of the first songs I ever wrote, nearly 4 years ago. I wrote every part, played guitars and bass, programmed drums and synth, and sung every line. I created the album art myself, from a photo I took in an alley in Clarksdale, Mississippi several years ago. This is well and truly the biggest project I've ever embarked upon, and I'm very proud of the result, in spite of my self-conscious horror at how bad my voice sounds. Should anyone be interested in purchasing the fruits of my labor, it is available on iTunes or as a digital or a snazzy physical copy right here.

In addition to my schoolwork, I'm also in the process of writing and recording an EP that I'm hoping to have out by mid February, entitled "These Words Are The World To Me." It's going to have a bit more of the electronic and hard rock influences that have occasionally cropped up in my previous music.

I hope to street perform more this summer when I'll be back in Cambridge, hopefully along with a job to fund the guitar project and (especially) the ever-increasing cost of my education.

There will likely be very few posts for the remainder of the school year, as my workload builds and builds, so don't expect to see anything in this space until June.

See ya!