Wow...it's been a long time since I had anything worthwhile to post here, but this is big enough to make up for it!

I was just hired as the Production Manager for Steve Jackson Games! Steve Jackson has designed some amazing games, including GURPS, OGRE, Car Wars, Illuminati, and Munchkin Quest, though they are most famous for their line of Munchkin card games:

From what I understand so far, I will be responsible for workflow (getting stuff to the artists, designers, marketers, and writers that need it) and for parts of the plastics manufacturing process, including game pieces and dice, such as the cool Cthulhu Dice below:

I can't even explain how lucky I am to have been accepted by the fine folks at SJG, and I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to my career path. I'm terrified and excited at how simultaneously difficult and awesome this job will be, but it's something I never dreamed I'd be able to do — and I can't wait to start tomorrow morning!

Hooray, insomnia!

I've now remastered all the songs on the right --- some have more substantial changes than others --- and they're all at a much higher bit rate than the previous samples were, so they should all sound better.  Maybe I can stop obsessing and get some sleep now.

Maybe...

I pared the list of songs on the right down to just the ones I'm considering for an iTunes album release...assuming I can get off my butt and get a licensing deal with CDBaby.  They've also been reshuffled into the tentative track order, but that may change at some point.

I've been trying to tweak the music so that the "album" sounds sonically coherent, despite the variety of songs --- I want it to sound like the same band recorded all of the songs, rather than a mixtape of random recordings.  I want them to sound like home recordings, but not to the point that it seems sloppy or lazy.  It's a lot harder than I expected, given that my home studio setup changes so frequently, but I hope these all work together well.

Any feedback (positive AND negative) is very much welcome!

New song!  Yay!  Check out Chimaera in the sidebar.

This one is the product of only getting 90 minutes' worth of sleep in the past 48 hours.

It's a little evil-sounding, and the drum part kicked my butt...but I think it turned out pretty dang cool, if I'm allowed to toot my own horn a bit.


Now ---- BED.


****Edit: reworked the song and changed the name.

Yay, insomnia! It's 4:45 on Monday morning, and sleep seems like a futile gesture at this point.

As such, I have been writing and recording music in these here wee hours, and there is a new song posted in the column on the right ("Master of None") --- hope you like it!


Now I think I want coffee. Or sleep. But probably coffee.