Home is a strage place

Here I am back at home. Fighting with myself not to revert to the way I was before I left. So far, I'm doing a pretty good job. But as many people know... people don't really change. They get older, wiser and in better control of themselves. But they're still them in the long run.

I've been here for 2 weeks so far. 3 to go... It's been great seeing all my old friends again. There's a lot of things I'm trying to sort out and getting myself back where I want to be is a lot of work. It is easier with friendly faces and encouragement all around me. For so long I blocked out my friends and listened to one voice that wasn't very nice.

One thing I'm very upset about is my music. I've got so much sitting on my computer almost done... and I wish I could work on it here in Tucson. Alas my computer is somewhere between Germany and NY at the moment. It's been driving me nuts.

A note on life... one does need perspective to grow and learn. You can't fix any problems if they're right in your face. It's also timing. You can't force yourself to be ready to deal with things. When the time comes though, solutions will await you.

Here's to me being a little more active on this site as well...
-Anthony

The horizon becomes clear

Well... I'm still around. The site is still up. The forums were down for a while, but I got them back up.

I finally have a new computer (woot Mac Pro) and I'm waiting on the logic update for the intel processors.

So in theory, there will be new udr music in the near future. I hope.

Sorry I've been out of touch for so long. Between the army and warcraft, my free time gets devoured quite effectively. There's a lot of friends who I've more or less lost contact with and I feel bad about that. If you're one of them. Know that I'm still around. I check my email more than anything (incl. myspace) so that's the best way to get a hold of me.

If you don't have it, there's links around here somewhere. He's the anti email harvesting bot version udr at mac dot com. Hrm... I'll bet those bots can figure that out, oh well.

Take care everyone. I'll try (again) to keep this site a little more updated. Go use the forums so they don't get deleted again. dotmac doesn't support mysql or whatever so I can't make my own phbb thingy. Not that I could even if it were available. Web designer I am not... anymore at least. All that fancy new stuff is too complicated for me these days.

Peace love and sub atomic crowd control...

Not as well as I'd hoped

Well, here we are. New(ish) site and snazzy forums and I'm still talking to myself. I guess somewhere in my long absence the world forgot about me. Not entirely surprising, but a little disappointing. I wish I had more to offer at the moment, but I don't.

I hope there's still some people out there that continue to enjoy my music. I know there used to be some freaky fans that would never leave me alone. But then again, I was working at the club they were going to at the time.

I am still working on some new material. I've been a bit back tracked and have a few gigs (for work) that are going on during the next few weeks. Woot, slider go up... slider go down. I really forget that running a sound board actually takes talent sometimes and I feel like a monkey with a button. That aside, I'm still very glad to be working in an audio department rather than digging sand out of my eyes.

Leila has been gone for a while and she's coming back soon. I've been listening to some of the collaborations we we've done and I think there's some potential for inspiration when she is here again. Here's hoping for the best.

Go check out the forums... I know they're a blank slate at the moment. But if no one posts, there will be nothing for anyone else or myself to respond to.

15 Feb 2006

It's been almost 1 year since my last update. There isn't really much to tell. There's even more songs still in progress, I've improved my mastering skills and I did a minor update to the site.

Hopefully I'll actually finish a few songs in the next few months. There are plenty that are near completion or simply missing vocal recordings.

I'm still working with the USAREUR Band and Chorus as a sound tech. It's pretty laid back work and it's something I enjoy. So it's definitely a case of two birds with one stone. It also has convinced me that I do want to pursue a career in sound engineering and or live sound. Once I get out of the army that is.

The biggest feature on the new site is an actual phpBB forum... so no more dabbling in various proprietary forum code for me anymore. It looks nice too.

Hope there's still some udr fans out there that haven't forgotten about me or assumed I was dead.