woke up, went to producer Alex Gibson's home. the man. the myth. the moth. we cavorted for a time, frollicking like catholic school boys in the joviality and fraternity of Rock that is afforded only those who've created audio-babies together. then we got down to business. song list for the new album. tempos of each song. key signatures. we mapped out the landscape of the record, moving things here and there, adjusting keys, speeds, so we have the right undulation in the sonic safari. we debate a bit about whether to put songs like Sugar Bullets and Chow Down on this album. in principal, i'm not nuts about re-recording anything that's been released before (even if only on a live album). in practice, no one really heard that album. and some of my all-time favorite songs have never been properly recorded. i want to see them come to fruition. there's really no good recording -anywhere- of songs like nothing in between, chow down, or sugar bullets. so, after a careful survey of pros and cons, we decide on the following song list of candidates this new album:

Already Free
Miracle (featuring Eddie K on backing Vox)
Deity Freak
Fear of Light
White Plumb
Sugar Bullets
Sky God
Chow Down
Nothing In Between
Fear of Light
Fuck or Fight
the River
Wand
Encore, Deja Vu

a couple of these will probably end up getting cut after we've finished them, but at least then we'll know what fits and what shits.

my new assistant Leslie arrived around dinner time. we called it a night, I went back to the pad and crashed, swollen with the promise of making a long-play-recording in the name of Nameless Wonder with the ordained assembly of Mysteriates. naked, bounding through virtual wheat fields of sound.