What I'm doing on my summer vacation

Okay, I've got some domestic duties. For instance I painted a room in our house, cut out a window that had been paneled over, and am growing a pretty wicked garden this year. So I'm no slacker around the house.

But one of the things I really look forward to is recording with Ben Moffat and Zack Sloan. We have a band called Cicada. I host some audio files on my school's server. Here's a link if you want to listen to "Summer Swims" one of the tracks on our newest CD. I haven't quit my day job yet, so we can only get together a few precious summer days. But we have a lot of laughs on those days.

I've also begun an online memoir (using Flash). Here are links to the first two chapters. It's the first part of the last time I made it to my parents' house where I grew up. They were moving out and it was also, coincidentally, my high school class 20-year reunion. Watch these and let me know what you think.

• Last Time Home (audio essay)
• Last Time (animation with music by Cicada)

What Lovers Want

One hobby I have is playing music with my buddies. Here's a song that Ben Moffat, Zack Sloan and I recorded not so long ago. The song attempts to address the communication issues between men and women. I used Audacity to take out some of the background noise. If you listen closely during the first few seconds, now the noise sounds like some aliens are trying to make contact....

Listen to it