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So yeah. I had my friend John Carling do the artwork for the Octology, and it was the only time I willingly let anyone do album art for me. After all, I was too busy writing and recording the eight albums. Despite all of my intentions, I wasn't very good at organizing my time and sticking to a schedule. But I had to focus on getting a job first. I couldn't owe my roommates money forever without prioritizing the search for work. Even then it was very easy for pretty much anyone to disrupt my recording and waste the rest of my day. Some might argue that it's not a waste to relax with your friends, but relaxing isn't that easy when you are neglecting the promises you've made to yourself. And part of why I chose to put so much of myself into my work was to prove that I had better things to do than entertain people by watching tv with them. Not all of us just want somebody to sit with us while we wait to die?
About the tracks: for part 8, I wanted to use my darker, more goth songs. It was my intention to go more goth with super famicom, and wear turtle necks, and use drum machines. Maybe I would get a little band of little keyboard players. There would be no future blues dads to decide what tones and beats my songs needed, because I couldn't be trusted to decide that, because I didn't Really know how to write music. There would not be a band to douchify Super Famicom, and slow my progress.
My dad drove me to staples to copy the covers for the Octology. When he came in, I was copying part 8, and I immediately flipped over the cover so he wouldn't see the tits on my album cover. It was an instinctual reaction, and somewhat regrettable. As a kid, I would have gotten in trouble for something like that. In fact, my parents would have taken my guitar and my computer, and anything I might have used to make cds. I never wanted to hide my work from my parents, but they've never acknowledged my achievements in music. It's as if, to them, I've never done anything but fail to finish college.
