Things have been rather slow around here, but are slowly picking up. We’ve got a couple of compilations starting to line up, using old cuts. Someone has been talking to us about doing a show in Hawaii, which would be awesome. Percy Howard is sending me a CDR of the song he wants me to come out and sing for him. We’ve got 4 solid mixes of new tracks now, too.

Ryan’s been playing Kelly Slater Pro Surfer quite a bit, which has inspired him to get back into drum ‘n’ bass production. There’s a couple Rollerball tracks on the game that sound like a cross between our stuff from ’99 with our recent stuff. It could be fun to go back and revisit some of our old ideas updated with our new jazz knowledge.

Just wish we weren’t so busy, so we could get into the studio again! The past two weeks have been hellish.

Happy to report that we’ve been working on music again.

The new “Love Survives” is nearly complete, and it’s actually grown quite a bit from the old version. I love the new ideas I came up with for the chorus, and Ryan’s new bridge instrumentation! It’s much funkier and light hearted this time around. Ha ha, I still remember the first time Gabe heard the demo, his response was “Pretty dark!” We’re not interested in being dark or creepy or any of that. We’d prefer to be light and happy.

So the new album seems to be shaping up pretty well. We’ve got: Hand in Hand, Love Survives, Just Trouble, Walk Away, perhaps Sandcastles — if we polish it up a bit. There’s been some other songs tossed around the past year that should work out. I’m excited.

Nothing much exciting has been going on since we got back from Mexico. I’m starting to miss performing! Our current plan is to re-record “Love Survives” in 24 bit format. I guess the song will probably come out a bit different this time, but nothing as drastic as our redo of “Hand in Hand.” We’ve got a lot of other half-formed song ideas that we’ve been working on the past year. I look forward to having the time to dedicate to diving into the studio for days and weeks on end, fleshing out and perfecting them all. It will be an exciting time. For now, though, I simply dream…

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Hasn’t been a whole lot to post about since the Mexico tour… Finally had a bit of time to slow down after a whirlwind year for the band. Lovespirals played as many live shows in one year as Love Spirals Downwards did in their whole 8 year history. Not to say that’s a lot, but it puts it in perspective. Chances are good that we’ll continue to play live much more regularly from now on, since we actually enjoyed ourselves with it. : )

Over the past month or so I transferred a number of audio interviews to digital format and put them up on mp3.com/lovespiralsdownwards. (note: now on soundclick.com/lovespiralsdownwards) Its funny to hear the old interviews with Ryan and I before I was in the band. Its even funnier to hear the older interviews with Ryan and Suzanne squabbling!

Wow, what a great week we had in Mexico. Thank you to everyone who came to see us in Leon, Morelia, and Puebla. We’ll be back! And very big thanks all the show producers and Aldo, our Manager in Mexico! This was by far the busiest of the several times I had played in Mexico before, having to travel several hours each day to get to the next city each day in time for interviews and soundchecks. We were lucky if we could get five hours of sleep each night. But the enthusiastic crowds each night energized us for some of our best performances yet.

Well, we’re back from our little Mexico tour, but we’re already making plans to go back and do some more cities. The response was amazing at every show, from both the fans and the press. We did TV, radio, newspaper, and magazine interviews every day. I can’t tell you how strange it is to be featured on the front page of the newspaper alongside Mariah Carey and Kim Basinger! Ryan says I’m a sex symbol in Mexico, and I can’t say I disagree. The boys seem to like me quite a bit more than here in America… I’ve never been kissed by so many different people in my life! But then again, people seem much more open and expressive in Mexico. Crowds are much warmer at the shows there in general, it seems. The three venues we played were all very different, with a different vibe, but all the shows went very well and I know that I gave the best performances that I ever have. I was inspired to give my all to the people. All in all, it was a crazy 4 days, but very good.

So we leave for Mexico tomorrow. We’ve had several last minute changes in venues and travel plans, so it’s been pretty crazy. Not sure if we’ll end up doing any of that promotion after all, since we’re travelling much later and arriving in Leon. Oh well! Hopefully plenty of people will show up, anyway. Our manager had asked for a video to use in commericals, but we don’t have one! It would be cool to make one sometime, though.

Hope I don’t get scared on the flight. I’ve been much better about flying since I’ve been with Ryan, but I bet if he weren’t there with me, I’d be terrified. I also hope that screening and such at LAX isn’t as huge a hassle as it was when we travelled for ProjektFest. I had to keep taking off my shoes and Ryan had to keep unpacking the guitar effects and explaining what they were. UGH. I heard it’s a bit more lax at LAX now, thankfully.