Tome Wilson, of Tragick Arthouse, recently launched a comprehensive website dedicated to ProjektFest 2002, called News From the Frontline. Included are photos, mp3s, video and more, collected over the 2 and a half day festival.

Well, the album reviews are trickling in now. Now I have a few for Projekt to send on over to Borders, in order to convince them to grant us a listening booth for the release. Projekt had no problem in the past getting listening booths set up, but apparently now Borders are clamping down on the more obscure artists, like us. Bah! Those booths actually brought in a lot of the new listeners for Flux, and I definitely think they could do the same for Windblown Kiss.

Made a few little additions to the site this week. Now the journal entries are separated into batches of 10, so it won’t get too overwhelming. The Photos page has been updated to accommodate a new section, containing fan photos from ProjektFest 2002. I thought it would be a little nicer than pasting them into the Journal… Also added a new link in the Interviews section, and fixed a dead link by just hosting the content ourselves. Fun, fun, fun!

I’ve started hearing back from a few of the fans who attended Projekt Fest 2002. Its so nice to know that people enjoyed our show! We weren’t sure how folks would take to our jazzy new sound, but it seems like it was a success. And my kazoo was a big hit!

Looks like we might have a half dozen shows set up this year when everything is verified. Big stuff, for us! We’re thinking about adding a few more songs to the setlist, perhaps some more electronic stuff?

Got back from Philly last night. We enjoyed ProjektFest more than we anticipated. It was fun to hang with Audra and Mira at the after parties, and to see old pals like Roachie, Johnny, Lisa etc… There’s some talk of us doing a West Coast tour with Mira this Summer, which would be really cool! We especially hope to hit Portland and San Francisco, where we have friends and family. Keep posted to our news section for updates!

Cool! I see our mp3.com page has gone well over 100,000 plays this month. I always wonder who listens, if the same people keep coming back over and over, if they listen to every song or not, and that sort of thing. I tend to download the songs I like by other bands, and play them in my iTunes library. I like to make stations, too, like my Dream-Pop Losing Today-inspired stations. Hey, that reminds me, I recently updated my Live365 station, “Lovely Ladies of Electronica,” with 3 totally new hours of music. Look up “Anji Bee” at www.live365.com to hear it.

Wow! Got a few pre-release copies of the new album today and they look great. We’re both really pleased with how the artwork came out, as well as the CD itself. It feels really good to have created the whole CD ourselves from top to bottom. Its been a lot of work, but I think all the love really shines through. I can hardly wait to send everybody who helped us out a copy!

After long consideration, we decided to do the ProjektFest Bazaar show. Ryan had hoped to just fool around and see Philly, but I think it would be good for us to play twice. We’ll get the chance to meet some of the fans and be more personable than we would be the first night, too. Sam hopes we’ll do a totally unique show, but I don’t see how we can with only one album. We sure can’t do acoustic versions of our Ecstatic EP material, haha! I think we’ll play a few covers, for fun, and to spice it up a bit. Still working on our main live set, so no time to plot the acoustic set out just yet. Always working, it seems….

Trying to perfect our band bio before it goes to press. It is really hard to be objective about your own art! We ran into a friend at Gabe’s the other day who writes for the WB network and he offered to help out, but he’s been too busy this week to hook up. Hopefully we’ll still get a chance to work with him on this, because I think he could spruce it up some. Luckily we had Sean Flinn to write our ProjekFest guide text. Seems like we’re always running around trying to get things together lately, with no time to catch our breath.

Now that we’re done redesigning the official website, as well as launching the Windblown Kiss press site (not to mention designing the album cover) it looks like its time to start practicing for Projekt Fest! Ryan’s pretty much gotten his stuff together, and I’ve more or less figured out which parts of the vocal harmonies I’ll sing, but we have yet to get together with Doron to play through everything together. Hopefully we’ll have a few good days to go through the set with him, so we’ll be nice and comfy for our first live show. Wish us luck!

Tonight I really realized just how lucky we are to have awesome friends to work with! Dom and Susan have been so kind to grant us their immense visual talents for our site and album artwork, Sean and Doron were very generous to lend their tremendous musical talents to our album, Robert was a dream to work with on mastering… We also had friends lend us equipment — thanks John and Todd! Plus I can’t forget Gabe, who not only let us borrow Doron from his band, but also gave us some cool samples to use. Yeah, it is great to have good friends.

I think we’re finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with the website now. Ryan’s been working almost non-stop on all the nuts and bolts of the site. I have it pretty easy compared, since Dom did all the major design work. I’m just working on content, much of which I already created for windblownkiss.com last month. But I’m adding in new things, too, so that the two sites aren’t just mirrors of one another.

Thank goodness Gabe is having a party this Sunday, we could REALLY use a little fun break this weekend!