deviantart says i've been around for 6 years. it's more like 3 years with 3 years of sporadic contact.

anyway who knows, some new stuff may be coming... but the majority of my photos still find their way to my myspace ( [link] ).

still no internet in chicago. home for the holidays and decided to type out a few of my recent short stories. i own a new camera now but A) have no way to load the pics on my computer, B) have no way to upload them to the internet, and C) have a broken power cord for my laptop. so it'll be a while before you see any more visuals.

so lately my mind has been picking odd details out of each day to transform into short fictions no longer than a page. each started with a grain of truth.

friend let me borrow her SLR, so pic quality should take a significant upturn now. being forced to shoot all manual is workin' out pretty good...

my new album
soundtrack to a slow departure presents:
hope versus a falling bomb
free 48mb download: [link]
39:44 playtime
genre: ambient/drone

1. hello (don't worry, it'll be okay) - 2:35
2. into the basement (hide while the shockwaves rip apart our scarecrow) - 6:00
3. one dim lightbulb to last the apocalypse - 3:04
4. feeling your way through the dark to an exit - 5:50
5. stepping into the light - 1:02
6. daylight, too soon - 3:28
7. after the dust settled - 11:46
8. we have crossed a border into a new life (but we killed our guides to get here) - 4:42
9. goodbye (to our old lives of luxury) - 1:18

gear:
1972 fender stratocaster (detuned and missing the first string for half the tracks)
2002 squire stratocaster (track 3 only)
boss dd7 delay pedal
line 6 bass pod
marshall amp
garageband

credits:
all tracks performed and mixed by michael except track 3, improvised by michael + lucifer
recorded may 11-13 2008 in southern chicago
artwork by michael

us:
[link]
mike:
[link]
lucifer:
[link]

remember to go check out the fullsize version of 500 - at 50mb, it's bigger than this album!



thankssssss <3
-mike

up.

thx for too many years of support, anonymous masses of deviantart
<3