A Sale For The Holidays!

Hi Friends,

We've initiated a bit of a sale for the holiday season.  Two great deals are coming your way. Here we are to tell you all about it:



To sum up:

This Friday, November 27th, through Monday, November 30th, we will be offering our CDs for only $5 on CDBaby.com.  This means you can catch up on releases you've missed or maybe buy several for your friends and neighbors.  Indie music makes a lovely and unique gift!

Also, from now until December 25th at our web store, we are offering a very special Holiday Collector's Pack.  It includes the following:

For download immediately:
* The entire Somniloquy and The Republic Of Heaven albums

By mail:
* Signed CDs of both albums
* 11 x 17 Somniloquy and The Republic Of Heaven posters
* 1 Men's or Women's (your choice) Alternative Apparel T-shirt in brown or plum, lovingly and sustainably made with eco-friendly inks on organic cotton

All of this for only $35 including shipping!

We will be happy to sign anything you'd like to anyone you'd like.  Just let us know when you are checking out what you need.  Happy holidays!  Look for our new music video for "Lit From Within," debuting on December 1st!

Art Begets Art

We are back from what felt like a somewhat long trip. We went with my dad on a cruise on the Queen Mary 2 from New York up the East Coast to Nova Scotia, Canada. It was a really interesting experience. Cruising is strange. Here are a couple of pictures:

In Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine

The huge ship (don't call it a boat, people will get mad)

When in Nova Scotia, please don't hit Santa's flying reindeer.

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

St. Martins, New Brunswick

We then spent a few days in our old stomping grounds, NYC. While there, I had a bit of a mystical experience at the MoMA with a piece of art that just grabbed me by the throat. Edvard Munch's The Storm.I don't recall noticing the painting in the past. You never know when or why art is going to hit you. Even looking at this here online doesn't have the same emotional impact (reproductions rarely do).
There was something about that moment, in that space, that broke me. I was shaking. I love Munch's work. He evokes for me a sense of beauty, isolation, and terror that can be overwhelming. This woman in the night on this dark path - I understand her. I want to know what she's going to do. Where she will go, because clearly she is outside the circle of women and way out side the warmth of the house lights. Yet she carries her own light.

I'm always grateful for moments like this because I feel music in them. I feel a song, a story, or just the shape of something that I can pull up a month or even years from now in my writing. Visual art is a primary way we both get inspiration to write. It works differently for David because he gets inspired by structure/color/light and I get inspired by the story. Which is great and why we work so wonderfully together.

Right now as I type this, David is recording guitar and MIDI parts for the 2009 Holiday Single. The holiday single is always fun. I feel it's a way to be a bit care-free and do things outside the normal "Endless-y" way of writing. I hope you'll like what we're up to this year!

In other news, the music video for "Lit From Within", directed by Bob Blunden of Bath, England, is scheduled to debut on December 1st. Look for it here!