Art was the first song I recorded for Deviant. I recorded it in 4 hours as a demo and it was not done. I had intended to go back and add some more music to the track, but the song started getting such great response, I didn’t want 2 mess with a good thing, so I left it at it was, rough and undone!

Make U Scream. That was just fucking fun.

Recording my vocals in a bathroom. They had a mic by the toilet and the door didn’t shut all the way.

The drums. All I had was my Yamaha, so for every session I had to spend hours on the MPC unit in the studio finding the right sounds, the right kicks and snares and hi hats, and then put it all together from scratch. What made it hard was the ticking clock. My broke ass couldn’t afford to take my time at what I was paying so it was a lot of pressure to get it right and get it right fast. Every track I recorded there started that way, and often I’d do drum tracks for 2 – 3 songs at a time.

The carefully concealed reactions to some of my lyrics! Lyrics like this one:

“Damn, I could live inside your ass. I might be a freak and I might be crass, but I know U got a friend who’s really cute. You should call him up and tell him we could fuck him too.”

Make U Scream was easily the most popular song from the reaction I received when people heard it. It made people dance, it made them laugh, the beat was hella tight, it shocked them. So, since it was so popular, I put it on Garageband where it got quite a different reaction. The reviews were scathing! Vitriolic in some cases. Guess they don’t have quite the same sense of humor in that particular community.

I recorded Deviant in a basement studio in North Baltimore. My little cousin recorded and produced hip hop tracks there which is how I found out about it. So often, while I recorded, some of the other hip hop producers and artists would just be hanging out in the background. There was this one guy who just LOVED the song “Wild.” That was his JAM..  Everytime we played it back he really went wild.  I loved that.  Nothing better than when people love your music! 

"Saint" was one of Sirius OutQ Top 100 requested songs for 2005 even though it was not a song I ever promoted or hardly ever performed.

Wild.

... a boy named P.J.

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A stripper I fondled at a gay all male strip club in Baltimore called “The Atlantis”. It’s no longer there.

A boy named Matt. I believe he is happily gay now. Somewhere.

Deviant! That was originally the title track, but I renamed it and came up with another title track. At one point, however, this song was supposed to be the centerpiece of the set.

There were still some people that didn't know that I was gay when Deviant came out. I think this album pretty much took care of that for me!

Real gospel singers and a lot more drums, but it was the last song I recorded and I was beyond flat broke, so it never reached its full potential in my estimation. But…

Most downloaded song on I – Tunes and all other digital outlets. By a friggin’ landslide! And I never promoted it! I spent too much time promoting “Art” and “Make U Scream” when I should have put more energy into this underdog!

best selling effort so far. Also, my personal favorite so far. It was my “coming out” project in a very real way. I think I’m going to like Plastic/Box even more though. And hopefully you will too!

About $4500 when all was said and done, around the same as Virgin Poet because I was smarter, better and didn’t foolishly press 1,000 copies. I didn’t come close to making half of it back, but it’s still my most successful effort to date. I read somewhere somebody spent more than that on one song! I’m SO in the minor leagues here, but I’m very proud of my music. It just needs to find its audience. Hopefully, the more I do this the more it will all connect.

There were 3 guys who were supposed to show up for the Art Video shoot, but, like so many real life hook ups, they were no shows. So, my good friend Scott stepped in at the very last minute! He’s the guy that sucks the honey off my finger. I thought it would be weird but he was so cool about it. Thanks, Scott!

The guy who plays the photographer is a gentleman I met while doing a Shakespeare production. He IS straight. Or at least he was. I don’t know where he is now, but he was supremely nice, patient guy, a great actor and unbelievably fucking beautiful.

I shot the video for Art in my then boss’s house. When I sent him a copy, he had the people at work come into his office to watch it. I was horrified. Seriously.

Nick Prevas directed the video. A superbly talented cat, I had worked with him as an actor on a few of his independent film projects. We shot the entire video in one day on a zero budget.

I tried to get the video on LOGO, but they told me it was too explicit and raw. WTF??