Working with Brian Potts. Having another ear and someone to bounce ideas off and give me suggestions was great. Plus, he knew what I wanted. That was cool.

Life happens, you know? It’s the shortest album I have, but it took the longest to finish.

Affliction, Midnight

I was so frustrated because I couldn’t figure out why the drums just didn’t flow with the song. Brian said he really liked the track and urged me to keep it on though. So, I got the idea to try the track without any drums at all … it wasn’t what I had initially imagined for the song, but it worked. And subsequently, Midnight is the most popular song from this CD.

This is only the only project so far that I didn’t have a CD Release Party/Show for.

Songs for this set were pulled from an album called Flowerlife, one I don’t intend to make any longer. When Virgin Poet was released, Flowerlife was the name of the Yahoo group I had created for fans, all 2 of them. You hear me mention Flowerlife in the song the Alley from the Virgin Poet.

The 2 songs that didn’t come from Flowerlife were Adonis and Midnight. Adonis was new and Midnight I wrote in 2001, shortly after 9/11, hence the last line:

“Midnight crawling, towers falling. In this black hole I am sorry, but I just want U 2 love me.”

I had initially played the piano part in “U Break My Heart Everyday”, but I’m so many miles away from being a pianist, it was boring. So, I called up my friend Tim Kaye, who is a fantastic musician, and asked him to listen to my chords and then just run with it. And boy did he! I love his piano work in that song, more than my vocals ironically.

Tim Kaye also played the guitar part in “Saint” on Deviant.

“U Break My Heart Everyday” was about a guy named Wayne. Looking back on it, what the hell was I thinking? Oh well, I got a good song out of it.

I worked much harder on recording this project than I did on promoting it, therefore it’s my least successful effort to date.