Me on my Squier Strat and Peavey T-20 bass, both going through Amplitube 4 in Reaper. Drums courtesy of the Superior Drummer 3 plugin. It's a little long without words, but still puts me in a pleasant mood. Hence the name. :)

Another cat-inspired MIDI piece. RIP, sweet little Willow. :(

More MIDI, more FL Studio, more Cabbage Face.

Looped and mangled field recording of the shower in my hotel room during my work trip. It's a walk-in shower with a wide metal plate covering the drain under the shower head.

I love MIDI, I love FL Studio, and I'm fond of Cabbage Face. :)

Looped and mangled field recording of my coffee grinder, toaster, and environs. I sneezed during the recording, so of course I had to use it. :)

"Cabbage Face" interpreted as a MIDI chorale.

Another short, cat-inspired MIDI piece. This one is based on Cricket's cute little tippy-toe dance. :)

"Cabbage Face" was one of the "what words can we spell only using A through G?" chord sequences we came up with during the Spice Rack Collective recording sessions at the Mixing House in Milford, MA. I used it kind of a lot when I got back home. :)

Short MIDI piece inspired by one of our sweet cats. :)

Pawn shop guitar through a plugin. I still like the window seat.

Another studio casserole covering the last night of the trip. Everything that happened over the trip is jumbled together with the excitement of getting back home. Gotta check out of the hotel that was home for all those days, then turn in the…

The phrase "Ugly Ass Pine Trees of Home" had been stuck in my head for at least 5 years. Glad to finally get the words down. Tried numerous takes "singing" this one, but the recitation works much better than any of them. (Note that "better…

Another Sudoku puzzle track. Appropriately queasy and loopy, as the road weariness settles in.

Keyboard loops over manipulated field recording.

Drum loops, pawn shop guitar, and rain recorded from the hotel room window. Intended to add more guitar, or at least more chords, but never got around to it. Feels like longer than 3 minutes, 30 seconds...

Manipulated field recording.

Can't remember where the chord sequence came from. (Maybe Loblolly later in the album?) Programmed drums and keys, me on guitar and bass, and my old robot friends on vocals.

Just how my brain works: nine lines and nine columns in a Sudoku puzzle... Take a six-string guitar and 3/4 of a bass, and that's nine strings. The number in each box is both the fret number and the number of quarter notes to hold. Puzzle number…

Manipulated field recording.