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I've been way too all over the place to sit and blog out, but I can't avoid it any longer. System Kid met tonight to discuss the Summer and decided to do the same thing we do every Summer. Try to take over the world... Narf!

First, to celebrate passing 20,000 song plays, we're offering Birthday Suit as a free download on the MySpace page. We'll also make a 3-song promo CD with new music available for free. We booked 4 shows this weekend so they'll be posted soon.

If you haven't heard "Run," we added it to the MySpace player. Also czech out the new photos added to the slide banner. For the juicy bits see our personal blogs I'm sure something succulent (yuck, sorry) will sprout up there.

ridiculous love,

Jared

Sorry for the gap in posts everybody. This creative phase usually requires some hibernation and lots of moody days. We're in a scheduling frenzy of shows and recording. Some very cool opportunities have presented themselves but, like all good things, they take some time and require confirmation. More on that later. Meanwhile expect some sort of song track and/or new images soon. We're on it- noses to the grindstone.

You come across some weird birds on this journey. And then you realize how weird you've become and what a drag normalcy was.

With that said: The Stampede package is finished! Recording on the new project begins presently. Several gifted compadres to
System Kid have been working on new imagery which will begin to pop up shortly. The bees are buzzing and Spring is springing.

Tomorrow ends Project Runway. Chloe, Daniel and especially Santino- make it work. And then work it.

We made some wee breakthroughs on the two new songs we'll probably play at the Viper Room Saturday.

1. "Blood On the Wind:"

About a hungry owl with ADD and a compassionate heart.

2. "Untitled:"

A dance song about love and karate (a.k.a. abuse) which revealed its meaning Monday. When you write a song there can be lyric stowaways that sound and feel right but don't fit with what you're specifically writing about. This song, about a young lady I know, kept getting visitations from the experiences of other women in my life. Plus, ideas I couldn't trace to a person just stole in. Sunday night an embattled woman's path crossed with mine. By Monday afternoon the stowaways popped out their little heads and locked their eyes with mine. Then they slid down Ray's sassy guitar groove and bounced up on the downbeat. Solution: dance the rage away.

I got orange-juice-slapped today...

A good friend of mine received a plate of chicken-fried steak and mashed potatoes to the side of his face once. Since that first "beef-slapping" we've kept an informal tally. I've personally been pudding-, whipped cream- and decorative palm tree- slapped. FYI: furniture, body parts, non-humorous and/or dangerous things (i.e. urine) do not count as a slapping.

In System Kid news, "new" is the operative word. We meet with Jerrell to discuss portraits on Tuesday. Sunday is a tentative photo shoot with Nnenna. I'll have a new microphone pre-amp soon. Evan is finishing the booklet for the Stampede EP to get printed. We'll play at least one new song at the Viper Room and begin tracking 3 new songs by March.