It’s been gnaw­ing at my brain for weeks: “I need to update my blog. I need to update my blog. [repeat]” So here I am.

I am actu­ally mov­ing next week­end! I’ve been orga­niz­ing and pack­ing my belong­ings these past cou­ple of weeks in prepa­ra­tion. It’s funny how quickly I’ve become a min­i­mal­ist again! “Do I want to move this? No. Do I want to take this with me? No.” I fan­ta­size about becom­ing a sort of dig­i­tal nomad, trav­el­ing around the coun­try with a lap­top, a back­pack and a suit­case… just the essen­tials. I’d rent people’s sub­lets and work odd jobs and make art and write in my journal.

Back in Decem­ber, I quit caf­feine, a wagon which I fell off of a few weeks ago with an inad­ver­tently caf­feinated venti decaf Amer­i­cano. So I’ve been chug­ging cof­fee left and right and the effects on my poor, appar­ently del­i­cate brain have been astound­ing. My metab­o­lism is so high that the ben­e­fits of caff only last a short while, before I find myself in with­drawl. And since I’m in with­drawal most of the time, I’ve become cranky, unfo­cused and an over­all Deb­bie Downer. So before I alien­ate every­one around me, I’m quit­ting. Had my last cof­fee yes­ter­day after­noon. I don’t feel great, but don’t feel ter­ri­ble either. No headaches this time, but have hit some mood bumps which I can only hope are the last gasps of caff work­ing their way out of my system.

My big free­lance project lately has been design­ing the album art & mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als for the Minneapolis-based band Murzik. This album comes out in May and it was really a fun project to work on: