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Specialization is for Insects
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The idea for this album was conceived in 1998. While sitting in a dentist's waiting room, I was flipping through a copy of Readers Digest when I came upon an excerpt from Robert Heinlen's book The Notebooks of Lazarus Long:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." |
| Recording for the album began in earnest in June 2000 at my house in Greensboro and, with the exception of the strings on "Take A Moment" (recorded in March 2001), was finished November 2000. However, a few of the tracks had been at least partly recorded prior to this. "The Choral Song" was originally recorded in January 1997. A portion of "Sticky Situation" was recorded by Skin (a band I was in) in early 1999 as a demo for clubs. "Evade" was recorded in its entirety in January 2000. And finally, "Again" & "Dry As A Bone" were recorded by Hyperfine (a continuation of Skin) for the EP Freakish Form which was recorded from April - May 2000. | |
CD-Quality MP3 (160 kbps)