this album started as a cosmic joke. a few guys brainstorming how amazing it would be to create an iTunes-only album that consisted of a bunch of horribly written songs and also one AMAZING song--so amazing that you just HAD to have it. but the catch would be that you could only get that one amazing song if you bought the entire album. the amazing song would be an iTunes "album only" song. frustratingly brilliant, right?

over the years, i've found that many of our "jokes" come from things we are trying to hide from, walls we are building, or pain we're keeping buried. this is where much of the great comedy comes from. i am NOT a comedian. i am an artist whose focus is music. that is why you hold an album of music in your hands. this joke about mediocrity and settling for more of less kicked off a year that contained the darkest moments of my life. the joke was on me. this album is an excerpt of my travel-journal. i have a feeling it mig...