I gotta simmer down, but that is the big big news. I've had this album done since last august actually and have just been uncharacteristically sitting on it. I was actually sitting on it in the hopes that i'd be able to tour on the material this summer but that sort of remains to be seen. I doubt it will happen but maybe i'll try and put together a little weekender or something. I also had plans to release, you know, any kind of merch at all, alongside the album release but leading up to it I have developed some sort of health condition where my balls hurt horribly when I walk a lot, and my dayjob is like entirely walking, so I was calling into work a lot in jan and feb and ended up having like no fucking money. I'm on actual medical leave right now (thank fuck) so I'm at least not stressing about having to call in every day, but it is still fucking me financially a bit. So no merch for this album for a little bit i guess lmao. I also might have had yk some sort of savings if I hadn't went apeshit and bought an expensive computer on amazon payment plan, but now I can edit video like a *motherfucker*, as I just recently demonstrated in both the AMV for my collab w/ the homie Elias And the error , KEEP THEM COMING the new sick nasty music video for "My Name Is Void". Can you believe it? a real VoidDweller music video? the last music video I put out that i was this stoked about was like 7 years ago and that was one static shot. I've done other video shit since then but nothing that i've ever been really stoked about, and now with the new rig I can actually make shit. I've been kind of fucking with a lot of video stuff actually, so much so that I created a second youtube channel to hold it so I don't clog up my main one. It's a lot of filming local gigs with this mini dvdr camcorder I have and a lot of skate. edits. The skate dot edits are where u can really see me going nuts, but the last one I made I can't fucking put anywhere because of some copyright bullshit with Tommy Wright III's Meet Yo Maker, which makes no fucking sense. So since I my own site now I can do cool shit like say fuck youtube and host the shit here myself.
Anyway, the injury also means live shows are basically a no go until I get this situation sorted, but it should be sorted within like idk a month or two. This is also the reason the last couple of sets I've done have been noise sets off of my phone which are not nearly as satisfying artistically as running around and screaming my little songs but I felt dropping off the shows and isolating in my house like I have been would be even worse for me mentally. Feb, march, and even January were pretty fucking miserable on me mentally, mostly because I think of this physical injury stuff, but I also did just hit my one year anniversary on HRT a little bit ago, and that has been really really great, but i'm also still working my way through a lot of brainworms about it. The inevitable transgender record I fortold in my birthday track last year is currently in slow progress. I'm working on fully setting up a patreon as well as continuing to write stuff for NDE-RFN and getting that site set up. I just recently posted my first piece about Bomb20's record Field Manual which is a huge influence to how I make my own shit which you should definitely check out, along w/ my friend Harrion's review of some vomir and the rita records that I'm happy to have on the site. Setting up some sort of email subscriber newsletter for that is also something I'm considering doing, but for now i'm just posting about it in the VoidDweller discord server whenever something on there gets updated. I kind of vibe with the old internet ways of just checking on sites occasionally rather than everything competing for your attention, but i'm not sure how long that will continue.
In conclusion, New record out, new computer so more video shit and maybe streams eventually, patreon is up but not quite setup, nde-rfn is on going, i'm on medical leave cause my balls hurt, it's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.