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The Indulgences:
Refer to the official band website, www.theindulgences.com, for current information.
The Wind in the Willows audio book:
I'm going to start writing a recording script for this in the next few weeks. The script will
simply break the novel down into sections so that I can read through all of Toad or Mole's dialogue
for a chapter without having to break character. After the recordings are made for each character
plus the omniscient narrator, it will all be edited back into the proper order.
I've no idea as yet what I'll do to get this released once it's recorded, but I think we'll cross
that bridge when we get to it, hmmm?
Disintegration:
I've worked out basic arrangements for cover versions of all the songs from the classic Cure
album Disintegration. I think this will be great fun to make. "Untitled" will likely be the
first song I record, as it's a simple idea and only I will play on it. Recording will begin as soon
as it's cool enough that I can have the air conditioning off.
How Not to be Eaten by an Aardvark book:
I've thought for a while now that "How Not to be Eaten by an Aardvark"
could be expanded into an interesting picture book. Someday I may even get around to working on
it.
I had originally intended to include the early Jethro Tull song "Someday the Sun Won't Shine
for You" on my album Questionable
Fidelity. The song has been part of the Hinkle Family Band set for several years (our set
used to change but solidified pretty much when we stopped performing regularly - it now consists
entirely of a select group of numbers we like to call "the songs we can remember"). I considered
doing a more electric version by myself, but after some thought decided that I would rather record
our band arrangement; this would also bring my dad into the project, and I thought he would enjoy
having his name on the record and being able to play it to people and say "That's me on guitar!"
I was right to think those things. Shortly after being asked if he would mind recording "Someday
the Sun Won't Shine" for my album, he began to talk about recording an entire album of Hinkle Family
Band material. Eventually, my mother and I agreed to participate and the three of us filled
several four-track tapes over a period of a few weeks. I decided that "Someday" would fit in better
on the band album than on QF.
Having finally sat down and worked my way through the tapes from last summer, as well as a
collection of records made about a decade ago (the last time we were working toward a Hinkle Family
Band album), I've discovered that we've only recorded one song that I'm really happy with ("The Long
Black Veil"). We'll be playing a few gigs this summer and I may be able to record a few things
during rehearsals. I'm thinking that this project is about to be backburnered.
Checked Out:
The future of my
comic strip Checked Out is uncertain; it's
questionable that the strip even has a future. There have been no new strips published
since the beginning of 2002. If and when the strip returns, it will likely have more of a
continuing storyline than it has in the past. I have worked out the basic concepts of the
story, but need to determine how I want to present them. Recently, I have been considering the
possibility of writing an illustrated Checked Out novel. I do not mean a graphic novel, but
a novel primarily composed of good, old-fashioned words, with a handful of pictures thrown in here
and there. I am still very interested in these characters, but I find it tiresome to do the number
of drawings required for a comic. I've also thought briefly about somehow turning it into a TV
series (or webcast of some kind).