9/2/24 I am about 10 days out from tour now. little anxious since I still have a few things I need to sort out. Pushing myself really hard but I already can see myself improving skill wise. Most notably I have a few mixes to turn in and I feel like how I felt when I mixed Piao's tissues EP all the way back in 2022. My standards for my work are alwasys increasing and sometimes keeping up with those new limits can be really taxing.
Body did what it alwasys does when im doing too much and made me take a break by getting sick. This time was entirly my own doing consuming about 10 cups of coffee one day trying to finish up some work. Compleatly annialated my gut microbiome. I started swimming! So far it has been the most fruitful in terms of recovery for my back injury. I want to make sure it's healthy enough to stand up to the long drives we have coming up on tour. Anyway, tour prep is almost done and I'm in a good place. Just one more sprint and I should be good. See you all on tour! I'll be running front of house insead of playing guitar this time so come say hi!
8/11/25 It's almost been a full year since my last entry. Update, the tour I was stressing about went so incredibly well. It was my first tour with such a pro crew and there was absolutly a learning curve for me to keep up. I didn't even know what matrixes were so the first show I just gave the house FOH a Left and a Right. It's good that I worked on my mix as much as I did because we only had 5 min to soundcheck and go it done. Since then Piao and I did another US tour, a few less dates but still some insane drives. It'll be nice to have a bus one day instead of the pickup truck though I feel like I'll miss the pickup truck rest stop sleeps somehow. I'm writing this in canada about to do an acoustic set with Aries. I think I'm just really happy with how things are going. Still lots to grind out but I can still handle it and I'm more and more confidend in my ablility to get whatever I need to get done taken care of. I bought some ACNE jeans in NYC after the Mercury lounge show! It was a crazy splurge but they fit so well and I've been working hard so I called it a little present to myself. All my pants have been destroyed from touring so goal is to keep these nice for as long as I can. I'm happy, I'm getting better every day, I'm pushing harder than I ever have and if I had to leave this world tomorrow I would be happy with the life I've lived. I'll make the next update sooner than a year out because there's a lot I missed. China tour with Stephanie and Keita next month!