Dedicated to Nicole Taylor, love of my life, for whom I booked this concert as a celebration of her 30th birthday.

While I continue grinding away at my book, podcast, and first album of actual SONGS in many years, here's a peek into some of those songs in their earliest public appearance, stripped down solo acoustic, still finding their legs but obviously chomping at the bit and rearing at the gate.

When the album comes out next year all of these will have another dozen layers of synthesizer and programmed sample-based electronic drums (and as a patron you'll have access to all of the user-made kits I create for this, as well).

New songs here range the gamut of geek, from a piece about Jurassic Park coming true ("Life Finds A Way") to a piece of gonzo journalism from the space between birth and death ("Indecision") to a weirdly tropical number about the neurophysiology of awakening ("Always Catching Up").

You'll also hear some time-tested versions of old fan favorites like "You Don't Have To Move" and "Let It All Get Out" sprawling into lengthy and weird looping explorations, and – this is a storyteller format set – listen to a lot of weirdo ragged banter between me and everyone who was there for my girlfriend's birthday.

Enjoy!