I recieved the CD. Thanks.

Hi nate and jesse,

You guys know all of our names could be no more german than they are. Hibbs, Swygert, Klotz...They almost border on Klingon sounding. Anyways.....

Nate,

Around You: We dont stop enough to realize what we have. You are absolutely right ! A wonderful song. She definately would remember him or at least I want to believe that. I like the concept of addressing the moment with the conversation about time travel. It created a nice visual to explain the abstract. You do that really well.... I like the chorus musically. Especially the guitar !

Ideas: If it were accpetable to the nate... I would like to attempt to add a bass line. Something simple and subtle but resonant and full.. appropiately of course. I just think a nice bass melody could a touch to the song that is if I could write one worthy. I would also like to try and add some background vocals. In a sparse fashion but in a few places. Or at least try it out and see if it adds.

Wasteland: I really like the rhythm and nucleus. I like the words as well. It is sort of Nick Drake and Moody Bluesish. You can see the story. I think the verse and chorus work well with the idea I had musically. I wanted to explain the line

Who will get your diamonds now
That I am dieing of aids

* I wrote this line about the war boys of Uganda. The ones that are forced to work in the Diamond caves and feilds . Those diamonds are sold to dealers to fund genocides and we buy them here in the united states during christmas time. This whole phenomena made me horribly sad. These boys have no voice. I just saw this imagery of this wasteland with on part of the world in tolkiean ruin and the other in streets of white gold with lavish jewelry. Who will get our diamonds for us if the boys that mine them are dieing of the aids virus ... It is definately meant to be sarcastic towards our own sense of consumerism. It is an oxymoron that I cant believe truly exists. It breaks my heart. I definately agree with you that the line about diamonds works best in a chorus but I would like to try to work in the whole line. I love your melody on verse and chorus and think it works well. I would like to see what it sounds like with harmony . I am so sorry that all I really have is one line and no ideas for music. I just wanted to share the original vision of the half-baked half assed attempt at writing a song that I made. I really like what you did with it but I would like to incorporate some of the ideas I just discussed. I think you have just built upon it very nicely. I am sorry I suck so bad guys.....

Micah