Who else out there is a perfectionist? If you are, you know how stressful we usually make our own lives.

I consider myself to be quite the perfectionist. Well, about some things. I really couldn't care less whether or not I do the absolute best job possible cleaning the lint filter on the dryer. The end result is pretty much the same.

However, I really do care a whole hell of a lot about my personal music that I present to you.

I mean, this is a solid representation of my personality, my thoughts, and my work ethic and if I don't nail this, I'm gonna call you back for a second date, and you're going to say to yourself "I don't date anyone that has a kick drum that out of balance in the final mix. Puhlease."

So what have I been doing all this time?

I seem to have a problem with writing in my blog or sending out e-mails consistently because of all the other things that are going on in my life.

For awhile there I was really big into finance. Has anyone ever read the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad? If you haven't, I would highly recommend it.

It really gives you a new perspective on how to view making money. It doesn't cover everything, but gives a very good starting point.

So because of this book, I spent some time learning about the potential of my 401K, and made some neat changes in how I'm investing in it that hopefully will make me a millionaire when I retire.

(This is a hint for those of you that plan on sucking up to me later)

Plus, for all of you "music is my life" types of people, do you ever have a period, when you really don't want to listen to music at all? Because I think I went through some of that recently as well.

When I have a period of time that I just don't want to listen to anything, I usually stock up on tons of stand-up comedy albums. Oh boy, they're the best.

My favorites include Jim Gaffigan, Bill Maher, and Chris Rock. And I found that some stand-up comedians are just down-right painful to listen to!

Have you ever listened to Frank Caliendo's album, Make the Voices Stop? Ouch.

So yea, that's what I've been listening to recently. I did grab the newest release from Miss May I, Monument, only because I started listening to them before they got signed and I was very interested to hear their evolution.

Check out the video for their single Relentless Chaos:



That singer's voice on this tune is sick.
But let's talk about the subject line now.
I've still been working on my music and since I'm such an anal perfectionist I remixed and remastered all my previously released songs. (Not including the very rough ones from long ago)
And... all of my songs are up for FREE DOWNLOAD. Yea.
I know that for awhile, I had some of the songs allowable only for streaming and then the rest you could download, but none of that monkey business.
Please go to my Reverbnation page and download all of my newest songs again to get the power-housed remixed and remastered versions that are sure to have you creamin'.
However...
I would like to discuss my future plans as far as releasing any more music. What's going to happen from now on is only going to be beneficial for those that are on my e-mail list.
I will be releasing more music, but it will only be able to be heard by those that are on my e-mail list and it will only be up for a limited time. 
Yea.
You see, I want to give you guys the exclusive rights to listen to my newest un-publicly released material, but I would still like their to be some anticipation and excitement when I release all of my tunes collectively as an album later.
So I want to alert you right now, that I have a NEW song on my Reverbnation page that can only be heard by my e-mail list subscribers and it's only going to be up there for two weeks.
It's called Don't Bother and I encourage everyone to give it a listen while you still can! Plus, if you think that it sounds really good, you can encourage others to sign-up and listen as well so they can get in on the action.
But I wanted to let you all know that I'm still here and kicking. I'm just a perfectionist and have a difficult time moving forward and probably spend too much of my efforts perfecting the past.
We'll definitely be in touch (Hopefully in a more-consistent manner) and I hope that everyone has a fantastic week.
Feel free to leave me a comment or reply at any time :)
Honest(Kyle)

When you have projects and things that you're really proud of, it's fun to get your friends involved. And then if they screw it up, you can pretend like everything is fine, completely erase their tracks in the recording, and spit in their food the next time you see them.

I kid. I kid. But I have definitely thought about getting some of my other musical and non-musical buds involved with my HonestKyle tunes since it started as a small project. I thought that giving my friend Pat a few voices on my gang vocal tracks would be a good place to start since he's "enthusiastic" and he lives a stone's throw away.

The tune that Pat put a few of his grunts and yells on is "Falling Asleep" which is available for listening right this very moment at my ReverbNation, Facebook (Click on the "My Band" tab), Myspace, or even by just clicking the player in this blog. Boo ya!

You'll hear him shouting and growling on the words "Go!" and "Can't stop this!" And just to warn my other nearby buds, I might be calling you next to help with future gang vocals like:

"Yea!" and "Let's Go!"

Other classics include:

"Come oooon!", "This time!", and "Hey!"

"Falling Asleep" is kind of an interesting creation that really makes me marvel in the mysteriousness of musical composition. Look at my big words.

What I'm talking about is how different something can seem in your head as compared to when it's actually laid out and recorded to a track and that's what caused me to make a substantial change to this tune halfway through the drum-tracking process.

This leads me to a fun little factoid about this tune:

You know the section near the middle where I sing "I feel like dosing off... but I've formed an obsession. I keep myself from falling asleep... when I imagine you here laying with me."

That was actually going to be the chorus. Hence where the title of the song came from.

But when it came time to record the drums, and I had my scratch guitar track going along with it, I was just blown away by the "You grabbed my hips..." section and rewrote the ending to accommodate.

Music is like spinning a lit bottle rocket. It's unpredictable, and it makes people move.