You can't go home again (everybody knows that by now).

My parents sold our house. This means that in a couple months, the official place I could always count on returning to will be intruded by some other family. I feel ok with this right now although it will be different when I actually go home and experience the disturbing reality of not being able to seek refuge in my normal places: the basement or the tree where my child treehouse used to reside. When I moved to Nashville, I felt the slow loss of Rochester as "my home" and knew that my parents would move eventually. We lived in this same house my entire life so I am not familiar with the feeling of a family move. Im sure it will be disorienting but I think I can handle it.

I am nearing the end of my training at the Recording Workshop. It has been amazing and I can't wait to put my knowledge to work upon my return to Nashville. Part of me doesn't want to leave though. This is kind of like a refuge for audio nerds from all over America. Conversations revolve around audio and music exclusively. There are house partys like any college would have but the drunken arguments revolve around Pro Tools vs. Cubase, Analog vs. digital, stereo micing techniques etc. Pretty bizarre at times.





Ryan Booth was kind enough to take some pictures during the Allie Peden project. Here are some of my favs.