Just four months behind schedule and I feel fine.

By Monte • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Mont-agon

About this time a year ago I had a nice creative streak. I started writing some new songs and I revived work on a couple old ones. I actually started using some of the musical gear I’d purchase a year before. And I was feeling so good about it, I set a goal to complete a recording by May of this year. The title of the album was going to be July.

That didn’t happen, but I don’t mind. I’m still making progress on the project, and more importantly, I’m having fun doing it… mostly. Most of my projects take forever to complete, when I actually manage complete them. And just as many of my projects die a long, lingering death. Hopefully this latest won’t be one of them.

I mention this project on Dirty Sprocket because we had planned to make a video for the song One More Disaster, but after pushing production back a month three times in a row, I’ve decided to just table that particular task until I get the whole recording much closer to completion. It’s too bad, though, because I was excited about it, and I think other were too. Who wouldn’t be excited about a 1980s retro video with cardboard robots and preppy jerk boyfriends.

I’ve put a link to a sample of my latest work-in-progress here for your enjoyment, a song titled God Bless the Also Ran. Just music right now, as I still need to record the vocals. For more information about my various and current music projects, visit my websites at amende.us and vonvaragon.com. I hope you enjoy.

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Who the hell is this guy (or gal) anyway?

Monte is a sad, sad little man. Born and raised in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, he now lives there with his beautiful wife, Michelle Deyo-Amende, and two clever, healthy children, Miles and Madeleine. Sad. He is creative director, and a partner at TDG Communications, a successful advertising agency. Sad. Each day he must commute 30 minutes through pine trees and scenic canyons to his office in the historically colorful town of Deadwood. See, sad.
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