I've been somewhat inactive lately, as you can see. But do not worry, it is not for lack of ambition or motivation or anything else. It is purely for lack of time. For example: for the last 36 hours I've been awake working on my band's recordings, and the 3 days previous of that I've been sleeping about 5 hours per night, the rest of the time deeply invested in the recordings. Things are moving rather slow, but steady. The results are amazingly surprising, for the good side, but the way to there is filled (or more precisely uberpacked) with endless errors and problems, costing about 3 times over the original planning. Call it inexperience, call it bad luck – I call it pressure. We entered the recording room a month before originally planned, with lots of pressure and a very tight time table – those things always lead to endless problems. Because of that we didn't plan things as we should have and ended up in a very tiring and stressing situation. But today, for the first time since the recordings started, I feel optimistic, because finally things start to sound the way they should.

So I haven't been very active, but it's a good thing too because after the poem-per-day month I felt like I worked too much on my writing, in the sense of pressuring myself to write, and felt like I needed a little breathing space. Give you guys a little breathing space too. So in what little time I had in the in-between I worked on my novel and other writings, keeping a low profile and investing my time in the recordings. I'm still not in the free-time zone, but things are going to change soon. Let me explain:

In about a month I'm flying to Europe for at least 3 months. But the original planning is a year. I'm going to try and promote my band and maybe get signed, hopefully. Professionally it's like going after your dream in the hope of seeing anything out of it, personally it's a huge change, something I needed, something new and exciting. I'm looking to make a very interesting thing out of it – maybe learn something in some foreign university (I thought about literature or so, but so far haven't found anything that I can pay the expenses and is in English – I don't have a lot of money and I can't formally work, because it would be illegal). I'm taking this step to try and focus on my art too, having the opportunity to focus on writing, being inspired by different places and maybe even meet with agents or editors or I don't know, maybe good things will come out of this too.

As you see, I'm not really organized about it, because I don't even know where I'm going yet. I'm starting in Poland, going for my friend's wedding, and we'll see from there. The important thing is that I have to find the place to settle as fast as possible. So right now I'm looking for universities/courses in literature, and/or a legal good job. That's about the only thing I have time to look for, and when I'll find that thing I'll start looking up for the rest. Another interesting things this opportunity brings up is the chance to meet you guys I'll be travling a lot, moving from country to country in the first couple of months, or at least in some period in this adventure. So maybe I'll get the chance to meet some of you guys, that could be very interesting

So if you know of good university that offer interesting things to foreigner (with a modest fee), or how to find work in some country across Europe, or anything else regarding the music-biz, or just plainly want to shout random things – let me know. Either way, right now, I'm VERY tired lol

Sending my love to you guys, and uploading a new poem I've been working on for the last couple of months,

- Omri.






The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses
by Leon Goldensohn

_{I admit to sin in reading history about WWI and WWII. I'm intrigued by those two periods, especially by the latter. This book collects psychiatric interviews with the defendants and witnesses that stood in those trials on 1946, and is aimed at getting to the bottom line of their personalities. Very interesting, very different, fascinating to see the lies people would tell to save their lives, the way they act, everything - simply fascinating.}