About Me
well it all started back in 1996 when I was living in Northern California, and a guy said to me, "you should learn to play a real guitar and make real music instead of playing the air guitar". So I picked it up and felt so connected to it, that I learned to play guitar and started writing music shortly after and strted writing songs(not that they were very good but you gotta start somewhere). So finally in 1998 I started writing songs for my own project.
After being influenced by a band i was in called the dyslexics I started writing punk songs, such as Rachel. I started wroking on my own project which became the Jeweled Iris project. Some of my first songs were No Image and Rainy Day. In 1999 I wrote another punky song called Trendiness. In 2000 I put together what I thought were my 8 best songs, and sloppily recorded a demo called the Parallax Paradox, which included, Rachel, Rainy Day, Transylvanian Castle, Sunset On A Mountainside, For Kristen, Frustration, The Sum Of Your Life, and Trendiness, and Beam Me Up Scotty(a song I did when I was 8).Then in later 2000 I went back out to california for a month or so, when I found myself with a new handful of songs, which I came home, moved into an apartment and started working on, these songs became my second demo which was self titled.
these songs included, In Memory(an instrumental I dedicated to my deceased cousin), A Mothers Love, A New Life, Monica(a Dylsexics remake), No Goodbye's, Silent Night(not the christmas song), For Kristen, If I were a Forest Ranger, Reincarnate, The Pouring Rain, and Emptiness.I let these songs sit in the back of my mind and on my computer for about a year before I finally decided to cut the demo in 2002. All of these songs were recorded on a Fostex analog tape machine 4 track.Then After my tape machine ceased to function, i won big at the boat, and bought the BOSS BR532, digital 4 track, and began working on another project. The first songs I started recording with it were a cover of the smashing Pumpkins song "Honeyspider", then I started working on one of my own, "Lonely". Then The Cover of "Starla".By the end of 2002 I thought my album was finished, when I was inspired to write "Hold Me Down". I was so pleased and encouraged by the song, that I decided to make it a double disc. So I kept writing songs, and filled a second disc. It was finshed in June of 2003.After that I found that my inspiration to write songs started to become fleeting. Between the summer of 2003 and the present, I have only managed to write "Stephanie", "Charity", The new version of "Sweet Lullaby", a few goofy songs like "Bacon", the cover of "Trogdor The Burninator", and "Song about Sibbie".I spent the time working with a friend Kory Goeken, on acoustic covers of songs we loved. I was also helping my friend Blake with songs that they were doing in their band, as well as a few we did just the two of us. I also started recording other people that I thought had potential and talent. I wanted to help them bring out the best in their music.Eventually I got Kory and Blake and a guy named Jason Kaps, and Matt King together and we started a band which became known as Saltwater Psychosis. In Saltwater Psychosis I wrote songs like Crazy, and Swet Lullaby. We practiced and got ready for a show we had booked with The Crash Harder, Echo 3, and The Amazing Killowatts. We played our show despite that Kory our frontman ditched out on us, and our PA didn't show.
We found the use of a PA from my friend Ryan Winstead, and we were able to play the show. Since then the band has not gotten back together.In the spring of 2005, Blake and Jason and I tried to start it back up but due to time and schedule conflicts it never came to be anything. So now, I have not been pursuing anything, and I have been pursuing other fields of interest in careers. Untill Recently I have started writing songs again. I have written "Stupid Car", I wrote an instrumental song for a girl that broke my heart in the worst kinda way, and I ran into an old girlfriend last summer that I totally obssesed over for a week and wrote "The Jenny Goertzen Rock Suite". I was currently recording a project of Worship songs and Hymms. Now I have a band together, and we will hopefully get out and play some shows, when we get our set down tight.
Now I'm looking at doing a rock opera about Spiderman
