(geo) Hugest love and thanks for all your emails! I will be back into the emailbag again, now that the mastering's nearly complete- thanks Shannon for minding the store!

(geo) I have been remiss and missing, AWOL as of late...reflecting, grieving, emptying old bags of junk...sweeping out the attic, cleaning the storage shed that is my head.

Every year for a decade, I have hated the Grammys! Jealousy, envy gave way to depression and misery!!! I stopped celebrating my industry's big night.

As I've been re-mastering the 1990 "New Dream" album for the upcoming reissue this Spring, it all washed over me again, memories flooding back from that time, in the studio. It was very frustrating to have created that album all the way through the cover art, in the midst of shooting a video, and then see it all evaporate. We went through a similar ending with A&M prior to signing on with RCA/BMG, and I hoped we'd have some support, get some momentum going this time around. (ADDED: Paul Atkinson was always a champion of ours, as were a number of others...it was the shift at the top of the company that wasn't in our favor.) To have everything devolve like it did...well, I see that Shannon and I pretty much left the music business at that time. We continued to enjoy our writing, but it's only been the last four years that I've (speaking for myself) had the desire to rejoin the fray. Thin-skinned of me I suppose, but there it is.

Last night, I really enjoyed the party...the music, the family, the business...it was again, a fun night, whew! Go OutKast, Beyonce...Missy Elliott (Work It, my fave tune of last year)!!!