Above: McCartney plays air drums and sings along to one of his new songs called "Only Mamma Knows".

"I actually began with the work on this new album, "Memory Almost Full",
before my last album "Chaos and Creation in The Backyard" (released in
September 2005). The first recordings took place in the autumn of 2003
at Abbey Road with my band and David Kahne as producer. I was already
in the middle of it, when I began to talk with Nigel Godrich about a
completely new project – this became then "Chaos and Creation in the
Backyard". When I was finished with all work to "chaos" and had
received a Grammy nomination (2006) for it, I noticed that there was
still this other album, which I wanted to absolutely finish.

I’m strolling down the walkway in front of Buley Library Monday when off to the corner I hear somebody strumming the guitar while a twangy voice sang along with "it’s not okay to be queer, it’s not okay to be a homo".  Behind him was a massive sign attacking just about every group of people under the sun proclaiming "GOD WILL JUDGE YOU!". 

Naturally, this caught my interest.  I walked over to see what their deal was, whether or not they were actually Southern students, and how the surrounding students and campus police were going to react.  They were just extremist hypocritical lunatics – calling themselves "Born Again Christians" and spewing hate for nearly everything imaginable.  Still, I respected their right to free speech and I didn’t let any of it bother me.  The other students obviously didn’t feel the same way as I did as many of them got into a shouting match with the two men and even occasionally threatened them with violence.  One student said he was going to burn one of the guys at the stake.  The guy responded with "well you Roman Catholics are known for the kind of thing, so I’m not surprised". 

The police rushed over and it appeared as though they were going to arrest them, but I guess no law was broken, and they were allowed to stay.  Here’s a few photos of mine:

Southern-News.com ran it as front page story:  "Visitor provokes students"

I was hired to give SCSU’s student newspaper’s website a cleaner, more modern look and to keep it up to date with each new weekly edition.  The previous website hadn’t been updated since October, and it looked like it was designed in the mid-90’s.

I think what I’ve come up with works very well.  I tied in SCSU to the design by using the school’s colors and by including the column of the school logo.  I used a Gothic font for the first two letters in the banner but I didn’t want it to feel too stiff, so I switched it over to a more simple serif font for the rest of the letters.  I tried to make the articles very easy to read and the structure easy to navigate.  I also tried to set it up in a way to encourage readers to leave feedback and to share the articles via Facebook and email. 

So far I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback and students seem to be using the site as I intended them too.  We had over 1,000 visitors during the first day and the traffic has remained steady ever since.  If you check it out please let me know what you think.

http://Southern-News.com

Paul McCartney‘s new album Memory Almost Full comes out June 5th.  I just heard the first single – "Ever Present Past".  Very upbeat, light, melodic, catchy song.  It fits more under the pop label than it does rock, but I absolutely love it.  Seems to be a Heather Mills reference in the lyrics.  He just shot a promo music video for the song Dance Tonight with Natalie Portman.  You can view the making of that video HERE.  And here’s another video of him welcoming you to his new website Meyesight.com

I strongly dislike the album cover.  Click here to listen to the single Ever Present Past.

New album means new tour.  And you know I’ll be there.

I was in a severe need of a break last weekend and my friend Patti was kind enough to grant it to me.  I drove up to pay her a visit and do a little partying for Spring Weekend.  It was wild.  Being a commuter, I haven’t been doing much of the classic "college" stuff in the five years I’ve been going… so it was different, but so much fun.

The weather made it perfect.  Only 2.5 week’s until Patti’s triumphant (but likely short-lived) return to Connecticut occurs.  Counting down the days.