From Gyre to Banmier is the story of a young man, specifically me… The songs in this album are inspired by moments from my childhood, crazy and clumsy friends, masquerade balls, wild college roommates that allowed me the opportunity to spend many a night in the emergency room, and a period in time when I thought it was amusing to dress up as a pirate for accounting 102…
Second Sunrise was originally inspired by a quote from Benjamin Franklin “Lost time is never found again.” I was thinking, if you were lost, if the world you were in was completely impassable and the end seemed likely what would you think about? What would you dream? What events from your life would you remember? What would be important to you?
I worked for IT on my college campus as a student worker fixing computers. In a meeting my boss said he wanted us to dress up for work. He, of course, meant “dress up nicely” for work. I had an idea and decided I would dress up as a pirate instead. I started collecting outfit pieces for my epic pirate costume. I went to work several days as a pirate and just played it off as if nothing was unusual. Interestingly my boss never said a word to me about it he just stared in disbelief. I was so amused I started going to class as a pirate. I was a Business Administration major so naturally my accounting and economics classes were visited regularly by a friendly and seemingly unaware pirate. It was a lot of fun and I ended up getting pirate themed fan mail. Everyone driving by would honk their horns and people would come up to have their pictures taken with me. Ultimately I had to stop because, long story short, people thought I was a themed stripper.
