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12/21/04

Well, the Holiday Season is upon us. Time to gather around with loved ones (people you have nothing in common with, but due to a similar genetic make-up and societal pressure, you feel obligated to put up with), exchange gifts (consume you pinko bastard, consume!) and revel in the holiday spirit (realize that this whole thing is a sham perpetrated by retail chains and religious zelots to keep you stupid and profits high). It's the best time of the year (Death cannot come fast enough)!

While some of us in the PopRedux camp are actually embittered beyond the point of words at the moment, we'd like to take a moment to fill you in on a few things. Editing, Mixing and Mastering of the new album will commence on or abouts the 28th of December, once the good Doctor X returns from a top secret mission the likes of which are so highly classified, even he doesn't know the full details of his assignment. Again, we'll keep ya posted as we progress along the way to a finished product.

If you check out the shows page, you'll note that we have broken our recording hiatus to ring in the new year with Reno's finest folks, Dog Assassin!!! Details, as ever can be found on the aforementioned page. Seriously though, Dog Assassin kicks ass, and they're nice folk, and we're really excited to be playing with them again. Due to Pete's newly freed schedual, we're hoping to get back to Reno as soon as those fuckers'll have us.

On a final note, any of you folk who do the whole My Space thing can find our new My Space page here. If you're not a member of it, you may want to consider joining, because not only can you use it to get laid, but you can now inflate our egos with it as well!

That may have been a little long winded, but fuck it. I think maybe it's time we started setting up for a little roadtrip. ~ Population Reduction

12/09/04 ~ More Sad News

As many of you doubtless already know "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott of Pantera and Damageplan fame was shot to death on stage in Columbus, Ohio last night minutes after starting a set. Whatever else you can say about the guy or his bands, he was one fucking hell of a shredder, and this is a sad turn of events. Twenty-Four years to the day that John Lennon was gunned down as well. Go on, pop on that old copy of "Far Beyond Driven" or "Cowboys from Hell" and rock out today. We will be.

12/07/04

Since we know that all six of you are turning mauve with excitment, here's an update:

It was a physically and mentally exhausting weekend...as a result the Doc has spent the last two days spanging just to eat and Pete was last seen monday afternoon down on Potrero with a vacant look in his eyes muttering "I...I will survive...just so long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive..." Despite the set back that a mental and financial breakdown would imply, things are commin' up roses! The tracking is complete! Under the watchful ear of Chris Cline even the headphone mix was sounding fantastic. We will now commence with the mixing with Chris again at the helm. Updates and details as we proceed.

In other great news from the PopRedux camp, we've finally received the finished logo, and it looks radder than fuck! We'd like to thank Sean for taking the time to kick it out, and dealing with us being picky, pithy, princesses about it. As a result, we should start moving on all that great merch that none of you want real soon.

Ya know, I'm almost positive that there was something else to say but fuck me if I can remember what it is now. I'm 'a go fetch some lunch, bitches. ~ Population Reduction

12/02/04

Amidst a storm of personal chaos there is, as the saying goes, a silver lining. Yes, ladies, things are gonna be ok. Read on:

We'd highly encourage you to all go out and buy twelve copies of Maximum Rock And Roll's December '04 issue (#259). Head straight for Elliott Lange's column "Zombie Picnic," and you'll find a glowing review of not only our crappy demo, but our crappy live show as well! Seriously though, he really had some great things to say about us (and the Doc especially...look out Hammoura and Sandoval!), and we think it's pretty rad.

On an even more important note, we'll be hitting the studio in TWO FUCKING DAYS! As stated previously, we'll be working with Chris Cline who has not only proven himself to be a great engineer, but a great guy as well. We're really pumped about working with him, and getting this shit down to tape. We'll try to keep the site updated frequently so that all five of you can follow the progress as we track, mix and master this fucker.

For no real reason whatsoever, we'd like to leave off by reminding you of the words of the great lecturer, physicist, and pioneer in the field of quantumelectrodynamics Richard P. Feynman: "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." Yeah, we know, kinda weak, but hey, it is a good quote. ~ Population Reduction