thank you, as always, and updates

just wanted to take a minute to thank all of you patrons who've been here for a while, the one's who've joined more recently, and y'all who've just showed up to support us for as long as you can.

we're well aware of how fortunate we are to have all of you. we hope we can get things moving here a bit more. maybe even interacting with y'all on a more regular basis. we don't have the best patreon model for getting tons and tons of people in here, but it's what we're happy with and it means the world that you're all on board with that.

just a little update for you so you know the direct impact you've been having:

-j is officially a full time musician. we've just met that threshold with our royalty income and this patreon to make sure they can keep focused on making music and living without dedicating time to a day job.
now, there's any number of things that could happen, our streams going down, people leaving here, or whatever that would cause a shift in that, but we're feeling pretty confident with our ability to keep that stable with incredible thanks to you all.

-we were able to purchase good quality drum and vocal mics to actually start recording lp2 properly on our own. so far we're actually close to having about 5 songs near completion. still a long way to go, but studio time doesn't really work for our process and having this income really helped us to get those mics so we can work on the album in our way and on our time.

that's really the two big ones for now that come to mind. we appreciate you. we want to try to make being a patron a little more worth your while without taking time and energy away from why we're all here (more glass beach music), so hopefully you'll notice that shift as we move forward.

also, are these updates nice? do people like them? cos i can start sort of blogging here if that interests people at all too.