It was Rozz Williams who sang: Act 1 is the end, and the show now begins. That's always been among my favorite lines of his.

The songs in Act 2 of my own album are each becoming a discordant mess. The King of Eyes was a 3/4-ish ick of something that may have been a waltz. VU Port is well underway now, with lyrics and some musical direciton. It is also a 5/4 mess of an industrial noise Christmas carol gone all wrong.

And that's the way I like it.

My big concern right now is making sure that act 2 does what it's supposed to do. It should in the gaps, explain the story, and set the listener up for an explosive, vicious hell ride of a third act.