I don't remember if this got asked before, but why was there such a long pause between "stuck in a rut" being uploaded to iTunes and your next single being put up? And how did "stuck in a rut" come about anyways? Given it's from all the way back in 2008 I'm curious the events surrounding it.
hm .... it seems like most of your information is wrong. 'stuck in a rut' the audio recording was made in 2005. it definitely wasn't put on itunes until at least 2015, because i didn't have the abilitiy to put things on itunes until then. but i hopefully dated it correctly, based on when it was made (2005). as of 2005 and the many years before that, i was fully capable of writing and recording instrumental music, but the whole 'words' part of it was really not figured out yet. 'i'm stuck in a rut' was essentially all i could fathom at that time. although meanwhile i was going absolutely bonkers via text editors. which i recommend to anyone who is trying to figure out which way is which. my strategy in general was to see if i could deconstruct the entire universe and how it works. that was just the only way i could get my head around the full game of songwriting, including any and all musical/linguistical things i thought i could and might be capable of. somewhere around 2009 i think i found myself ready to get into the full songwriting game, but it still took a few more years after that to get the recording schemes, and the writing schemes, further organized. videos, is yet an entirely separate piece of the puzzle which i had to sort of put together from scratch .... which i am actually doing again now, as it turns out