It has been May since I wrote in my blog. A lot has happened, and a lot has yet to happen. It’s been over a year since I left Abney Park and I’ve accomplished a lot. I started Splinter Dance Company, I also danced with Jerboa Dance Company. I turned 30, and I started a new music project. I’m amazed how much I can still discover about myself as an artist and a human being.
I felt that it was time for a change, and after a couple of sad months I realized I needed a re-invented sense of purpose. I have decided to finish my degree in Art History and Art Administration. I’ve applied to a school in California and hope to find out soon whether or not I’ve been accepted. My ultimate goal is to become an art curator. I know I have quite a few years of school ahead of me and the field is competitive, but I know it’s worth it. I will still dance and sing, but I want a life that will take me away from tending bar. I promised myself I would be in a different place at 30, and I’m eager to move forward with the next chapter of my life.

Chance and I getting ourselves ready to move down to San Francisco. We’ve had enough of Seattle and can’t wait for new opportunities and a new scene. Adventures are fun and scary, but I know it will be okay because I have my best friend at my side. Everyone should have a unicorn.

Imaginary Daughter, my current music project (with the amazing Marc Tweed) will follow me down to the SF Bay area. We’ve written a 5 song EP and are currently mastering it. We will put it up on bandcamp as soon as its finished. The band has also been collaborating with some stellar folks. The amazing Monica Mendenhall has been hard at work building a wireless midi controller that I can wear on stage. I will basically be wearing an invisible synth. This movement oriented instrument will activate 12 channels of audio and video. Monica is also creating some beautiful stage outfits. I’ve also had the privilege of working with my good friend, the wonderful Libby Bulloff. We shot some amazing HD video in a 100 year old elevator a couple of weeks ago. Marc and I hope to premiere a Imaginary Daughter in Seattle before I move to SF. We are aiming to play mid- November. We hope you will come out to celebrate with us. It may be a simple show without bells and whistles, or it may come together with out all the stops. Either way, the music is what’s important, and music there will be!

I’ll keep you posted!

- Finn

Marc and I have been hard at work creating a music style for Imaginary Daughter. Our first song is wonderfully gritty, sexy and naughty. Its great to write lyrics and melodies. I’ve never had the opportunity to sing my own words. It is really awesome. Here ya go folks our first preview track… “Pick-Up Line”.

I love to make music, not just perform it.

So after 8 months of searching and interviewing, I found my accomplice, his name is Marc Tweed.

Marc and I have been hard at work writing songs, recording and drinking copious amounts of whisky afterwards.  I really enjoy songwriting and finding all the different places my voice can go.  I feel like I really get to grow in this new environment. I can’t tell you how important that is.

I had the idea to name the band “Imaginary Daughter” because of my mother.  I went to visit her earlier this year, and she had several friends that had never met me.  She would tell them about me, and all the crazy things that I was doing. In jest they would call me her imaginary daughter.  I told Marc the story, and he loved the name too.

We are working, playing and hopeful.  We are already collaborating with friends that some of you probably know.  I’ll update more as we go along, but for now wish us the best of luck.  Our goal is to play our first show at the end of the summer in Seattle.

-Finn