My relationship with the internet goes back a long way - I remember spending a little time in chat rooms goofing around in my late elementary years after we got our dialup connection. Once I hit the emotional upheaval of middle school, I was forever online - I started reading Ed's Diary on the Radiohead website, and joined a fan community message board, where I spent hours with people who were vastly older than me, and knew way more about music than I did. I played text-based RPG games and listened to the weirdest music I could to stake out piece of identity for myself while my friends started doing drugs and melting into alienation. '

I've had trouble with social media since it was rolled out in my freshmen year of college. It was easy to stay in and just zone out reading articles instead of taking the challenges of a professional life head on in person. When we all got smartphones, it started following us out of the house; now all aspects of life have this thread of shame running through it. I'm too easily wooed by the flattened world that lives online.

This demo release project got it's name from the final lyric of this track... you are always at home means that you never have the option to leave the comfort of the new digital confines. All is captured, filtered, and archived - it's a dark thought that I'm burdened by often. But the lyric has a heart - an invitation to good that I'd like to close on. Home has never been perfect; it's never been an unchangeable place. There are limits, but there are still doors and windows to open. I'm learning that more now than ever.