“Methyl Ethel began as a personal challenge.  I wanted to see if I could write, record and release some music before the band I was in at the time finished doing the same.  I did and subsequently withdrew from some close friends.  Relationships were severed, I severed some even closer ones.  This all played out in such a public way, as it invariably does, so I withdrew more.  My first album Oh Inhuman Spectacle became the ‘why me?/fuck you/sorry’ album that I wrote as a confused coping mechanism.  It helped and I enjoyed it.  I continued the introspective journaling with the follow-up, Everything is Forgotten.  For me, that album said ‘who cares? all your emotions are irrational and meaningless anyway.”