My first album, Neon Apocalypse, was released on November 13, 2001, while I was a senior in college at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. By the time it had come out, I had spent two-and-a-half years on it. It was primarily made up of songs I'd written between the ages of 16-19 (1996-1999), and was recorded mostly in the music lab at the University (though some of it was done in my various dorm rooms in Sykes Hall).

It was originally going to be called Lemonymous, (an offshoot of the song "Lemon Tea"), but I panicked that that title was too weird and went with the current title. It was originally devised as a concept album - the main character goes out into the world to change it, falls in love, and is nearly destroyed by the power of that love. Idealized teenage romanticism, really.