this album is two things to me: 1) an album that's basically about what it is like having Asperger's Syndrome and 2) a test to try and work within your means. Allow me to break the second one down first.

The reason I created humanbeyondrepair was my way to try and get into the mind of people who have Asperger's Syndrome. I was diagnosed with this since I was 3. Since then, I have been obsessed with music (mostly, listening to it), and wound up finding out through the internet that there are many artists from Gary Numan to Craig Nicholls to Ladyhawke who have Aspergers. While the far latter wrote about her experience with Asperger's, I felt like not enough artists give people a good idea of what it is actually like to have it. In this poses a problem.

The problem is that it would be impossible for me to try and write from various perspectives. (It was hard enough trying to stay in touch with the few Aspie people I know.) So, I kept my attempts to write songs about others to a slight minimum and settled for writing about it from, mostly, my point of view, in hopes that some parts of it matches the truth of other Aspies.

humanbeyondrepair, to me, does not mean I am broken, damaged, or anything of that ilk. It means that I think of myself as a complicated upgrade of humanity. You know how upgrades or improvements of certain products are complicated to people at first, but they eventually get into it? Well, I won't sit here and say that I am a very simple guy, but I can offer you a cheat sheet, provided that you are willing to pay attention to it.

And so, I give you humanbeyondrepair. Honest, playful, serious, funny, sympathetic, messy, insular, inviting. In all of its glory.