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	Dead Birds (released February 1999)
This album contains eight choice tracks from 1998, including the new version of "Catalog Girl," the bitter take on materialism that was ironically contracted for use in Fashion Television and Ooh La La (see CityTV for more details on the shows).
"Goodbye" "Catalog Girl" "Shooting Birds at the Airport" "You're the Only One" "Dead Girl" "Get You Home" "Stars" 2 "My Life" "Yesterday's Window"	Album PCL201 compact disc $7.00
Review 2 March 2000: Demo Universe (www.demouniverse.com)      It takes a certain mindset to start your album with a song called "Goodbye." And when that song's a harrowing tale of romantic dysfunction a la Roger Waters, you know you're in for a glum ride. Casey Cichowicz, the troubled mind behind Caseyland, wrote, arranged, performed and produced this depressing testament to failure, loss and bitterness. If you're down with it, there's fun (of sorts) to be had. "Shooting Birds At The Airport" is poignant and touching, while the hypnotic "Dead Girl" would sound great on a necrophile's mix tape between Alice Cooper's "I Love The Dead" and "My Wife And My Dead Wife" by Robyn Hitchcock. "Get You Home" is twisted dance-hall tune (think "Love Cats" by the Cure) with very odd lyrics: "He dreams of sex with three teens/He's a bit like me/On Fridays he goes golfing/but he smells of sulfur." The 31-minute length of Dead Birds feels about right; any longer I might have hung myself.           —Jim Santo