The song cycle I've told some of you about, well, I feel like sharing how exactly I go about researching and composing the songs. Here's an example I'm especially proud of. This is the song I wrote for Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci was an activist, founder, and leader of the Italian Communist Party. All of you people who have been inundated with theory ( Read more... )

I'm now a moderator on the World/Inferno Friendship Society's Message board.

So coffee. And music. And someone else's confusion. And the abiding belief that yr actually worth more than you feel. Sometimes it's difficult to believe. But I guess you just keep beliving it right? No matter what, you just continue to insist to yrself that yr worth something. And that eventually someone else will realize this to. I mean, that's ( Read more... )

I've been reading the journals of Charles Baudelaire lately.

"What is Love?
The need to emerge from oneself.
Man is an animal which adores.
To adore is to sacrifice and prostitute oneself.
Thus all Love is prostitution."

"To be a great man and a saint by one's own standards, that is all that matters ( Read more... )

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Vast, brilliant vault ( Read more... )

An actual update? What? Will wonders never cease ( Read more... )

So, here's the deal. I commented on someones LJ. It was a meme. The meme was comment on this thing and the person responds with a letter. You then name 10 songs that start with that letter. My letter was D ( Read more... )

It's done at long last. All the instruments are down. Mixing and what not happens on Tuesday. Couldn't be happier. Sounds great, it's a diverse group of songs, it was alot of fun to record. Now I just have to figure out a way to come up with a enough scratch for packaging (which will be spartan and DIY most likely) and pressing etc etc etc. I ( Read more... )

i hate the holidays. so much.