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Ask for it by name.

Everything is dirty on top. Not nasty but grimy and a long steady rain cannot wash it away. Here is what you see at the end of the aisle - a smile and one crooked eye. There is what you see in the rearview mirror. There is a midway littered with old programs. There are the acorn girls whose heads fly away. There be dragons which drag on drooling and dreaming and dropping hints to oblivious cousins. Here be essays of my way highways that reach for the A handed off, tag team, to the last person picked. The cellophane crinkle is almost forgotten. You crack the cookie. Your head is one big barometer.

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Action!

Speak louder and then take a powder!
Seeing, as being, can lean toward deceiving.
An old door needs repair.
A new door wouldn’t dare!
(Boyd laughs loudly)

CUT!

FADE TO:

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468 bottles of beer on the wall.

I think a monthly release is just perfect for me. This time frame for constructing a song arose because ((newstereo)) is a profitless pursuit. Time is spent and money is made away from music. The time to create songs is limited. A month is enough time to find the time to work.

But a song a month is also good if suddenly the time/money scale tips to the favor of time. In this scenario, I suddenly have more time than I know what to do with and I can spend that time getting to know a song better.

If I continue to release a song a month and I live the average male lifespan, I will release another 468 songs before my death in 2044.

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Stand by your clown.

…after all he’s just a clown. This pop up book feeling fits just right for now. I keep waiting to get tired of revising but this theme seems a velocipede.


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Scary songs are one way to comfort yourself.

A spooky kid is watching you through a white fence, in bright sunshine, and all you can do is sing. Shadow people shovel dirt in your path and make you want to write the surrounding bubble sound of hitting water or the limb flailing, slow motion, accordian crash of car.

If you think about monsters before you go to sleep you will not dream about them. I believe my mother told that me that when I was little.

Speaking of little, I did lay terrified and frozen with my face to the wall while a dark presence lingered in my doorway.

Or did I dream that?

As my eyes closed I must have been thinking about kittens.

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There is a wobble in learning to live with milestone and drudgery.

Big Bells are ringing in the world.

I heard them in a recording. Audio and Images are abundant and encoded for persistent preservation. All of these recordings on the point of a pin that is lost somewhere in a comfortable chair. Hunt, gather and have a seat.

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(A lot of people sing along with music. Here is a dork that doesn’t.)

I am studying the nature of song by singing without an instrumental anchor. These songs begin with words which lead to tunes. These tunes adopt a tempo and before you know it you are singing a simple song. You can take the music out of a song but you cannot remove the tune. Tune and song are inseparable. Lose the words, if you like, but a tune is hard to get rid of. Tempo has a dialogue with tune. It is a wordless dialogue which is willing to take words along for the ride.

(Any jackass can sing without music.)

This must have been how it began. Back in the days when being a jackass meant nothing at all. Some sub human sitting on a rock in the moonlight studying the nature of song.

(A bootleg of the first concert.)

With no language to sing in Kri embodied vocal ease. She wore a sheepskin draped over one shoulder and made unprecedented use of her voice. With reverb provided by rock formations she dazzled her audience who were unable to get Kri’s cries out of their heads.

(A march made in heaven.)

From the heads of those who had heard came a chorus of innocent copycats. The first song had repeated itself and continues to this day.


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Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 3

“I” is simple stewing. A weekend’s work rolled into a couple of hours with the microphone flipped down. Some things happen very fast. Release Date: 06/01/05

Here be lyrics.

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Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 2

"The Blue Man" is one of the first songs I ever wrote, performed here in a straight attic run. There is a little tip of the hat to The Comedian Harmonists at the end of it. It will be our May 2005 release. The lyrics are here.

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Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 1


RELEASE: “BAck TrAck”

The Paragraphic Pipes make their first official appearance.

New sound ideas this week in the form of four very large, recovered, porch columns to be shifted around in different configurations around a microphone. We’ll see how they bounce the sound about.

I consciously removed the hand holding explanations of what we are doing from newstereo.net. This is to maintain a simple interface for those who are interested and returning. Words of any kind invite one to re-read them. I personally get tired of reading the same things over and over again, so I 'm adopting this “just the facts” approach. This journal is the forum for words and explanations.

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