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just launched an alt substack called The Dark Slope focused on my very recent dive into cryptocurrency investing. My second piece for the publication centers on how we are now turning energy into money (current into currency, that is), and how that upends the value of work.
a prompt to soundtrack a supermarket tv spot turns into a meditation on time and place, and 3 great tracks
21 December 2024
GreenAcres, FL
Squeezed this recording in and among requisite holiday obligations. This track’s always cut right through me in the best way. Christmas songs are tinged with sadness. Not Frosty The Snowman, of course, but a lot of them. The nod to sadness, I think, is what makes so many holiday songs universal.…
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This spaced-out Someone To Watch Over Me is a late morning take, on the heels of a night that saw Luna cluster 3 epileptic seizures between 8:30p and 5:30a. It was a long night. We were all a bit drawn.
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In early May 2018 for a couple weeks, while I lived in LA’s Laurel Canyon, a mockingbird set up shop atop a utility pole just across Gould Ave from our cottage. He spent his time flitting and flipping on his perch, calling out across the hills for a mate.…
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a song about the gains in losses
Leaving New York Sessions
18 – 21 May 2024
1/2 way up the hill
is a long way down
to extend your horizon
to wave away clouds
into the great unknown
into endless blue
1/2 way up the hill
was the best we could do
where calm clear sky
is the everyday
no wonder the sun
yearns to steal away
into the great unknown
into endless blue
1/2 way up the hill
was the best we could do
echoes of times
when we were strong
swirled into good bye
after so long
what keeps you alive
is not the same
as what makes you live
or what flies away
Leaving New York Sessions
Brooklyn, NY
21 May 2024
June 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of my 1st record, Windfall (https://thereflectors.bandcamp.com/album/windfall). With that album, I came into my own as a full-fledged songwriter, and fulfilled a lifelong dream to arrange and orchestrate my music into a sum greater than its parts.…
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One of my fav Eno tracks off my fav Eno record, Before & After Science. Performed in an April 2021 livestream from my fantastic temporary living situ in the converted Hood’s Sarsaparilla Soda factory in Lowell, MA.
20240521.1803
One final ride on the Q, to and from my Brooklyn apartment of 17 years, through my home city of 30 years. On to the next, now, far away.
Recorded a bunch of tracks in the almost-vacated apartment leading up to my final departure, as I readied the space for a final showing and handoff to new owners.…
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on the metro now,
a sunday at 0815,
everyone’s either on the phone
or asleep.
difficult to tell
which from which.
i was not wrapped up in a device,
until now,
as i draft into an app.
typewriters are difficult to wield on the Q,
no pen or paper on me, either.…
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Brooklyn, NY
19 May 2024
CVS, NYC / 20240125.1521
I spent ten minutes last Thursday afternoon wandering a Brooklyn CVS while waiting for an Rx. This was my first time back in a city pharmacy since returning from 2+ months in Florida. Amazing how many more shelves are inaccessible than when I left.…
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In a serene and random Creative Commons YouTube use this week, Truth Is a Lonely Place [Disquiet 0138] soundtracks a beach sunset at the 12:22 mark in a half-hour journey through California’s North Coast by videographer Michael Bonic.
The original track is off my 2014 record Particle Theory:
…and was composed in 2014 for the Disquiet Junto #0138 – Video Sonic Void.…
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