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First day of April:
I have played so many tricks.
Who is the fool now?
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Sundays in the park:
Drumming, traffic, sweet birdsong,
Lovely car alarms.
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Pungent aroma,
Skunk versus car, skunk loses.
Mommy won't come home.
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Aeolean muse,
Sing to me your dulcet tones:
Windchimes in autumn.
(I actually heard the first three notes of this piece on my windchimes and the whole thing unfolded from there.)
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Raking on Sunday:
Leaves observe no one's Sabbath;
Neither, then, shall I.
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Recorded at an oceanography meeting in Salt Lake City this February (2012). The Ekman Spiral is a phenomena that describes the vertical change in ocean current from wind at the surface, which is in a spiral decreasing with depth. The spoken…
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I purchased a new M-Audio midi keyboard during RPM. The software alone was worth the $100.
There was no chance I was wasting any time during RPM with a learning process.
Today, I got the opportunity to install the software and plug it in. This…
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Something that I'm now ready to share from last September. Took a while. But recent changes made it possible. Blues rock I'd guess.
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A "remix" I did a while back that got lost in the shuffle. The original was for our 2010 RPM album "Onion Bell" and can be found here: http://alonetone.com/cavestreet/playlists/onion-bell
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Traffic in Eastern Massachusetts blows. Just saying.
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The 15th and final song written for RPM and FAWM. Fittingly the lyric is about the end of the process... even though there was still a ton left to do when I came up with it. I guess I was feeling optimistic, which is seriously unusual for me.
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"O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good:
for his mercy endureth for ever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so" Psalm 107:1-2
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
Not sure what genre this would fit into:
Experimental Corporate Gothic Steampunk Electro-folk? (Although, I guess the 'experimental' is sort of implied by the rest of the name.)
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
I was planning to write a love song, but .. it didn't quite come out that way.
3/11/12 - I re-recorded the first verse with better-sounding vocals. I'm leaving the version on the RPM Jukebox…
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Part of The Kitchen Sink, AMUC's RPM 2012 album.
If you like what you hear, you can also find the entire Kitchen Sink album as a playlist, with everything in the correct order.
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The homophobic Reverend was embroiled in a homosexual sex and crystal meth scandal in 2006. This was my rally song for him. I was hoping he would preach on why it is not bad to be gay. INstead he went and got reprogrammed.
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This was an entirely improvised tune. The story kind of tells itself. Red wine and marijuana on the roof of the Hotel Vitale can lead to events that are no bueno. Blacking out behind the wheel is no bueno. Ingesting marijuana unknowingly in a…
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A friend told me about this experience. I cannot name names but he insisted it was a true story. The "Phil" mentioned is not retired Senator from Texas "Phil Graham," I don't care what he says, he was not there: the evidence is conclusive.
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After a brief hiatus out in the weeds, I found myself back on my own course, but what to do if the force knocks me off my horse and breaks the resolve of my frame to sustain?
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Don Bolles was a newspaper reporter who was killed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976 while investigating a land deal that was closely tied to the Mafia. He was blown up in front of the Hotel Clarendon, and I had a scary experience at the same hotel…
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A true story from a rough week. The window into the soul of a man really does run through the contents of his stomach.
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I grew up in Redding, California. That part of Northern California is more like Alabama than it is San Francisco. Hence, it could be called "Calibama."
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If you ever drive on Interstate 5 in California, between Sacramento and WIlliams, you will drive by both Arbuckle and College City. This is their song.
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Whenever I am at a loss for words and I'm just not sure what to say, I think about how control is an illusion and I say "Ya-ta-hey."
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Only the people with problems call after the decent have gone to sleep...
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The epic story of an orange fight at a Cal USC game that my family won in spectacular fashion.
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"THE Message?"
My God.... THE Message?
The Message, My MESSAGE After the beep?
"Be kind to strangers, and even kinder to those you know and love. That was the best I could do, so now I have the Batman Blues."
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A story about a good-natured woman and a bunch of recent parolees from the state prison in Vacaville, California, on a Greyhound bus.
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A true story about a transcendent summer job I had with Scott Shoffner.
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I spend a night there once, I was dizzy with Hadrian's Blues.
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I wrote this song after seeing the man who almost killed me and not acting out all of my revenge fantasies. He was selling TVs at Costco.
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The story of a house of ill-repute that met a very bad end.
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Big Brother is watching... Time to get paranoid.
Rough live studio demo.
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A cautionary tale about falling back into addiction.
Rough live studio demo.
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When you finally realise that that lifelong friend isn't really a friend at all and it's time to say 'goodbye'.
Rough live studio demo.
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Standing outside, looking in. Keeping people at arm's length until you're sure of their intentions.
Rough live studio demo.
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Don't look if your going to feel guilty........
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were all going to be dead one day ...... what do we care?................
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#7 for this years rpm, the album name is of the same name,, small watercolor piano moments, with the occasional vocal such as this
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Just a simple Blues, I'm not a harp player, but I did the best I could, puffed me out !!! Oh yeh don't tell my mate Dave. He plays the harp on all my songs & he'll have guts for garters if he finds out !!!
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My groping hand shoved
Away once more from delight:
Supple joys denied.
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Sunlight streaming down.
Gentle breeze disturbs new leaves.
Spring's awakenings.
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Roasting on one side,
Freezing on the other side:
The joy of campfires.
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The coals are red-hot,
Nag champa incense burning,
Cherry Coke in hand.
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The coals are red-hot,
Yellow kernels a-roasting,
Three ears are ready.
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Antidisestab-
lishmentarism:
too many sylla-
(bles?)
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"Warren, line three, please."
Annoying public address.
(He's a busy man.)
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Unstoppable thief,
Never aware of our needs,
Time flows on and on.
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six 7/8 schlemiel schlemazel
It's an instrumental, too.
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9/11, I . . .
(Do I have survivor's guilt?)
. . . worked a normal day.
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Got to get going!
Only ninety days remain
To pen forty more.
(I'd reached the halfway mark for eighty haiku; I must have written this sometime in November 2011.)
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Answering machine.
You might have something to say
When you hear the beep.
Those who have my home phone number know that this has been my actual answering machine message for over a year.
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I wrote this in Feb 2012 - I've been getting into watching documentaries on the NASA Apollo program and also having fun with a Telecaster. The Sea of Tranquility is a place on the Moon.
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The curse of our time:
Cellular stupidity.
Can you hear me now?
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Tied up, fourteen-all.
Coiled tight, yet poised, until
He hears, "Ready . . . fence!"
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May the twenty-first,
Harold Camping said, "It's done."
Sinners, best repent.
May the twenty-one,
Party time for ev'ryone.
Sinners, best repent.
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A simple table
Set before my enemies,
My head anointed.
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Complete innocence,
My Kindergarten mind-state.
Why are kids so mean?
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language and communication
john lydon told me
the written word is a lie
so likewise
the recorded sung or spoken word say i
on the table
there sat a cat or a telephone
-what shape was the table?
-what was the name of the cat…
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Believe in something,
But not what they dream about;
Their dreams are evil.
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Too bad I don't know how to play an actual violin.
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Written in 2002; played to death 2003-4; retired in 2005. Feels good to bring this one back from the dead.
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A HOUSE CALLED BROKEN
youre in a house and your wasting away
youre in a house and its long long lonely day
youre in a house that you cant wait to forget
youre in a house all broken a little lie you tell yourself
but when it falls to pieces…
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