classes and continuing to attend just frequently enough that the professors could feel like I was just there to personally insult them by not participating. And I had these headaches, and these hot flashes that were, mysterious. I really, like…

went through broke all that. To tell you that I cared when you left, that I've cared this whole eleven years that we haven't spoke, that would be a lie. It would be kinder to let the separation stand unbridged. To have my own silent moment of…

When I tried to get sober we moved in together again. Soon enough I was stealing weed from him and playing his XBOX in the basement all day instead of working. When he came home at night I wrote noise music upstairs. On my fourth birthday Mrs…

Before Mrs. Wilson's I had been to two other daycares. I remember the owner of one got kicked by a horse. She came in and showed us her thigh, a black bruise the size of a dinner plate. At another, a kind childcare worker gave me a Mickey and…

There was this television show called Nature. One episode showed a man raising a bear cub to a juvenile bear. When it came time to release the bear into the wild, the man set a weak bear trap, designed to hurt, but not critically injure. He called…

A song written and recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in May 2023

by John Frusciante, Anthony Keidis, Flea, and Chad Smith

by Brian Vander Ark

restless night again endless tossing and turning the anxiety released May 17, 2023 credits: 13-string koto: Darin Miyashiro Shakuhachi: William Watson

"field" recording

Written with with amazing Angie Fights Crime.

Cover song to a girl named Elise. Recorded and mixed very quickly on 5/7/2023 to 5/10/2023 for May’s 30 Day Songs Challenge. “A Letter to Elise” written by Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/Bamonte, originally by The Cure.

Cover song for girls named named Shirley, Deborah, Julie, Jane, Jennifer, Alison, Philippa, Sue, Annabel, Cathy, etc. Recorded and mixed very quickly on 5/12/2023 for May’s 30 Day Songs Challenge. “Song For Whoever” written by Heaton/Rotheray…