Project 2 of this course was to have the movie trailer provided, this time with the percussion removed, and therefore us to add our own take on it...here it is...all very thunderous!!

big ballad with a self-indulgent 7 minute guitar solo at the end.

work with animoog and layers and stuff like that -- mixed in audacity on the macbook --

Blindest eyes scan your scenes like a surreal pastel painting red, blue, gold, teal and green Pristine picture fit for tainting Gaussian haze erases meaning. Formless faces - you'll go unseen. where when the darkest path it never…

New Hampshire. New Hampshire and my family flat-out rejected them both. Of course, their being addicted to and eventually withdrawing from heroin didn't make explaining who they were easy. At my nephew's house, after I showed them his alcoholic…

flashes, which had matured into a neck breaking twitch. In the future an acupuncturist would label this chill on the left side of my neck, liver-wind which will feel on point for an alcoholic sobering up. So I had a hobby, stealing and re-installing…

A few years into the rift and I found myself walking on train tracks. I liked the peace. The only thing that ever came to interrupt my solitude was the train. I couldn't stay. I bounced back and forth between the end of the world, Cape Cod, and…

horrified credit union members gaped through the window still clutching their signed checks and between manicured or grease-stained nails. It was a strange time for credit unions. They didn't know if they still wanted to be credit unions or if…

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