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Iowa vs Iowa
Midnight turned with gunshots in the distance — single cracks, slow but rhythmic like a striking hammer, then a fast succession, then nothing beyond the…
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MD8 — mid-April untitled (an exploratory reset)
This instrumental track began with setting up the Yamaha MD8 again after years in suitcase storage.
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further taxing tales & an offset oneiric
I met this book-cook around ‘92 in San Francisco — musician-sensitive. Expenses were getting complicated with non-recoupable due-paying in the…
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Redemption (lost-&-found home recording #9)
The title is from a running registry of concepts that, when the mood hit me, I sometimes threatened to cut out of an imaginary dictionary.
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March 2024

blink (a read-along with oneiric composition thirty-nine)
Try cleaning the blood from the sink. Give up & let the next visitor ponder the traces. Walk through the c-store aisles. Notice boiled peanut…
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ranch house
A vision flashed of him in a terrycloth headband eating a nacho.
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Ocean Cliff Clearing (since cassette demos 1997)
At the time, I was listening to a lot of Felt. I didn’t take the warnings. I was too busy.
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silhouette turning points
Plus: living room tix
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February 2024

registration & the room at the end
The desk clerk smiled & said "Okay, you're all checked in. Now go get yourself a free beer."
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traveling absolutes
I thought I was heading towards a pastoral midwestern junction but the ramp led to an unfamiliar county road where it appeared that industry had come to…
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groundwork
tour prep: A healthy belief in delusions requires occasional vindictive rewards.
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bumba
Looking down, I noticed my shadow — a two-legged shape with a thin appendage, like a profile of a figure with a long-gun — walking into a bank. The sun…
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