Tuesday, August 17, 2021

A Thematic Primer of Bring Me The Beasts Albums:

1. Blip!: A bunch of instrumental shit I wrote just trying to vibe. 2. Everyday Jihad: This is a collection of my first songs. There is no cohesive theme. 3. Everything in the Medicine Cabinet Has Expired: The songs on this album are all comprised of bits and pieces of poems I wrote in my early twenties. 4. arrow.: This instrumental album is all about my relationship with the conception of God and whatever that means. The album is instrumental because I don’t believe it’s appropriate to convey feelings and thoughts about The Devine in words. 5. Antarctica: The bottom line is that in my mid teens I fell down the Lovecraft rabbit hole, and this instrumental album is my imagined soundtrack to a movie about a group of explorers who head to Antarctica and find out some horrible truths, ie, my soundtrack to At The Mountains of Madness. 6. Exiting The Butcher Shop: This album is about me dealing with me. If there are any Freudians out there, this is the one to analyze. 7. Unlove: This album is about experiencing, surviving, and coming out the other side of divorce feeling stronger and knowing yourself better. 8. We All Go Through It: I am too close to this material to ascribe an overarching theme to it. I really just tried to write good songs and paid more attention to making good music and being more intentional about production. This album, in a way, is about the constant mantra I have in my mind of ‘do the work, ignore the noise’. 9. I Did The Best I Could: I have made 8 albums in 1 year. This is the best of what I accomplished with my meager human talent, presented to you in full earnestness.

Saturday, July 17, 2021

The Shape Of Revolution Music To Come

Revolutionary music used to vary from culture to culture and era to era, but we already have (at least) 2 great protest songs specifically about Jeff Bezos in the last 5-10 years (Amazon Prime by Mikey Mike, and Bezos 1 & 2 by Bo Burnham) I’m looking forward to ‘The Best Of Fuck Jeff Bezos’ revolutionary playlist destined to come out in 5-10 years when we are all terminally online and in a shared and homogeneous world culture. I’m sure it will be lit! Also, Elon Musk is a bitch.

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Bukowski

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire”. - Charles Bukowski What a good ass quote. When I first started reading poetry, I was struck by the motivation it contained, and by the kind of stoic perseverance it pointed towards. As shit started to get real in life, I still found comfort in it. It still reinforced me. I have to admit though—these days—I find myself asking, ‘Why the fuck is so much shit on fire?’ This is me using dark humor as cope, but for real, if anybody has something soft for me to walk through or even sit down on for a moment, hit me up.

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Pizza

The guy bringing out your no contact curbside pick up pizza with a big smile: Hey! How are you doing? You: Good! How are you? Him: do you remember me? You: (smiling, trying to mentally connect his face to someone you might remember, but failing), ah, I don’t know man. Where should I remember you from? Him: high school! (Sees you trying to make the connection but failing, tells you his name) You: (not even remotely remembering the name or the face, but appreciating someone being excited to see you and not wanting to be rude) Oh! How are you! Him: Good man! How are you? You: I’ve made a lot of bad decisions. Him: (handing you the pizza) That sucks! Have a good night! You: Yeah! You too! Good to see you!