Years ago, I used a phrase that I half-jokingly called a “gimmick” to help people get high and stay high, in the spiritual sense, expanding consciousness into higher realms.
The phrase was simple:
“Get me down from here.” Continue reading
Here’s a song I wrote about UFOs and the Navy. The song is delivered New Orleans style: Continue reading
I was asked to make a cover image for the Telepathy collection, and I did.
That alone is interesting, because the word “telepathy” has accumulated a lot of baggage over the years. Rays shooting out of foreheads. Secret powers. Parlor tricks. CIA files. Comic books. Tin-foil hats. You know the drill. Continue reading
Once again, I’m spending the night going through many of my earlier songs and the later ones, too, in order to organize them so I can DEMO them to you at our zoom meetings.
That’s my whole plan. Continue reading
I spent the entire time searching and reviewing songs created over the past year or so. I’ll play a selection of them this morning at our zoom meeting. Continue reading
You wondering why I’ve written yet another song called “Tantrum”?
Okay, I’ll tell you what happened.
I wanted an example of a good song that had been made before I understood what I know now about how Suno works, how to work the style sheet and the lyric sheet effects (call and response, etc.) and how to get specific results from it, so I could show how to re-work a good song into a better one. Continue reading
The old three r’s were “reading, writing and ‘rithmatic, clearly taking advantage of the general ignorance that accepted those as “the three r’s”.
“Now you’re right on the spine of it,” I said to myself this morning. Hey. This is a very strong line of thought, and it’s older than literacy itself. My “new three R’s” — rhythm, rhyme and repetition — are not just poetic tools. They are memory technologies.
And in the hundreds of thousands of years before writing, accurately retelling a story was the whole of civilization, period.
Thinking shamanically is exactly the right move here. I’ll explain: Continue reading
This is exactly the right way to come at Suno. Remember, you’re not “making songs,” you’re building demonstration vehicles for your unique lyrics, lyrics that YOU wrote! Continue reading
I wrote this blog in 2017. I’m posting it again with some minor updates, because it clearly needs repeating.
I have no voice. It doesn’t bother me, but it’s quite noticeable. Never negotiate with illusions. Continue reading
Verse 1 / Refrain
I’m not just okay, I’m not feeling fine
I’m just in a six–seven state of mind
Not falling apart, not crossing lines
Just standing here in the in-between time Continue reading