insufferable noise, affordably priced

to love the anxious blood the mad child inspires:

each of these tracks were musical threads that i followed to some point of stagnation. one of them was revisited with added tracks (the acoustic guitar on bomber pilot).

the tracks are guileless in that i certainly wanted to keep going with all of them but somehow could not.

each of them (but one) maps a wordless space during one man's mid-30s -- for me a time marked by the ceaseless attrition of both ideals and ambitions and the essential, improvisatory preludes to their surrender.

the seeds converse, in contrast, is a simple ballad reflecting my devotion to the truest and most perfect companion a person might know.

in any case, time to push these cowbirds out of the nest.

i'm hoping that should they hit the concrete instead of soaring they'll wake up clumsy with freedom and sing a brittle and bittersweet song for Cliff and Fernando Jr.

useless trivia:

Nights and weekends, 2003-2005. Alone in the back room, thinking of Don Bolles and Scientology and my late friend Chris Bergen.

Boat of Ra, Ulysses, and Transmission were conceived while on the road with bthoom sometime between '93 and '96.

Erik Rogan was kind enough to add a drum performance to Slow Electron and Aaron Stewart plays some bass on Ulysses.

The first verse of the track "Boat of Ra" was lifted wholesale without permission from the poem "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra" by poet/writer/activist/lunatic Ishmael Reed. He is notoriously cranky and will probably at the least have someone issue a cease and desist (or perhaps track me down and punch me about the face and neck). And of course he's welcome to the proceeds (currently totaling around $2.00) from my riff on his quite brilliant work.