- I’m about to dig hard into a couple songs I’ve been working on. One for the 50th Black Lantern Music release, which should be a pretty cool thing when all is said and done. The other for my wedding: a song I wrote a while ago for who turned out to be my future wife. I had never written a song for a girl before, and this one turned out sounding pretty special. It’s simple and catchy, the way a love song should be.
- Also I think I’m getting the concept down for my next LP, but who knows when it’ll be finished. Hopefully by the end of the year. I want to tell a story with an album. Cut into three parts, the way dramatic structure is. Three acts. I’m not only going to use these devices for the story, I’m also going to use them musically as well if I can. The introduction of characters (sounds/instruments), the first turning point, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, etc. I’m going to — I think — break up the album very literally into three parts: 3 long tracks clocking in around 20 minutes a piece (give or take), with “Parts” embedded into each track and also listed in the track-listing. Step two is what setting to tell such a story in, that could take time. I’m sure this has all been done before by someone somewhere.
- I got my Polica vinyl in the mail yesterday. I just downloaded the digital copy it came with (which really is something everyone should do for people willing to buy brand new vinyl) and am running through the album for the first time right now. It’s darker than I thought it would be, considering what I’d heard of it. Mostly the second to last track “Wandering Star”. Which is a patient reflection on troubling times. But dang songs like “Violent Games” bring the hammer. Cover:
- This news came out a couple days ago, but is still worth mentioning. It has, of course, massive implications in terms of global hunger and environmental protection. Scientists have successfully created beef in a lab.
“Speakers said they aim to develop such “meat” products for mass consumption to reduce the environmental and health costs of conventional food production.
Conventional meat and dairy production requires more land, water, plants and disposal of waste products than almost all other human foods, they said.
The global demand for meat is expected to rise by 60 percent by 2050, said American scientist Nicholas Genovese, who organized the symposium.”
-Sonny
