My Music
(posted here and on Facebook)
I just wanted to drop a note that I'm 99% done with an antiwar music project called "This Machine Kills Apathy". It consists of an album of 10 songs, a video for each song and a group of companion essays.
The music has been finished and posted for about three weeks now. It's available for streaming and free download on my purevolume page. My favorite tracks are "Finally Normal" and "These Colors Can't Walk (B version)".
I'm almost done with the videos and have put most of them up on YouTube. Each one consists of pages of lyrics interspersed with documentary footage. My favorites so far are SoCal November and Feels Like I'm Fixin to Die Rag. I'll post the last couple when I finish polishing them, which should be this week.
I also wrote about five essays centering on the album's three main themes (apathy, materialism and war). I'll be posting them on Lose the Label and Daily Kos over the next month or so, in addition to a commentary for each song.
I think of this project as the beginning of a new chapter in my life. My goal is to completely integrate my writing, music and activism and hopefully scrape together a conscience friendly living. Before, I'd more or less kept them separate, and often found myself feeling uncomfortable and missing too many opportunities. It follows that one of my biggest goals with the album is to steer visitors to Lose the Label, which I hope will someday become a bustling center of ideas and activism.
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