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https://absentine.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-deadlands I have struggled increasingly with executive dysfunction. Between 2020 and 2023, I really felt unable to get around to recording this album, despite not struggling to write songs. It's cruel to sum up such frustrating impotence in a quick sentence, but I'm writing about the actual output: after a constipated trickle of tracking across the years, I eventually unlocked the ability to record in a large batch of focus in November 2023, amassing all my Annual Leave, with material I'd written across years prior. 1. Deadland melody/"The Haunt" This melody came to me while wandering literal rubble of Hanley. It was an era close to pandemic restrictions, but either way, that's what my home city is now. I know I am privileged compared to many other countries and localities, but I have witnessed our apocalypse. It was with this melody that the album gained identity, and form. Pretentious subtitle is a result of Deadla...

 I make a lot of stuff and don't have a lot of audience. Here's some stuff from this year that's maybe even worth attention. Cut down on video work this year; only published 150. You don't have to catch all of them. We're All Going To Abilene! I swear this could be on Sesame Street. And the Abilene Paradox ought to be known by more people. The papercraft puppet video went better than I expected. The character illustrations are based on those from the first documentary version of The Abilene Paradox, which is a hoot. But so is this. Gouverneur Morris Maybe a different founding father deserved an excruciating rap musical. This is more clever than it is enjoyable, but you're used to that. Absentine stuff I almost finished an album this year, but didn't quite manage and instead made seven albums (see below). I was working on ideas from the last few years, but newer ideas eclipsed them and the whole project went outta whack. Work-in-progress currently lingers her...

 I may have written this stuff up before but I stay self-involved for lack of others' involvement. Paper Truth - Severs - album was 24th of December 2014 Today is a day we describe the same way, except with exactly 10 more years. This is why we indulge me about it. By my then-standards, I lost my musical zeal around 2012 & have never since picked back up in production speed. Until I did all those songs without any production. My self-standards don't matter & I've written loads really, but when that BR-600 console broke (just its pressure pads; they'd sometimes work if you stabbed them hard but decreasingly so & they were essential to navigation), I couldn't get to successful grips with other machines. I've since bought a pristine BR-600 and... barely used it. Maybe if I have some particular lo-fi project or maybe I'm past it. I still had music ambition & it surfaced a bit throughout 2013 & 2014, in a difficult, song-by-song way. I roughly...

Facebook is falling apart. I had used my Facebook music page for textual content, but it's been deleted and I can't find how to recover it. An oldskool blog is the best option left for text. Writings go here.