yeah. i'm taking a break to do something a little simpler.

this could very well go down like a lead balloon, but i think it's kind of necessary right now.

if i'm not making people angry, i'm not doing this right. this recent wave of inoffensive, vanilla folk makes no sense to me. it's fucking elevator music. and it's the antithesis of what folk music is.

this is going to be electric folk, i don't really "do folk", but it's in intent a folk tune, and going to come with a bit of a divisive message. i'm pretty sure i'm right. even if i'm not, hopefully it makes people think a little....

it's going to be a little weird, though, because i can't number a 2015 release from 2002. so, it's going to be unavailable for sale. for a long time. maybe it's better that way.

i've been putting aside new ideas. i mean, i have several i've thought up since i moved down here, but they've been put in sequence. this is ultimately going to be put in sequence, too, in the sense that it's going to be shelved. but it's going to become irrelevant if i wait two, three years to do it.

i've been thinking recently that, when i get over this 2002 hump, the music moving forward is likely to be more conceptual. i'm kind of out of my instrumental rock phase, in the sense that i think i'm coming up on completing everything i could do in the genre - i've made all the statements i want to make. which is tied into the sense of closure i'm attaching to the end of the discography. i expect releases dated after 2006 to be almost entirely conceptual. and releases dated after 2013 to actually be mostly literary.

i think this is an intersection that all modern musicians get to in their lives because the nature of modern music is so deeply juvenile. the last few generations have been struggling with this as they've entered their mid 30s, and especially into their 40s. i have the benefit of learning from those errors a little and getting out in front of it. there's no use in hanging on to the past. you will suck if you try that. you must grow up..

there's a long way to go before that's relevant. right now i'm just focusing on this track as a throwaway. i'd expect it will eventually end up in a single dated to february, 2015. but i can't tell if it's inri070, inri110 or anywhere else in between there.