My world is perfect
My body's perfect
my life is perfect

My girl is perfect
Her body's perfect
Her life is perfect
She is perfect

Inspired by so many FaceBook posts

Perfect World

She Screams
Bad Dreams
Fight Bears
Night Terrors

She dreams
Bad dreams
Flights of stairs
Broken chairs

Alligators in the ocean
Coyotes, Wolves
In slow motion

In the streets
Kicking sheets

Night Terrors

My girl asked me to write some Country Songs. I asked "Which Country?"

Blue Door

Elaine

Sketch for RPM Challenge 2023

Created this for a jam session with my friend Jackson. His dad’s an architect.

The Architect

Sketch for RPM Challenge 2023

It was a rough day. I hit my head several times in low doorways and worried that next I would cut my fingers off. No fingers were lost in this production.

Hit My Head And Cut Off My Fingers

Sketch for RPM Challenge 2023

Starts out rather manic, but I think it evolved into something beautiful.

Your Delicate Feelings

Sketch for RPM Challenge 2023

When you fall in love with someone that falls into the sea.

Colassal Heart Plunged Beneath The Waves

Sunday's Not The Same

Composition created for a video performance:

https://youtu.be/_cAduHLNM6g

Burial

Sketch for RPM Challenge 2023

Reflecting on a bitter, cold moment.

Sweep The Snow Off The Stoop

Track created for the 2024 RPM Challenge

THE CHICKENS
THE WATER
THE FOOD
THE EGGS

COCKADOODLE DOO  
COCKADOODLE DOO  

THE CHICKENS
THE WATER
THE FOOD
THE EGGS

COCKADOODLE DOO  
COCKADOODLE DOO

(Did you see the mouse? I’m cold and wet! Girls! Finally! I just flushed them out. I aint touching them. Watch this. That's the new thing. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9....TEN! All right y'all)

What's Going On Inside Her Head?

THE CHICKENS

Working on a track with vocals that are backwards and forwards and indistinguishable in any direction. Words Reversed, Misread, Misheard, Misspoken, Misinterpreted, Mistaken.

WHAT IF THE THERN?

IT’S NOT SOMETHING
THAT I EVER WANTED TO SEE
NO, IT’S NOTHING
THAT I’D WISH ON ANYBODY

THE ONES THAT RAISED ME
THE ONES THAT DISCIPLINED ME
THE ONES THAT LOVED ME
THEY’RE DYING RIGHT BEFORE ME

WATCHING YOUR PARENTS DIE

COULD
YOU 
POSSIBLY
BE MAKING
A MISS
DIAGNOSIS?

YOU COULD BE WRONG
YOU COULD BE RIGHT
YOU KEEP ME UP ALL  NIGHT

YOU COULD BE RIGHT 
YOU COULD BE WRONG

Miss Diagnosis

IT’S WAY TOO LOUD 
JUST GET ME OUTTA HERE
I’LL DO DO ANYTHING, MAN
JUST GET ME OUTTA HERE


DON’T MOVE A MUSCLE, BRO
DON’T BLINK YOUR EYES
DON’T BREATH AND DO NOT SWALLOW
DON’T MESS (UP) THESE MRI’S


 I’M ALRIGHT X 8

AM ARE EYE?

(revision of the previous version)

COULD
YOU 
POSSIBLY
BE MAKING
A MISS
DIAGNOSIS?

YOU COULD BE WRONG
YOU COULD BE RIGHT
YOU KEEP ME UP ALL  NIGHT

Jason's Dog

WALKED IN THE ROOM
A SONIC BOOM
AN AMBULANCE 
EMERGENCY ROOM

THE KIDS ARE SCARED
WE’RE UNPREPARED
YOU TRY TO SPEAK
BUT YOU’RE IMPARED

IT’S DIFFICULT
I CAN’T EXPLAIN
I KNOW THE THOUGHTS
INSIDE YOUR BRAIN

AND EVEN IF YOU CAN’T EXPRESS
I UNDERSTAND 
YOUR NO 
MEANS YES

I KNOW THAT 
YOU KNOW THAT 
I KNOW THAT 
YOU KNOW THAT 
I KNOW 
YOU KNOW

Sonic Boom

I WATCHED 
YOU SWIM
I THOUGHT
YOU SANK

SO FAR AWAY
I DREW A BLANK

I DOVE SO DEEP
YOU WERE NOT THERE
I WISH YOU WERE
I WAITED THERE

HOLD MY BREATH
FOR A LONG TIME
AM I BLACKING OUT

WAIT FOR YOU
RAN OUT OF TIME
AND I’M BLACKING OUT

MEET YOU AT THE BOTTOM

Sinking To The Bottom

LITTLE
OLD
SCRUFFY
CAIRN
TERRIER
GENTLE
LOYAL
SLEEPING
TEARS
MISSED

IT TOOK TWO MINUTES

Room 316

My first grader brought this story home from school one day. It was an anonymous story, so I can't credit the author. I didn't change a word as it was perfect in it's original form.

I played bass with my RAT pedal.

Enjoy

Bear's Lunch

Samuel was a Blacksmith. His wife Nancy died soon after their 11th child. I can only imagine that Myram, his second wife was probably mostly concerned about the 11 kids being taken care of than being his wife. 

Morse Code was invented while Nancy was alive, so I imagined that Sam tried to use this new technology to reach his dead wife. Listen for his message to her.

I hope you understand
You left us so alone
A busy working man
With 11 kids in a 1 room home

A lovely friend of mine
I think you knew her, dear.
She fed the kids
And she sent them to school
In clean clothes,
On time,
And she slept near

He’s a strong man
With a sun tan
And a sweating hand
A big hammer that goes Bam Bam!!

Hammer!
Nail!
Horse Shoe!
Pail!

Blacksmith

My good friend Particle Dots offered this incredible song for the album and I was so inspired by it, that I immediately started writing the song about Katy and I - The Artists. He wrote all the beautiful parts, I added guitars, vocals and the noisy parts that sound the worst.

Bob (Me) and Katy

I STARTED PLANNING
YOUR ENTIRE LIFE
LONG BEFORE
I KNEW YOU’D BE MY WIFE

“WE’LL BE TOGETHER
DOING EVERYTHING”
IS WHAT I TOLD MYSELF
BEFORE I BOUGHT YOUR RING

ONLY TIME WILL TELL
THAT WE WERE RIGHT
WHEN YOU KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME
EVERY SINGLE NIGHT
BEFORE I TURN OUT THE LIGHT

I WANNA PAINT YOUR PORTRAIT
CUZ I LOVE YOUR ACE
AND I WANNA HAVE YOUR PICTURES
ALL OVER THE PLACE
I WANNA SEE YOUR FACE...

YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL FACE!!

ONLY TIME WILL TELL
THAT WE WERE RIGHT
WHEN YOU KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME....

The Artists

John and Arah left Baltimore, MD and settled on the banks of Twenty Mile Creek in unexplored Virginia ca. 1800. 

You left your home
But you brought your nose
You took your wife and your kids
And your horse and your clothes

Venturing out 
Into the Great Unknown
With your King James bible
And an old iPhone

“Are we there yet dad?”
I heard the young one say
“Another mountain to pass,
Another month and a day”

“This looks like the place
Where I wanna spend my life,
The banks of 20 Mile Creek
Amongst the wild, wildlife”

"When they find my bones
With my teeth in my jaw
Hope it’s another pioneer
Who needs my axe and my saw"

Pioneer

I've been working on a story on and off for 3 years. I liked the concept, but it just didn't do what I hoped it would in storybook form. One day, Particle Dots asked if I was going to participate in the 2017 RPM Challenge, and immediately I knew that I would, whether I finished in time or not. I decided to treat my storybook idea as a song, and possibly an album. I knew it would help the rhythm of the lyrics and in fact it did improve the structure, and as I worked on it, it became an album. Thanks to a few MJ friends for the inspiration and the help on the songs to follow.

Steel Grip

Boy With A Mechanical Arm

Marky Mashed Potato

First time I've ever used a computer voice (Daniel) to sing (and Bruce for back up vocals). I tried and tried to sing and I couldn't stand what I did, so I asked Daniel. 

If you hate it, "I Apologize".

I APOLOGIZE

RPM 2020 - An album dedicated to Michael Marquesen. A friend we lost but will forever be entangled with. Hope to see you in the after life.

Installation Soundtrack for Katyraven Hernandez Dorsey's "Portals Unseen" exhibition.

DISAPPEAR/REAPPEAR (RPM 2020)

DISAPPEAR

ENTANGLED INTRO

Because one of my favorite female vocalist/songwriter Estella Ramirez posted a collaboration we did with Michael Marquesen, I'm returning the favor. The three of us worked so well together on this track in 2007.

Macjams Collabs

They Never Fell In Love

This is the first track (maybe the sketch) of my attempt at the RPM Challenge 2021

Five Extra Arms

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