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Mom and Dad

Jason Ward - Guitar, vocals, accompaniment.
Robo Carrillo - Drums, Bells, and whistles. 
Randy Lo Gudice - Bass Guitar

Hole Through Me

Plastic Fruit

Sometimes the internet and the life we live on it feels like a simulation. But then I go someplace and I see people from the internet and they're real. I'm privileged in that respect in someways. But that detachment from a community while being in one can be strange and lonely but also where we find community and connection. We exist in contradiction. It is both why we keep coming back to the internet and why we meet such hateful bastards on it at the same time.

A Kool-Aid Cult Revival

While it doesn't pop up until the seventh track on the album, The Kool-Aid Cult Revival is me being peak Kylo Ren about all of this. Nostalgia is good but it can also be so rotten. It keeps us looking backward while we move forward and walk directly into a pole. We get knocked down, and then continue to look backward to just do it again and again.

Waiting watching Star Wars feeling tired and alone
Trying to be the Kool-Aid Man that calls you on the phone
I find it funny that we often look backward nostalgically about something like Kool-Aid and being pushed in a shopping cart. But sometimes never think about how a cult poisoned itself with flavored powdered drinks and those shopping carts become a different kind of prison later in life. I've been called a cult leader too many times to count by angry weirdos and one time a real witch told me I was Jim Jones reincarnated (and she liked me it wasn't a dig). Somewhere in that nostalgia there's the quest for utopia but it has mostly been a dystopian future I've experienced in all of this.

You're So Right You're Wrong

On this record, I also wrote SJW and Culture Vulture about the far right and the far left on the internet in the aftermath of The Last Jedi. Trust me, I don't believe centrism is the answer. I've seen the worst in humanity on the internet from both sides now. Deep in my core, after the last year, I've tilted more towards being a misanthropic luddite than anything. Revenge of the Sith's crawl proclaimed there's "heroes on both sides." This year I've truly seen monsters on both sides with no boundaries. This record and these songs are a "fuck you" to the opportunistic hateful mobs that grace the internet with their angry little digits relishing in their confirmation biases. Maybe they feel this is also just a simulation too and it's not real? I hope so because at least there's an explanation for their evil vitriol. Either way, fuck them.

Thanks for Checking it out!

We did think it would be funny to hide a spoiler in the album. But I think we might have done too good a job at it. so I don't know if I suggest l looking for it. But there might be one or two. Especially if they pan out. I'll tell you after The Rise of Skywalker hits.

Also, Randy plays bass on this record when he wasn't hosting the podcast. But he also plays a badass guitar solo on "Kool-Aid." I'm really proud of the work Randy and Chris did on the record. I think it is pretty good for a host and a producer who moonlight as musicians.

I made it cheap and tried to keep it cheap!

I priced the record at the lowest price possible. Making the record helped me. Maybe listening to it if you know what I'm on about will help you. If you can't afford it, I'll give it to you. Hopefully you can stream it and if you like it, and please share it. I'm just grateful for anyone that would want to listen to my self indulgent art rock. We also might play a show at Star Wars Celebration when we do the MakingStarWars.net podcast party next year and if you enjoy the record, we'll make sure to.

Jason Ward - Guitar, Keyboard, vocals

Randy Lo Gudice - Bass guitar, additional guitars on Kool-Aid

Christopher Lee Carrillo - Drums

Produced by Fourtracula and The Sexual Intellectuals.

I Found You Out!

Light of the Day

New Depression

A Kool-Aid Cult Revival

Culture Vultures

Automaton

Masokissed

Black on Neon

Fourtracula is the place Jason Ward carved out for himself to make music and art with his comrades and fellow accomplices.

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