Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., giving a sermon titled 'But if Not' at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia in November, 1967
Source: https://archive.org/details/MlkButIfNot

I took a portion of the sermon and put it to music as a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr for MLK day.  Shout out to my brother from another mother Casey aka "The Caveman" aka "The Mookie Wilson" aka "The Shaguar" for doing background vocals.  We miss you Dr King♡

Photo taken from: http://www.jsvu.nl/files/nljsvu/image/martin_luther_king.jpg

But If Not (MLK Day Tribute)

Produced & Mixed by Mikey Corenthal
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion in Portland, OR
Kid Nomad: My-key Corenthal & Kyle Meancloud Rosse
Special thanks to: Casey “The Mookie Wilson,” Paulo “The Redwood,” Jacob “Monster Melodious,” Mike “Pizza,” and Thomas “Calculus Man” 
Artwork by Mikey Corenthal and Dottie Taub
Lyrics:
We sat cross-legged and went around the circle
answering the question:

	"If you could have a superpower
	what would it be?"

No one liked these team-building exercises,
everyone always lied.

Malcolm wanted 
to become invisible.

Christina wanted 
to fly.

The same 
boring shit.

Except when it was Dylan's turn
he leaned forward and said, "I want to be able 
to make intangible things tangible."

Dylan looked down 
at his hands.

"So then I could touch intangible things and hold them
in my hands," he said.
"Like music, if I could make music tangible 
I would hold it in my trembling hands like this
and I would kiss it.  I'd kiss music 
because it has gotten me through 
some really tough shit.

And hope, if I could make hope tangible, 
it would be this little tiny thing that you can barely see, 
like a mouse's tear.  Do you think mice 
cry tears?  But hope would be 
this little tiny thing and I would place it 
in my pocket because a Colonel
who survived the Thousand Days' War
once told me 'you can't eat hope, 
but it can sustain you.'

And memories, I would try 
to cradle memories in my arms like a baby, 
but they would weigh much too much for me to lift off the ground, 
because memories are heavy.  They're the heaviest things
on earth, sometimes even heavier than the earth itself.  
And memories would fall through my arms like all the things
I've never wanted to lose.

Love, love would be a virus 
you don't need a microscope 
to see.

Happiness would be someone I could take home
to meet my mother.  I could take happiness on a date
to the movies, put my arm around her, and whisper
into her ear that 'the world wouldn't be the same
without you.'"

Dylan's hands 
were shaking.

"And solitude,
solitude would be a man
with a hurricane inside his head
sitting in a room
alone 
hunched over a computer
at 1:37 am
as the light-bulb hums 
inaudible melodies
pretending he knows 
how to end 
a poem."

Summer Camp For Troubled Youth

My father was drunk 
the night I was born
and he stumbled into the hospital
with bloodshot eyes
and whiskey on his breath
and he shouted to the nurses
"please tell my son to read books,"
before he disappeared 
into the night
forever.

Stupid fucking father,
don't you know that reading
is a lonely business?
That Shakespeare 
can't kiss you goodnight?
That books might give you ideas,
stories, an underdog's chance, 
but they don't protest
when they're burned?

Books

Song- Written, Produced, Mixed by Kid Nomad
Drums- Kyle Rosse
Drums recorded at Super Secret Studios
Mastered by Gus Elg

music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP0BFCKAQdU

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Eggs over ez

Song: Produced by Kid Nomad & Arella Rocket

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track mixed by Kid Nomad
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Art School Dropout (feat. Natty Isabell)

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Amerika, pt. 1

Opening samples from Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Che Guevarra, Martin Luther King Jr, Nina Simone

All My Heroes Have Mugshots

This still doesn't feel real to me (feat. Frank/ie Consent)

"monster movie all the time" is a phrase the main character says in Sherman Alexie's short story 'Cry Cry Cry'

Monster Movie All The Time

Lunar King

Same shit, different day
Elaine broke her heart again
Jerry meet me at the diner got a story for you man
I'm not bitter, I'm just lonely
I'm not selfish, I'm just sad

Pops calls me on the phone
asks me when I'm coming home
I'm fucking forty-years-old, doing what I'm told
lord of the losers, romantic schmoozer,
body like buddha, hopeless suitor
I'm not worried, I'm just careful
I'm not angry, I'm just regretful

didn't mean to say the things I said,
didn't mean to do the things I did,
all I want is true love
all I want is true love

The Church of George Costanza

drums-kyle rosse
additional vocals- natty isabell
drums recorded at super secret studios
mastered by gus elg

jonny you're a rodeo, a nonstop rock & roll show
you're the kid who made it out, the car crash who this songs about
jonny he's a lullaby, a quiet kid with stars for eyes
some days he just lays in bed and when he's angry he sees red.

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