I layered Kings Kaleidoscope samples on top of an old jingle of mine. The jingle represents a special period of my life, in large part because I wrote it around the time I fell in love with Kings Kaleidoscope. So it felt so fitting to put those very sounds in an already nostalgic track.
Kazoo from "A Little Bit of Faith", nahhs from "Backwards", and horn hits.

Beautiful Body

Lau-monade Instrumental

Read it here:
https://issuu.com/calpolyaletheia/docs/aleitheia_issue4

Original essay proposal:

"Citra is a college age woman who is far below average academically and is a huge loner in class. But with her friends, she is the life of the party. After a couple days of despising her tough classes and finding too much comfort in her friends, one day she blacks out from drinking and is rushed to the emergency room. A few weeks later, she realizes some friends she idolized were fake despite appearing friendly. She further realizes that strangers/staff in the hospital--and even random classmates--really cared about her despite initially appearing closed off.

She reaches an epiphany: the way she perceives things will often be far from the truth if she lets her emotions or mental fallacies get in the way; thus an intersection of what she thinks, feels, and values must be used to find the truth, and the truth applied to relationships results in empathy.

Epilogue: Citra wakes up from another blackout, alone. Whereas the first blackout, she was saved by her loving friend, this time she was saved by.......? Was she attempting to take her own life by drinking so irresponsibly? She is racked with guilt, and comes face to face with long-running self-hatred that she cannot even put into words. Eventually she remembers the meaning of her name "Citra": an artist's image. She reflects on what kind of Artist made an image like her, capturing the short story's theme verse which a friend once referred her to: Ephesians 2:10."

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