We can change this game... We can rearrange 
It don't have to be so crazy... It's don't have to be so lame
It's all about the rules... it's all about the ways
What's now is an illusion... we're living in a haze

Populated by powerful people who set up the system to serve their needs
Don't really care or think about the rest of us,  feeling pretty good while others bleed

If we just change the rules of the game NOTHIN need be the same 
Ya see we were in the middle of the great grab 
We're in the middle and we've been had
We're in the middle of the great grab
To few have it all and we've been had

In the name of economics and bold face lies, free trade rape aid and ties that bind enslaved in a fossil fuel extraction machine losing touch with all that's human

It's all in the rules they've set up you see to keep everyone as a slave you and me cloaked in the works free market and invisible hands that bind us to their poisons on every land, cram it in our ears with iPods now phones keep us I engaged within the system, alone; unable to see Mann ipu lated we be,  feelin lost out of control adrift in history

Well it ain't so; want you to know
Don't have to be... wake up and see

Change The Rules to Save our World!

Visions of the future nowadays are bad/spiraling dystopian, losing all we had
watching all the movies and futures on TV... bringing them to life and what they say will be...
while the Sun shines above beckoning attention...It made the fossil fuels and now offers a new direction
We now have the tools to begin shifting the way towards magical tomorrows better than today....
Oh, the rays of hope are falling all around us
Rays of Hope...the gift that keeps on giving
Rays of Hope to make the future run
Rays of Hope Enough for everyone
connecting with the engines that enables life to grow
cutting out the deadly carbon toxics that we know
harvesting the planetary energy that lives
the oceans, plants and winds and rays and all that nature gives
leveraging a future, harnessing the cosmic spirit
molecules of majesty can save us from a travesty
incorporating light rays falling freely right into our grasp
innovating changing how we function so we last
Oh, the rays of hope are falling all around us
Rays of Hope...the gift that keeps on giving
Rays of Hope to make the future run
Rays of hope, enough for everyone!
harnessing the natural systems smart grids cars and batteries
rooftop heating photovoltaic with some land and offshore wind machines..
The undeveloped dying oceans beckoning us all with OTEC cities brimming fishys
all we gotta do is shift the gears and realize
the vision can materialize
harmony it's majesty connections, our true destiny
the choices are so clear live in light or die in dark oil fear
the time is now, the windows open
earth is screaming the sun has spoken
the best of all humanity
are working out the kinks and every possibility
Oh, the rays of hope falling all around us
The Rays of Hope... gifts that keeps on giving
rays of hope...there's enough for everyone
The rays of hope just grasp them
or we are done...











tying it together the give and take of natural cycles 



Rays of Hope

A 30 minute idea created with Airwave's new patch set for Ominsphere 2, the first Trance package I've ever played with... Wrote 6 songs in one evening!  Love Airwave!!!

Gravity of the Situation  (Rough draft)

Trying out a  new "modeled" guitar, no samples!  Decided gotta do a country song so just pressed record and out squirted this... 

Country Revolt!  Trying the new GS-2 guitar by AAS

I wrote this the night my brother died... I was driven... felt like I couldn't stop and oh we are soooo connected in soooo many ways we don't understand yet... and I know his essense was saying goodbye that night...

COP21: It's all about The Engine of Life

 Thanks to Peterintheforest who inspired this song... 
The age of humans might come to an end...in it's vast industrial form.
The age of people might not be too long as we blunder beyond the norm

The anthropocene...The anthropocene...it's all out of balance
in endless growth and social dysfunction
The anthropocene...the will to dominate nature, in an evolutionary wrong turn in the storm...
of a flawed human nature.... 

The age of humans might come to an end real soon
The age of humans might end too soon...

Repeat in key of C  flawed human nature flawed human nature....

what chu gonna do? gonna sit around, whinin' cryin? what chu gonna do? drink and smoke until your fryin'? what chu gonna do bout all the creatures dyin... it's all because of you 
so rectify it...take responsibility...it's your moment to get free...yea!

We don't have to go out this way
We don't want to all the children to say
we can stop this... we started it now save the day...
 If going extinct sound like we're  “fucked,”
some subset of humans has really fucked a lot of other species along with us.
don't have to go out this way...
we don't want the children to cry we don't want our birds not to fly
we don't want all the frogs and lizards and bugs to disappear
we don't want all the fishes in the sea to go away...
we gotta stop this madness, stop it today
We can do it we can do it we can do it now do it!


The Age of Humans (The Anthropocene)

You just go about your day, in a sea of denial.... when there's so little time... to save ourselves
“Extreme weather conditions continue to afflict wide swaths of the planet...storms are stalling over large parts of the country, dumping huge amounts of  floods...    and our main stream media continues to go, “blah blah blah blah blah....” 

It's an Arctic Emergency, comin' down
the Jet Stream's stalling 
change all around
the weather's turned crazy
as the ice disappears
destabilizing forces
beyond our worst fears

It's an Arctic Emergency
Oh, I'm sayin' it now! 
We've got an Arctic Emergency
gotta Stop it, somehow...

we got methane bubbling up from the ocean's arctic floor
the tundra's thawing, releasing a whole lot more...
And this weather you think is bad is gonna get worse...
Our carbon pollutions a horrible curse
it'll last for thousands of years
cause global endless tears
our future's in jeopardy
slam on the breaks
gotta shift the gears...
we gotta arctic emergency
we gotta arctic emergency

We gotta make big changes...oh yea...
Before the world rearranges...
Right in front of our eyes...
Because it's a
Arctic Emergency
And it's terminally sad
No matter how much money you got
you can't hide from the bad
cause there's no where to go
there's nothin' you can do
when the rains stop for decades
and the ocean dies too
Arctic Emergency...

Well, tell me... there's just a whole bunch of data here yes, I'm just gonna rattle off all the statistics... come on, can you give me some more statistics?  I mean, how many statistics do you need people before you wake up and think, ah scheeeeeze we gotta big frackin' problem around here...
Arctic emergency, vamp out

Arctic Emergency!!!

Well I see a new world comin'
gotta change most everything
shut down the coal mines and frakin' fields
Alasken oil drillin's so insane...

Cause the sun's up above
and we're runnin' out of time...
gotta stop this madness, slam on the brakes, shift the gears
still gotta a little time.......

Well the planet... she's now talkin'
all the heat and messed up crazy weather
she's tellin' us she's bout had enough and
so we'd better get it together... 

Cause the sun's up above
and the ocean's all around
and the answers await our cultivation

A New World, it's a Comin!

I received this lovely creature a few hours ago; just layed down a quick rough acoustic guitar/ambient bed and, fired up Falcon and Bohemian Violin and began playing... about an hour start to finish... one take...no mixing, no overdubs... just a little Omni multi and my new love... humanity will make it with such magical creatures evolving.  Thank you, Ondrej Pochyly   you've given me a the most wonderful xmas experience ever...

I worried about being a bit sad coming up to Xmas... living alone has it's moments... but that very week I happened to click on a thread about this new AI violin effort, found myself hooked into a rather small community of folk involved in this endevour and befor you know it all of our dreams were realized Xmas eve, with the global delivery of this creation to our fingertips... there were maybe 50 people, world wide, all playing this amazing creation, all of us going insane with joy and amazement... as nothing has EVER existed that can be played by mere mortals like this new creation.  I feel so honored and privileged to be alive at this moment in our species development!

First Moments With A Lovely New Spirit

The Oceans are the Lungs of the Eaarth! By using fossil fuels, we are heating the ocean to the point where we'll be killing the very phytoplankton that provide most of the oxygen animals need to survive. We must shift to renewables asap. This is no longer something we can ignore... so I'm writing a song about it... Final words below: (not yet totally in song)

Lungs of the Eaarth ((final words not yet added to song):

As the planet came alive, phytoplankton paved the way
for all the animals... and all the humans to come
oceans plants flooded the eaarth with oxygen... and what evolved is everything we need...everything we have... So why... why are we destroying our planetary web of life?

The oceans gave us most of what we've breathed through history 
and the rest comes from each plant and tree and leaf from sea to sea
The life force of the planet... if it goes, we're history
The worms below the phytoplankton things we never see...things we'll never see...

Lungs of the Eaarth...

Give us Birth 
Give us Flight
Give us Hope
Give us Life

Lungs of the Eaarth

Through the magic of nature It all started in the Sea
plants began to use the solar energy that's offered for free
they started turning carbon into all the oxygen we see
creating a different world, one for you and me

Lungs of the Eaarth.....

The plants give us oxygen, we give back CO2
Without their participation... we're through

Lungs of the Eaarth 
Everyone, every creature... it's all over if we kill
the Lungs of the Eaarth

Lungs of the Eaarth (short; draft idea)

Music has been hard to write lately... what we are doing is overwhelmingly insane...nothing makes sense...so much opportunity and we spend our time jacking off about things like Trump while going over our own climate cliff... A little bit of depression in song...  words??? Oh yea:

Scientific discipline rigorous controls
Try to define the variables...so everybody knows
Looking at the data the highs & the lows
There's so much of it everywhere & mostly it shows
We are a failed experiment...Gone wide of the mark
An over zealous plunderer...Working in the dark
The information's everywhere...But mostly we ignore
Consuming tomorrow...the future never more
Oh we're a failed experiment...A bad picture show...
Cancerous infecting all that we know
The bottom line is artificial synthesized and fantasized
The wacked out socialized disfunction all anesthetized      
We are a part of the whole the wondrous and magical lies
Fracturing our living space...So much as we run the race
Too complex We cannot face... stuck in so many boxes
Others make to drain away the chances to become a part of
What beckons every day
A failed experiment...cascading talking with us every creature that has come to be
A Failed experiment...It's so obvious why can't We see?
A failed experiment   Just a blot of history
A failed experiment   seems to be our destiny...

Failed Experiment Mix 3.3.2016

I've spent much of my life trying to figure it all out... and the focus for decades has been... wtf are we doing?  where are we going? I've become a lens, a projector... there are many of us out there... trying to defend the future...

I'm A Projector 5 4 10 2016 working draft

Things are coming unglued while we twiddle and twaddle important moments away... simultaneously, opportunities to change EVERYTHING are opening up... will we see? will we do? This IS the moment that will determine EVERYTHING!

Hells Breakin Loose!

climate change.... melting tundra... liberating long frozen microbes... like anthrax and who the fuck knows what else... we are playing with fire, humans!  Get off fossils NOW... save our future...


Anthrax Is Comin'

Every day we're sold bullshit from the MSM; untruths, propaganda... leading us to consume, heat the world, and make it impossible for humanity to survive.  Not one of us is gonna get out of this alive unless we radically shift directions yet that's not being allowed.  Why?  What's really going on? Are corporations just a manipulation vehicle? Are we just manipulated sheeple in an earthly feedlot?

So Much MisInformation

So Much MisInformation Ozoned

sit on your butt texting away as the planetary system we depend on collapses?  Really?  Stupid... up in Idaho these days, gaining a fresh perspective.  Will be wrapping up my life in California this year, migrating north, where my family came from... Get it together, people! We're out of time

Just Do It

Rather than deal with issues facing humanity, we seem to be putting them all in the "fucket bucket"... Don't do it, people... we have a planet to save!  Our kids, our future, all creatures are at risk... wake up!

Put it in the Fuck It Bucket!

Vastman, focused on climate change, renewables, trajectories, pathways...and how we're gonna get out of the mess we're in... We MAKE the future so change the rules of the game.  You can also visit my Soundclick page and blog at tinyurl.com/vastman... 

I'm an "infomaniac", tracking energy and climate issues in particular, creating songs addressing these issues, seeking ways to achieve evolutionary harmony on our new planet "Eaarth".

I've always felt we were moving in questionable directions and spent the earlier part of my live fantasizing on what could be, working at GAO for 13 years focusing on alternate futures, particularly emphasizing ecological and energy issues.  I now pursue music and gardening, finding the latter provided a level of sanity in an otherwise messed up world. Always writing about where we are and future possibilities, with the goal of changing things...

Listen up, People! As...
we make the future...
VastmanDana


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