1. 90's Children

2. Coyote

4. Tripler

5. Yymnast

8. Arizona Ash

9. Something's Gotta Give

10. Secret Song/Hidden Track/Beerhatzzz

05 Caffeine, Guns.

Terminal

That BQE is haunted and its crowded as a moshpit
but out here we got a bridge across the bay
we could put honey in our coffee
and we could live like kings by proxy
if you ever make it out New York State
You’re out in bluebood country
we’ve got blues and bloods too, honey
the neighborhood would really blow you away
just north of all the orchards and far west from all the scorched earth
where last night’s drinks are a wino’s cheap bouquet
yeah, you winter in the catskills, and you summer in the sound
you got no spring in your step at all in fall
but when you hear the trolley cars and hyphy music in the bars
you can be lost as hell and still feel glory bound.

Sure there are gunshots and some knife fights
and there ain’t much of a nightlife
California dreamin’ on a winter’s day.
Leave yr big city and bright lights
we’ll try and have ourselves a nice life
in the city by the city by the bay.

Of course those new york girls enthrall me
but those dirty crooks on wall street
are pimping out the hipsters to the mayor
so when rent rises on your police state
we’ll keep the porch light on in the East Bay
Hell, we can even put some flowers in your hair.

it was broken
but I had a change of heart
sitting in oakland
strumming strange guitars

Sure there are gunshots and some knife fights
and there ain’t much of a nightlife
California dreamin’ on a winter’s day
leave yr big city and bright lights
we’ll try and have ourselves a nice life
in the city by the city by the bay
it ain’t perfect, but it’s worth it 
see what feelings just might surface
in the city by the city by the bay.


The City By The City By The Bay [Demo]

Drinking iced coffee with a pride of lions.

Room for Era

Head South

Osama Bin Laden, Goosebumps, something like that.

Ghost Beach

hocico demo (for Burroughs The Cat)

I’m feeling empty as a threat, 
your electronic cigarette doesn’t kick but it glows and gleams. 
Still got an inbox full of texts, 
the ardent spirits in the chest are neither surgical nor Nazarene. 
They’re playing Nina on the radio, 
I can see the dandelions though I’m not certain if they wither or bloom

And I don’t miss drinking, I just miss drinking with you.

Now as the world draws to a close, 
new kinds of streams begin to flow along some different channels. 
We can demonize the host like the unfriendliest of ghosts 
and make sure that the signals scramble, 
so take a hammer to your burner phone 
as the car headlights slowly approach and spell our certain doom

I don’t miss drinking, I just miss drinking with you
   
Now don’t get me wrong, 
you’re looking mighty ghostly but you still radiate the darkest light 
and I keep looking in the rearview, the way that men in fear do 
when they’ve forgotten to hide the bloody knife.

You’re not my special someone
but you’re someone who is special
like a lantern in the distance or a deal with the devil

I’m not the man for you 
but I adjust the speaker levels
by cranking up the gain and going easy on the treble

Oh, but mama you are on my mind when the corks unscrew.

I don’t miss drinking, I just miss drinking with you.


Letter To Austin [Mono]

You thought salvation was a candle you could buy in the ethnic food aisle.
So we set fire to the wick which dribbles wax on to the virgin
now that we walk outside of darkness, the books say we should be fine.
She's not a Catholic, no,
she's at one with the universe.
Took her a couple of times and a couple of lines
'til she made peace with the world.

I came only to fix things and then let go
filed the paperwork, said I was going home

But I got held up on the road by my calypso.

I saw a girl who looked like you, but less dangerous
I did not know what to say so I bit my lip.
Followed the siren sounds of squad cars when the rain comes down in sheets
The enchantress must have followed, turned the warriors to pigs.

I'm not a captive, no,
I'm free to run the universe.
After a couple of scuffles and some vodka doubles
I have made peace with the world.

I was there only to fix things then let go
At the reunion of the muscle and the bone

That's where I got held up on the road by my Calypso.

Calypso Delay

Untitled I

Musical Chairs

Musical Chairs (True Jazz Fans Only)

Buffalo!

You remember  Hillary with the coal, 
right,  sitting with the miners at the table?
Remember?  
That wasn’t  so good for her.  

So the people 
of West Virginia 
 and  all over, 
 you look at Wyoming, 
 you look at  
so many different places  
where they just,  
Pennsylvania, 
 where they loved what we did,
and it’s clean coal  
and 
we have the most  modern procedures.

But  it’s a tremendous form of energy
in the sense that 
 in a military way  
— think of it —
  coal is indestructible.

You can blow up a pipeline,  
you can blow up the windmills.

You know, the windmills, 
 boom, boom, boom  
[mimicking windmill sound]  
bing! 
[mimes shooting large gun]

that’s the end of that one. 

 If the birds don’t kill it first. 
 The birds could kill it first.  
They kill so many birds.

You look underneath  some of those windmills, 
 it’s like a killing field,
the birds.

But you know,  
that’s what they were going to, 
 they were going to windmills.

And you know, don’t worry about 
—  when the wind doesn’t blow, 

I said, 
 ‘What happens  when the wind doesn’t blow?’

‘Well, then we have a problem.’


-Donald J. Trump

Mimicking Windmill Sounds (live reading with Art Blakey Jazz Ensemble

Dissolve pt II

I can't believe it's come to this.
Got cancelled after posting pics
of me dancing at Coachella
In an appropriative headdress.

My brand was once so affable
Acquiring social capital
It's not what you do
It's who you know.

I'm ruining my credit in the summer.

I never thought I'd see the day:
evicted just for trying to pay
my landlord in exposure.
She doesn't understand disruption.
Finally, it dawned on me
within a gig economy
Every bitcoin spent
is a bitcoin earned.

I'm ruining my credit in the summer.

Fan Fiction

In The Summer

By removing one letter, you can change the word "driver" to "river"
and you can change the composition of gold when it's alloyed with silver.
Sometimes the smallest shift can make a whole world of difference
and there's a case to be made against that, 
but it's gotta be better than nihilism.

This sinister year gave us all a hell of a beating.
I was miserable and bitter. Life was easy.
Today I'm trying to claw my way out of my own fiction
and there's a case to be made against that,
but it's gotta be better than nihilism.

Seems like we're born then we're crushed underfoot by a matrix of systems
that objectify and corrode our lived existence.
So maybe my despair was just an act of submission
and there's a case to be made against that,
but it's gotta be better than nihilism.

So now I'm sitting drinking coffee in a midtown Miami high-rise
and a new world is a-comin', I'm approaching it with my eyes wide.
Waging war on brain chemistry and cynicism
and there's a case to be made against that but it's gotta be
a case to be made against joy but it's gotta be 
a case to be made against hope but it's gotta be
better than nihilism.

Yeehaw.

Get With It Or Get Out

Nihilism (This Sinister Year)

I dreamt Pablo Picasso pulled a gun on me

Poem about god demo

We Still End Our Phone Calls With I Love You

Keyboard Eagle (Kegel)

The kids want Beto demo

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