the MySpace works

I was stirring the mix at my MySpace site and decided to change the available sound files, so I did.

I added "Erotic V", off of THE LAST ROMANTIC VERB - it adds some spice and a long form piece to the mix. With an evolving musical tapestry, poems from the amusing (Lust Bunnies) to the blatantly erotic (Feral With Desire) and the amazing backing vocals by the Selke, it is a lust-tinged treat. At about 11 minutes in length, it makes for a nice background.

This goes with "Love Gods Multivox" which I just added yesterday. I had fun with this one, recording a half-dozen different readings of my approach to "Love Gods of a Forgotten Religion", then layering them. With filters to various tracks, you hear a spectrum of voices, each interpreting the work slightly differently, adding their own rhythm and inflection. It works. The you have the harp-like guitar and the ceramic drums backfilling and you have a strangely primitive chant of the work, almost like a gathering of priest and priestesses (or gods and goddesses) contemplating their role in the tapestry of love.

Remaining is "The Gods of Love, Live at Kyrienar". Who could refuse that work? Three poems, in a virtual concert, with driving music and an appreciative crowd...when they roar their approval of the line from "TRANSCENDENCE" - "and raises high the last romantic verb..." I get chills. That poem has been a great comfort to me. Originally written as a "screw you" to the Panther, it stood me well in more recent disaffections.

And finally, we get "NQ" - my hip hop take on "The Nosferatu's Quandry". You can dance to it, it is designed for that. Well, actually, it was set to the natural rhythm of the human reproductive system. Yes, it is timed to sex. You have a problem with that?

And referring back to yesterday's rant about global warming. I am reminded, when people talk about the potential for economic slowdown if we keep everyone from dying horribly: Elaine Boosler used to do, in her standup routine, a bit about public service announcements during the early days of the AIDS crisis, telling people to wear condoms because "It's not worth dying for"...her response was "The hell it isn't"...she'd point out you should be telling people to wear a condom so they can "Have sex for years to come"...

To those Captains of Industry who want to say "Screw you' to the American people and the people of the world, just remember, if we survive this situation, you can continue to abuse and exploit us for your own immoral and avaricious means for years to come...(Or as Charlton Heston said so ably in "The Ten Commandments": "This is a brick. Hungry slaves make few. Dead slaves make none.")