I gots some cleanin’ to do

Writing, advertising, art, S. Pressfield

My friend Paulie and I spend hours on the net reading and exchanging links of good stuff, mostly politics, but often history, and ecology,  and Star Trek, and media and art.

He sent this link:

The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned

And I like it, what the author says. and I wrote a response to it, thus:

Not just writing, it’s a concept that I live by re my music.

I know you get some ads directly from me of stuff I post. You will you never get ads of my music from anyone else. (At least not until they start charging for storage or bandwidth.)

That’s because I refuse to engage in commerce with my art. That means I start out not giving a fuck if anyone listens – I’m still gonna do it, so I eliminate the need for response, $, etc., and get on with the doing of it.

Note I said, “need”. Doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate such things, just that I do not allow it to be the slightest motivation for my art.

And if that sounds pompous, so be it – art is about ego, courage, insecurity, love, hate – y’know, it’s about life from its own vantage.

And if you think I’m not serious, there’s over 600 songs at this site, alone:

https://vlayman.bandcamp.com/

LAR: *FF Strange*

1. Drinkin’ with the Dogs 03:36
2. FF Strange 03:48
3. Drivin’ You Away 03:53
4. The Way of It 04:12

Is the the beginnerin’ of the endage, or the end of ever’fookin’thang, or nevermoreatallexecpt,
or a paws of the Greater Celestial Poozy, or a anomalous attempt at nuffin’? You deicide, cuz
we is alive, mebbe, and She jes’ mightcoul’be.

c.’ 19
credits
released March 9, 2019

Drums and ‘tude: JimC
Guitars and ‘ludes: TomS
Alltherest and snoozes: Vlayman

Writ, playt, mixt, masturd, sequenced at FetaCentralRecording DDL somewhere souf o’ Chi-town, yo

Fartwerk by Jose Jones

bandcamp; vlayman;
THD; Geronimo Cowboys;
blog.
I mix with olive juice.

Vlayman: *Lying There*

1. She’s Gotta 04:14
2. Sweet (I Don’t Like It) 04:31
3. Absinthe Hour – with Silversmith 03:33
4. Between Sorrow & Goodbye (The Place) 03:44
5. Lying There (Look At You) 04:54

hoodafonknows

c. ’19 Vlayman
released March 2, 2019

“Absinthe Hour” drums, gtrs, keys: Silversmith
“Lying There” drums: nettage
All other drums: JimC
All else: Vlayman
Writ, recorded, mixt, sequenced, masturd at FetaCentralRecording, DDL on the South side of Chi, except Silversmith’s trax was done in Commanda, CAN.
Fartwerk by Jose Jones

bandcamp; vlayman;
THD; Geronimo Cowboys;
blog.
I mix with olive juice.