A quick note about where the Kickstarter campaign is at we're at - with known contributors, just over the $2000 mark. It's pretty (*&@#@# cool if you ask me. It's easy, it's quick and it's what you want to do! Please click the link and consider pledging what you can. Just a few more days of these asks, so thanks for hanging in there.
For today's song spotlight - "Mason Jars". I debated whether to include this song, both on the album, and here as one of my little features on my blog/FB. I think it's important but the subject matter is uncomfortable. Still, that's what art is about - challenging our comfort zones and pushing us to find new ways to see the things that make us who we are.
The lyrics have been featured as a poem in the Gap Toothed Madness - a local Sacramento anthology - with very little changed. It's a fitting song for a Sunday, because it deals with how the people who introduced me to God via the Pentecostal faith, poisoned my heart by molesting my young body.
I created a simple sound to contrast the subject matter much the way this contrast has felt inside over the years. It's very short, and I think it's very sweet in its dark innocence. I think it brings up a difficult but important subject and, while I went back and forth about whether I wanted to put this out there, I decided that it was more important to be true to the story I'm telling and my project than to be comfortable. I've often found amazing things just outside my comfort zone. I'll post a link to the sound and ask you to take a listen, find the power below the song and imagine what it - along with the rest of this project - could sound like given the proper treatment.
The lyrics have been featured as a poem in the Gap Toothed Madness - a local Sacramento anthology - with very little changed. It's a fitting song for a Sunday, because it deals with how the people who introduced me to God via the Pentecostal faith, poisoned my heart by molesting my young body.
I created a simple sound to contrast the subject matter much the way this contrast has felt inside over the years. It's very short, and I think it's very sweet in its dark innocence. I think it brings up a difficult but important subject and, while I went back and forth about whether I wanted to put this out there, I decided that it was more important to be true to the story I'm telling and my project than to be comfortable. I've often found amazing things just outside my comfort zone. I'll post a link to the sound and ask you to take a listen, find the power below the song and imagine what it - along with the rest of this project - could sound like given the proper treatment.
