released February 5, 2017

I end up looking for metaphors and analogies a lot. What is the difference between a metaphor and analogy? I've definitely learned this at some point. Ok, internet, the filing cabinet of everyone's brain, Thank you, a metaphor is a figure of speech while analogy a rational argument used to explain how two "apparently dissimilar" things are "in reality," quite similar :) So anyhow, I'm gonna stick to metaphor so as to avoid responsibility of The Rational, clearly an ideologically loaded concept.
What were we talking about? We weren't talking about anything really so let's start anew!
I think there are a lot of good examples to follow out there. And, necessarily, at least as many bad examples. I'm convinced that things that don't think have figured it out. That's what to follow, things that don't think. They're not fucked up, they're just natural. Nature is what I'm talking about. Today I want to think about the nature of the human body.
Beyond today I want to think about it as well. For the moment, I just want to contemplate it as a source of metaphor. Actually, I think I just want to introduce the idea of contemplating it, I want to focus on the music.

The second half of the album mostly came first. And the first part is for sure prettier and easier to listen to. But of course, pretty and easy aren't the only qualities, also, I really like what came of the time spent makin' those sharp ass tracks and I super believe in a focus on process. How else is anyone to learn anything of value??

We should not live in a world that is mostly invisible and untranslatable to us!

To decide what is nature is dangerous. To look at and learn from Nature is a different thing, and I hope, safe. Or, fuck safe. "Shit, what do I do??? How do I reconcile my contradictions????"--every thinking thing.

Every thinking thing has contradictions, so that's what I'm saying, about looking at the non-thinking, contradictions being a non-barrier, no ego hurdles between contradiction and reconciliation, bam, immediate dealing with. THIS IS PROCESS, dealing with. How did they reconcile this? I want to know! Thank you for sharing! I'm talking about Folk Art here. I'm talking about everyone feeling equally engaged with aesthetics because it's the only organizational concept fluid enough to wrangle us crazy humans, fucking motley crew if I ever saw one.

I thought about 'rising sounds' during all this, a growing versus a being built. Seems like a useful metaphor, to grow instead of build.

Recorded this music 2/4/17, mixed and thought about it 2/5/17.