Take Me Around © 2003 Mindhue Studio Take me around and then Take me away and then Tell me you’ll leave and then Tell me you’ll stay I can’t remember which Side that you’re on so I’m Just acting casual in case That you’re gone Why are we dancing a- Round in this twist was […]
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Random thoughts, settings, characters, situations, perhaps leading somewhere
Underground Zero A hookup or a lookup or a query on Google Take me out and get me down and bury me under Static plastic drastic measures spun in a tangle Sunny splashing thrashing trashing bassmatic thunder Your piercing eyebrowed steeloid gazes draw me in flashpoint Crashing smashing bloody lives smeared on the asphalt Overturning […]
The first impression that comes to me is heat. Heat and the sound of a Diesel engine. This was the soundtrack of a late summer, a summer in the cusp of the 90s, an era I spent quite a bit of time driving around in a ’81 Diesel VW Rabbit. That particular model of automobile […]
Perhaps it is a truism, but people tend to forget: children remember things. They also understand more than you expect. Perhaps their understanding has gaps or naivetes, but the basics are usually there. I say this because of my memory of one of my favorite songs from the early 1980s. I was all of eight […]
2013-01-05 ::
Edward Semblance //
Snapsongs
Snapsongs: “Spirits in the Material World” by the Police
Snapsongs: “Spirits in the Material World” by the Police
The word that comes to mind when I think of my first reaction to this song is: unearthly. Why? I’m not sure. I was in fifth grade. On first thought one could say, What would a fifth-grader know about unearthly? But it’s not like nine-year-olds never hear music. By that age I’d had a long […]
So a new concept here is something I’m calling “snapsongs”, in which I do a quick sketch of the scene a particular song evokes in my head when I hear it. These songs may not be my favorite, or even ones I like terribly much, but for some reason they evoke a specific time, place […]
So the original experiment didn’t exactly work, but two years later I’m back to see what happens. I’ll try smaller bits of writing, musings and scenes and whatnot, to see if I can get back in the swing.
Edward Semblance started as more of a joke than anything, because I liked the sound and connotations of the word “semblance” and “Edward” can be contracted to “Ted”, my present nom-de-mundi. It later became my alter-ego for various musical projects I’ve done, including the never-popular and long-defunct live bands Külip and Conspiracy Theorists and the […]