Ben Lee covers Against Me!’s New Wave

Yeah. It’ll break your heart. Ben Lee covers the entire new Against Me album puts a whole new spin on it. Gut wrenchingly beautiful. Here is a link to the scenestars post and within it you can find links to download the tracks. “Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart” and “Thrash Unreal” are [...]

Digital Nightmare pt. 1

Man, I creeped myself out by googling myself tonight during a rather boring presentation by a guest speaker. There were hundreds of pages with my name on it, most of them linked to [Former Site] and quite a few from [Former] Magazine. The weirdest one was Zoom Info – a database of professionals. Somehow they [...]

Digital Nightmare pt. 2

Someday I’ll just fall off the grid entirely.
Who needs a publisher and who cares what anyone says anyway when everyone is talking at the same time?
3 billion voices, clicking away on keyboards everywhere at any time of the day or night.
How much static?
The static that used to be noiseless is now one big wall of [...]

Digital Nightmare pt. 3

This portrait just goes on…endless horizon…and we all pay attention with our eyes barely open, reflecting the blue glow of the new world,
burning our ships on the shores of a vast electric amniotic sea.
Its not a new world in the stars…not a new world under the ocean…
Not a new world in another dimension where our [...]

Apartment Living

‘Why don’t you shut the fuck up!’ he throws words, she throws plates
We all recoil, huddled, humbled in our blankets of, ‘is that what we sound like?’
These people cannot conceptualize the terror of open ears.
Between the two-by-four studs and drywall springs some secret language…
Languished and emptied that pool of decent lines that are always crossed,
To [...]

Histories Whores

A hillside spitting like a punctured artery
beneath the bridges of commerce
where the forgotten forge lonely bonds
with the crude beauty of the elements.
Sprayed in defiant patterns,
dancing in a symphony
of despair
The assassin sleeps without anxiety
Each bone has a function
And all the dead men sing
“DISTRACTION”
…we’ll cut your throat if you say too much
…we’ll cut your tongue out
Drink the [...]

Security Issues

Keeping track of every step
on the bottom of this dark ocean
wondering when I’ll hit dry land – or step off the continental shelf and sink to the depths
where the sea creatures glow with envy
at the sound of my collapsing internal organs.
Amongst the silent monsters, damned to darkness, inky and cold, jagged and old
ancient sea beasts [...]