getting high on my own supply - 0. "content"
[i'm kind of stuck artistically lately and i want to try something else (deborah is also starting a month of daily comics, so i'm inspired to try to do something constructive myself while she works), so i'm going to start a new series that's different than the usual form of this newsletter. i could start a separate newsletter but given the trouble i have keeping up with one newsletter and the likelihood i will abandon this and the lack of care i have for perfect aesthetic unity i'm just going to combine them (for now at least)(liberation content will continue everywhere obvi 🕊️🇵🇸)]
episode 0: “content”
the winter of my senior year of college, i bought a two input line 6 audio recording interface and an sm-57 microphone. this is the first recording i have, which i made the day they came in the mail from musician’s friend to the house where i lived in tallahassee a few days before spring semester. in the few years after that i would release around a hundred songs and this series will explore these basement tapes, my back pages.
this one minute song, "content", the lyrics of which are just the word “content” pronounced two different ways over and over again, already has in evidence a number of characteristics that will repeatedly be seen elsewhere in my ouevre:
- layered downstroke electric guitars
- the use of EQ’d down guitar as “bass”
- blown-out sound (both aesthetically and also unintentionally)
- faux-analog (all effects are always digital) tape delay
- avoidance of writing “real” lyrics / reliance on puns
