DRIvel(s) circa 2015-2024

[craola]

k.c.q.keep me entttttrtain'd.
like a leap f/frog
hopping.ping.ping. hopping
hopping like a leap frog
from one lilypppad to
one lilypad

a moment of peace
when i'm alone
no no no nah nah no
i can't take the silence

fill every nook and c-c'c.ranny
w.ith. space. with noise. with something.
to keep me. entttttrtain'd.
just keep me enttttrtaindt
like a s.serpent on a silver scr.screen
serpent on a silver screen

ppppp-pigs in cages
rats in a cage
sets on a stage
just k.k.-ckeep my int'rteighnd.
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[craola]

dnt splice me too quickly, beaubro. take. yr. time. spli.spli.cpslice-rite. a cut's only so good as its trajectory. a burn, its light. the sparkles, the blisters and the scars, the scares that measure the lines, faded, forgotten... but the pain remains. so burst the bubble with a pop that illuminates the sky at night, if only fr aflash and abang. something to remember. a blast aginst the burbling flesh. babbling like brooks in a banishbrushbanshee sonderlusty fruitcoil windsnap.

graffiti looks brighter on urban abandon and abolishn. the abolism of abismal absidite absurdity. absolved and absweated. beat brow on the books you siltlift'd from the dust. rusted screws.ranssacked wedding cakes.abstract paintings.awkward,embrrss'd,emotionally-detached,timid, with the self-esteem of a shrew in the palms of a preyng mntis. predated by something so small... as if you're worth a bear's time.
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tink'rng with thsre.

the manic side used to be the bigger man, but the cynical, depressive guy has spent so many years taunting and putting manic man down thtat evnn manicman feels down most of the time. BUT manicman seems to have found some upper ground lately. somthng bout , well, the we... too many thoguhts to getm' all down. but i've recordngnd a dozen tracks in the past two mnths AND gotten round to animating, sm writing, tattoo design, drawng, even panting... manicman is back. but the insomnia si gainng grnd. dnt wnt to lose hm. devizing asom strgyty......

but in the mean time i need to figure out where this anermacion is going. thbinking ... can i get back in fyfe's goiod graces? and greig. /? maybe perhaps not likely nbt MAYbe.

am i jst thnkng n rvrse?
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[craola]

glistn tinker, listn linger
but it's always on the back
of your mind, of your burner
keep it light, keep it qck
keep it underneath the sink
outside, we light the cigarettes
as we unwind

another burner in the back
put it out, for the night
city turning out the lights
but the voices in your head
scrmng mtchs in a bed
where flames are licking out the spaces
where you run from what you said
pressing pause and rewind

so you give another sleep
to another venom drink
save the rest for the breast
as you burn them from your chest
nvr knwng what you're missing
as you poke around the kitchen
screw the burners in the back
put me down, for the count
i can't unwind
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[craola]

that late-night, weird, introverted vibe that you get from:

Talk Talk | The Colour Of Spring
Stina Nordenstam | Memories Of A Color
Radiohead | Amnesiac
Destroyer | Kaputt

it's got all the elements of the bop / free jazz that you love, but it's accessibly pop. there are songs in it. i mean, i'll never tire of these hugely dominant influences:

Charles Mingus | Let My Children Hear Music
John Coltrane | A Love Supreme

but sometimes, i want the human element to come forward more. i want the poet to sit in the middle of the piece and tell me what's going on in their head in their heart in their hands. with their mouth.

so the next record i'm making should hopefully look something like ths. prey for me.a.t.
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[craola]

was 1 the wage between you two\\
that rifted you apart?

- you\\ like two worms slithering
...danglers 2 nibbled at

3 didn't swim too far from there
but her worm snuck off its hook
and followed 4 into the dark

all the while, yours was stuck
in the back of 5's mind:
a tug of war you lost for lack of follow through
before you truly fell apart
drifting ever from the shore
until you too had lost the line that reels you in

out of hunger, 6 bit at the wiggler that lagged behind
the taste was not sweet
...by then, you were gone
and 7 wished you'd waited

cause everyone saves their fireworks
for the end of the night
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[craola]

aftr all ths yrs
wsh we hdnt wtd so lng
no, no, no, im gld we wtd
cs i knw wh i used to be
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[craola]

REDUCTED
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[craola]

Microphone:
Shure Beta SM58A

Guitars:
Gibson Les Paul Melody Maker (Flat Blue)
Fender Stratocaster (American/Black)
Goya Concert Guitar

Pedal Board: (literally nothing the same as last post)
Quasar
Apex Predator
BitQuest
Syntax Error
Radical ][+
Count to 5
Atom Smasher
Shark Twins

Amplifiers:
Blackheart BH5H Little Giant Tube Amp
Blackheart BH100 Crate Hot Head
Fender Power Chorus
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