For a long time now, I’ve had a couple of extended works in mind. One of them I’ve mentioned before: the Codename Baby opera. (I just made that name up, just now. Whaddya think? No, I didn’t think so, either. Still airballin’.) That work, of course, as envisioned, will cannibalize a bunch of my songs […]
Somewhere, a long way away, he heard the alarm on his cell phone ring. On the TV, someone was talking about Guy Lombardo. He reached out from the couch to stab the TV remote. Someone was talking about how, over the next day or two, western civilization as we knew it would be grinding to […]
Tipping points. They’re like subway stations, I guess. If you miss one, it’s gonna be a helluva ride back. And sometimes, having missed your stop, you find yourself at a place where it really can be said: You can’t get there from here. That’s what a lot of people have been saying for a long […]
In 1996, for a few moments, I envisioned myself making a cottage industry of millennium-themed songs, of which this would be only the first. It was, perhaps happily, the only. Still, I did record a kind of techno house version of this song in my little project studio back in 1999, and posted it on […]