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sallyX four years of secrecy some called it lunacy i called it only love. i could have taken vows i could have ended rows, but none of the above. sally. sally. others have come and gone asked me to come along, but i chose to decline. i’m waiting in the wind for you to let [...]

i suppose this is an announcement. with humans: expanded edition, the archive-restoration project will be fulfilled. look for it by march 1st. original album art concept from 2000:

   the album cover artwork for restoring utopia (by entropy) was based on an original, lithograph monoprint by jonathan t marlowe made in 2000.

I Part of me admits feeling pathetic for attending a high school art show. I had no genuine interest in the artwork. I barely knew a single student in the show, and the teachers I had when I was their student seemed under-enthusiastic about my presence. Besides, I had just graduated from college the week before. [...]

in the year 2000, i released my first demo album. it was called humans, and the image above is the artwork i used with it. the concept behind  the artwork is the plaque carried into space by Pioneer 10 in 1972. as i prepare to release the decade-anniversary disc of humans, the album artwork challenges [...]

my first recording sucked. that’s a statement i can make 10 years later, a decade after thinking how great it sounded, recorded onto demo cassette tapes through radioshack gear. ”studio 4“ probably cost me less than $200 to assemble.     the core elements of “studio x” are now being gathered. i hope that it won’t be long until [...]

a knock upon the door, that’s all i’m asking for. nothing less, nothing more. i know you’re still awake, and i could use a break from the books, and the ache. and maybe i was wrong, ignoring you so long. i was weak, acting strong. there’s no one else around. i’m listening to the sound of my heart as [...]

one in a million, a million to one; when it comes down to numbers, it isn’t much fun. i’ve kept the statistics, and followed the trends; as soon as it happens to me, my strategy ends, i know mathematics, but it’s not math i need. forget the statistics, ignore probability. the odds are against me, but odds [...]

is it agreed that MTV’s “unplugged” series had an significant impact on the direction taken by music over the past decade? in my opinion, popular performances, like those by eric clapton and neil young, who re-opened their catalogues to share obscure songwriting gems, revealed that both live acoustic music and edited studio recordings are equally valid artistic [...]

… from around may 2009. we don’t know if the interview was ever published, so we’ll respect the blogger’s anonymity for now. Who is Yearlongday, and whose idea was forming the band? [John] yearlongday is the alternative pop duo of Jonathan T Marlowe (singer/guitarist from United States) and Leah L’Orange (singer/percussionist from Canada). Although I [...]