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what a fabulous year 2011 has been so far! let’s reminisce together… january- the original shot-story four years come, four years go is published. it is a narrative companion to my first album, humans, and foreshadows the imminent release of the “expanded edition“. doesn’t make a blip on the radar. february- the announcement is made [...]

tentative track list for the “best of jonathan t marlowe & yearlongday” album. the album will span 2000-2010 as a companion to the forthcoming biography, smothered by the silence. at the moment, no album art. 1. my formula (from humans) 2. believe (from humans) 3. nobody hurt without an excuse (from humans, 2000) 4. sally [...]

far be it from me to build mountains from molehills, but 2011 is showing potential to be another epic year for jonathan t marlowe & co. consider the evidence… – march: my first album, “humans” is restored and expanded to 29 songs, including 14 bonus tracks of rare, previously unreleased material & new, decade-anniversary mixes. [...]

i am very pleased to announce that the restoration of my first three albums is now complete. on march 8, humans: expanded edition became commercially available on compact disc. although it was the last of  the pre-yearlongday trilogy to be restored, humans was my very first attempt at producing an original demo album. the new “expanded [...]

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:

david lee roth (crazy from the heat) phil collins (hello, i must be going) billy idol (vital idol) a few words before i explain the images above… food science has made it household knowledge that we will likely experience flatulence after eating beans, process regularly after consuming prunes, increase our alertness after drinking caffienated beverages. the way [...]

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 [...]

tonight, i lost a cut-throat game of scrabble. i paced myself, biding my time and reserving my letters for more valuable words, including “stadium” for 40 points. in the end, however, i fell short of victory. sometimes, i find game-like ways to write music… in 1995, the first year i really approached songwriting seriously, i read something about how brian [...]