sometimes i get bored

just another Friday night in the "studio" from dKOTA on Vimeo.

observation from a shadowed barstool

i'm alone //

i'm surrounded by people and i'm alone / and yet, i feel alive //

because everyone around me is already dead, fatally wounded by a vacuous puncture of ennui / they bleed out every feigned intent, every feigned smile; they tag their epitaph on a Saturday night marquee //

i feel alive, ironically enough, because i know i'm already dying / but unlike a puncture wound, my death is a slow suffocation / and a slow death, as painful as it may be, is a merciful reminder that every exhalation is a beautiful breath forever lost / life, then, is not the absence of death; rather, it's the embrace of death -- the embrace of death's interest rate; the embrace of our borrowed grace period; the embrace of death's tragedy  / within such, we may as well find the comedy: these actors around me are working for free_

progress

i think i may have only one more song to track before i can start mastering and polishing the "live with coffee and wine in an apartment" album / it's been so much fun recording music in such a casual manner, and to reconnect with the songs in their naked foundation / i'm really looking forward to getting this out there to share // soon...

of the birds and the trees_