A compilation of tracks from my younger age while battling myself and the universe, including a number of romantic tragedy songs and the angst of wanting to be genuinely happy and helpful while giving your all to an imperfect balance that will eventually and perhaps continually fall and not knowing how to do better.

I hope these, and my other music (especially those of past times, which are represented by a few edited down albums and include much of the drama of the human condition put to poetry and sound) miraculously somehow make the world better for being made available here.

These are from my art punk musical past. For me personally each song carries great emotional weight, but these are the lightest of the hundreds of songs recorded, and there is something in each of them that, usually musically, I find surprising, enigmatic and enjoy to hear in the right time and place.

Many were made as part of an incredibly supportive and deeply cherished band of friends known as 5! Now You're Talking (5!NYTK), towards whom I will forever remain humbled by their powerful unity, hard work, humor and passion.

There are many, many, many more songs we made as a band (or bands) that contain some wonderful writing, playing, recording and production, most of which I have removed for the simple reason that I realized I have not yet been able to check in with everyone who contributed to the bands' music if they were happy to have it distributed on-line, though almost certainly they would be generally fine with it to my knowledge. Even still I would want to curate it down to the highlights.

Also there are a lot of songs omitted that I wrote, which remind me of things I desperately want to have done differently, some times extremely so - such is life, though I am grateful for all that I have experienced and learned along the way in this life -, and which I did not see how they would improve on anyone's life at present (even the one's that remained I am skeptical of, but it is also good in general to present oneself authentically, so here I am in many aspects - some that were and some that are. That music Thank you to everyone i have had the fortune to play with. May you all be happy and well!!!!!! Lots of LOVE!

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