Many English speakers make the claim, “I sit in front of a screen all day.” This would imply the screen sits behind “me.” Yet, no doubt the screen sits squarely in front of me, even as you read these words from behind yours. Were I the screen, I would instead see a human face in…
“Dawn of the Augur” (alt. title “The Crossing of Auspices”) dropped on 01/22/2026. Listen wherever you get your music. These Liner Notes serve to supplement the release, providing the lyrics, colophon, and credits, as well as broader insights into the context, construction, and meaning of the track directly from the creator. This follows the trend…
I made the news today //
It all happened at once: //
Someone peering down at their //phone, alarmed as, //
All of a sudden, in a great reflex of //passion, //
I boldly declared, "fire, FIRE! Flee to the // nearest foxhole, now!"
My gaze scrapes the blue-gray skyline //
Over scores of peaks and bumps of shadow //
A reservoir peeks out like an alien-Lump, a stumpy kind of ship //
Sitting adrift there on the shore of the broken skyline
Hey, readers of (In)Sitze and music lovers! I made a list of my Top 10 favorite albums to come out in 2025, with listening links (YouTube or Bandcamp) for each one and brief writeups of my impressions. The format is similar to last year’s. There’s a broad variety of genres in here, so if you’re…
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On Friday, November 7th, 2025, I released a new single, “hapless romantics.” For anyone curious for more context, here’s a post unfogging some of my thoughts, feelings, reflections and details about the process of writing and constructing the song. You can think of it like an analog to the liner notes you occasionally find in…
My first blog post on (In)Sitze was over two and a half years ago. I wrote it over a (perennial) family spring break trip to Pensacola, FL, in early 2023, at a time when both my position as a musician and values as a listener were beginning to clash with the state of the industry.…
Creative BLOCKS Are Meant for Playing with: I’m unsure what to write about. All I know is the title. Come to think of it, I can’t even imagine what I would write about. Instead, I find myself writing rewriting expressions of frustration at not knowing what to write about…this so-called “creative block.” I’ll admit, I’m…
If technique were the only path to prestige, we would be suffocated by a pantheon of power players all getting their shred-on with no recourse to creative spirit. Granted, when it comes to music’s strength, part of that which mobilizes bodies to do more than dance, i.e., excites novel countercultural movements at large, has historically…
