This is the BLESS page.
From which issue the interrobang corroborations we shall envision as serious games. serious: game on.
sign: bless
countersign: interrobang
check it out in instrumental format: bless: america’s greatest hits vol. 1. (forthcoming from pureproduct media)
check it out full-bore vocal render: bless: america’s greatest hits vol 1. (forthcoming from pureproduct media)
Dandy Factor designed selections from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson with musical accompaniment by George Bradfute, the Tone Chaperone. The poetry sought an almost call and response format for the two ur-voices of American poetry: the national soul uttered forth as benchmark, as touchstone.
The lyrics move from eros to thanatos and everywhere between, uttering the quotidian symphonic that ushers forth our legacy as a nation, symbolized in the musical narrative provided by the Tone Chaperone, who takes us from fiddle to banjo, to field stomp holler to country vein of mercury, to swing to bebop mentalities, morphing into mid 20th century rockabilly breakdown into prog rock flash glam trance.
And all the way back to the banjo, the fiddle and then nothing but the crickets. Sweet dreams, dear America. We awaken in the morning with much done on our behalf while we rested. The universe loves our short-haired joy, our roughness. Let us all love it again.
Dickinson wrote with a laser, Whitman wrote with a ocean of a nation. Our legacy, our lineage. The Aristocracy of Self: Pursuit of happiness as white whale. Call me Ishmael.
5.31.09: 50th birthday present. Self to self: half-way behind, half-way ahead.
secular alchemy sacred spirit, blessed be.