Well, um. For the record, I do make music, from about 1:30 pm Sunday to about 2 pm friday, every week, essentially every day.. Come to LA and you can watch me. I may even enlist your services.

I dont publicise on the board most of the things I do musically, cause for the most part, it's not music you'd probably respond to. Mostly no vocals, etc... In fact, I dont publicise much of anything, cause I'm dead sick of people publicising stuff, unless it's a clearly commercial type dealie. Which I havent indulged in on this board.

Also, even if it is something you might like--like the stuff i'm doing for "into the wild", or even the singing dinosaur music from "URMEL", or the brutal metal/trance music for Allice Cooper and Bloodrayne, or the stuff I'm doing for Pete Yorn or Jesca Hoop, or the wierd ambient stuff for The Weatherman, I'm not legally allowed to distribute it in this kind of format. I would be immediately sued. People tend to want to make a living wage, and having a principal creative partner on a project distribute the stuff individually, gratis or not, raises a lot of eyebrows and lawyers fees. True, the filmscore stuff nobody really cares about, but most of that music was meant (surprise) to accompany film, and isnt really intended for casual listening. (unless youre a full on film music geek like myself.)

And It is true that I could just post my personal acoustic-based music as I do it... plop it on the net, for your edification and pleasure, but for some reason I'm not inclined to--call it a pattern of withholding, or shyness, or laziness, or simply the desire to get it done right before i bother with releasing it to anyone..

And, yes, I suppose I could try to transform this board into some kind of personal self-promotion device, but I would be sickened by that, and I assume Dan would be too, and I won't do that. My biggest creative regret of recent years is releasing the bowdlerized NFU stuff on a normal label. That stuff was supposed to live in people's personal dark. "NFU" itself comes from "Not For Use", a stamp put on master tapes at Capitol that arent supposed to be released.

So, in a kindly but pretty pissed-off way, let me direct your attention to Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, Paul Simon, Will Sexton, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townsend, Conor Oberst, Warren Zevon, Billy Bragg, Bruce Cockburn, Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Bob Schneider, Bob Dylan, Laila Downs, Elvis Costello, Pete Yorn, and a host of other people who are actually in the business of doing what you seem to want me to do. There are plenty of guys and gals out there strumming guitars and doing their version of "telling it like it is" for fun and profit. And sometimes I do that too.

But, I'll tell you the biggest turn off about that whole troubador life, aside from the endless hypocrisy and the shitty hours. People think they own a piece of you, cause you shared yourself for awhile. Others want to kill you for the same reason. Often, theyre the same people.