Sometimes I'll listen back to old songs I've recorded at 2 AM and think "I should put that one on newgrounds; maybe more people will see it and like it" and would you BELIEVE tonight is one of those times????

This one was the "big closer" on an experimental folk album I put out last year called The Connecticut Hungry Tapes. I don't really like the thing where you save the really epic or sentimental stuff for the very end of your album/movie/show/stand-up-comedy-special because it's a little bit of a trick - by hitting the audience with the heaviest stuff right at the end they're more likely to walk out of the theater going "woah" and tell all their friends to watch your stupid movie, when you could have put the good part wherever it logically belongs in the narrative of the work, which I will argue is rarely at the end (why not drop the bomb and then check in with the rest of the world post-bomb? isn't that kind of more interesting than dropping a bomb and ending it there just for the sake of saying "oooh look we dropped a bomb"? (This commentary is getting convoluted, sorry)) Anyway, I'm pretty averse to making clichéd choices just because it'll make people think they like the art more, but I'm also aware that sometimes the cliché choice is also coincidentally the right choice and that you shouldn't go with a lesser choice just for the sake of broadcasting your contrarianism and artistic superiority to everyone, and so it remains the "big closer" to my album you can buy on bandcamp here.

I've got a new album coming out really soon. I think it's really good sometimes, and then other times I hate it because I've listened to every song 600 times. I heard somewhere that before Pulp Fiction was in theaters Tarantino would get depressed and say that he thought the film was disappointing, and I love that movie, so in the back of my mind I'm hoping that I'm like Tarantino and I'm sitting on something really ingenious that I've just been staring at way too long to remember that it's actually really good. On that note, if you have anything positive to say about my song, let me know and it will probably make me really happy.