Voluntary Japan

Hard Lessons Learn(ed)(ing)

If your parents don’t try to talk to you for half a year, after you’ve requested to talk, they don’t care about you very much, and never have. The more distance you get, the more you’ll see it’s always been that way. Just a game to vapid LARPers, while you’ve always been actually alive. Were…

For Estranged Children — Remember This.

Amerikan Bodhi (!)

Death is very real And I am the American Buddha There is no enlightenment Only suffering ’til you don’t give a shit Play your music on the bench Chubby little bearded bald man Even the Asians appear to accept you  Chased by the taxman Massive anti-natural state Calm your nerves with whisky No sleep. No…

You Realize…

how bad sh*t is  When you realize you cannot even afford to get sick for a few days Or just  sleep a little more to heal  You can’t afford not to smile — or to be genuine and speak your real condition I must have the almighty power paper — The value-bestowing zeroes and ones…

Michael Jeffrey Jordan

Pop ballads don’t usually bring me to tears. But Angus Young solos, Eddie Van Halen, Michael Jackson, and anyone doing something with absolute…. what is the word for it? It’s a hunger…. It is a realization… It is an unapologetic love of reality. That stuff lights me right up. And reduces me to emotionality. This…

Yeah.

Rest in Spaghetti, Nevar Forgetti

‘Zoochosis’ (new song/vid)

Cross-post. If you like this sound and message, please consider following and supporting my band Nite Owl Works by buying our album!****************************************** Another collaboration (if you will) with John Simms. All recorded on extremely low-budget and/or sh*t equipment by necessity. But damn damn damn. Get me out of this f*****’ cage! Nevermind. I’ll do it…