Why can't I get this site to show up on a search? Is that why you are staying away in droves? Well, I've got your number, and you need to get here to listen to the new doo-doo, 'cause it's coming.

Is this sad or what? I just cannot bring myself to program the damn drum machine for the latest round of songs. I have a couple ready to go more or less but I dread the effort required for those drums to sound even halfway decent. Any drummers out there?

Also, I've finally tried something I long intended to: setting music to poems that are in the public domain. I can't write without a lyrical idea, and have been so succesful in avoiding the various responsibilities most of you assume gladly that I now am fully without inspiration. I've so far saved 3 Blake poems, an Emily Dickinson and a Lord Byron from obscurity by setting them to Oxford Boy pop magic. The results are promising, but only a full recording will reveal whether I am wasting my time or not. Soon, soon.

Not dead yet! Though something has momentarily sapped my will to create, men have been dispatched and all will be well soon.

Ahh, all is right with the world. After 3 excruciating weeks, the DSL is back up. This, I predict will lead to a spurt of creativity, the fruits of which should appear here, to molder, soon.

Sad as it is, the powers that be are trying to keep the Oxford Boys from releasing another indefatiguable tune. But a week of remorseless drudgery and subtle antagonism has only resulted in yet another notch on our belts.
"Stars in the Backyard" is the lastest entry and I feel good about it. Vocals mixed comfortably low and an unfussy arrangement that sounds decent.
In your face, haters!

Thinking I may have blown my load (sorry mom) politically speaking on the Iraq War tetra-ology. Speaking of which, the third and fifth songs in the group will never see the light of day due to one being crummy and the other being forgotten. Anyway, I'm out of things to say except: "No Nuclear Holocaust, please!".

Yesterday brought a new song: ''something odd". Turned out okay with some of my least wretched vocals in a while. Practice, practice, practice! That's a funny word when you say it thrice. Anyway, check it out.

Another new song tonight, but I had to pull the last entry due to underperformed vocals. Funny thing is, I thought I brought it. I have a spare recording with better vocals (& bass), but it needs an organ. Who doesn't?

Tonight's was 'protest #4', a temp title since the obvious titles are all lame. And it's not a good enough political song to warrant it's subjects' actual name. In fact it's naive and patronizing. It's vocals stumble out of the gate with a bleating reading of the hack first verse yet improves with the arrival of the harmony. Why do I even bother not doing them?

I've been favoring a certain chord lately (F add9), a certain voicing to be exact, therefore a few of the newer tunes have a tonal similarity. It doesn't bother me but it has to end somewhere, although it's probably in my best interest to wring everything I can out of each chord. Two new additions today.

You know, power-pop kinda gets on my nerves sometimes. And it's most closely associated with what goes on here. That's hypocritical, I guess. Some would call it mushy- or fuzzy-headed, and they would stone me as I cast my vote for General Wesley Clark (just kidding, I barely know who the fuck he is).
Point is, I can't believe in black and white and it's harder to defend yr beliefs when, by definition, they are constantly shifting. I would lace cupcakes with extasy and serve them at a school board, of course.