What follows is a surprisingly funny and oddly comforting exploration of how human beings create suffering by attaching stories to simple experiences.
A trembling hand becomes fear.
Fear becomes imagination.
Imagination becomes trouble. Continue reading
One of the most interesting discoveries I’ve made recently came from a song I wrote and brought into mp3 reality, called “Second Hand Soul”.
[INTRO]
I found a note in my pocket
When I woke up from a dream
Just three little words written down
And they wouldn’t leave me be
Second hand soul
Second hand soul Continue reading
More Than a Radio Station
Several people have asked me recently about other things labeled KGOD.
One person pointed out that there are actual stations using the letters KGOD. That’s true enough. Radio call letters have been around a long time, and sooner or later almost any combination turns up somewhere. But that observation helped me realize something important.
I think it actually is worthwhile to produce t-shirts and mugs, but not for the usual “make money selling shirts” reason. We won’t sell many. But that’s not the point.
KGOD already has something most projects never actually achieve:
a recognizable mythology. Continue reading
That’s practically the native habitat of KGOD. Continue reading
Working on presentation for zoom.
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What eventually happens in almost every field is that success stops depending merely on obtaining inventory, and begins depending on understanding it.
A bookstore owner can have ten thousand books and still fail if he doesn’t know what’s on the shelves. A rare coin dealer may own a fortune without realizing it if he cannot instantly recognize rarity, condition, market demand, and location. An antique dealer who spends half the day searching for objects is already losing ground. Continue reading
Something very interesting has started happening around the KGOD project.
At first, KGOD was simply a late-night radio atmosphere — a fictional station drifting through static somewhere between old AM radio, underground FM, dream theater, satire, jazz clubs, philosophy, and science fiction.
Then the shows started multiplying. Continue reading
Step into the late-night glow of KGOD Radio with Late Night Show — Collection #1 — nine hauntingly beautiful doo wop variations drifting through neon streets, lonely jukeboxes, smoky studios, and midnight airwaves from the electronic bardo. Warm harmonies, vintage atmosphere, strange hours, and unforgettable mood transmissions for night travelers everywhere. Harmonies never die.
So why did I decide to issue the doo wop version of the KGOD radio show first? Continue reading