Symphony No. 1 – Time and texture

I realized after the fact that all of the titles except for the last movement have to do with time and the speaker’s relationship to time. 1st movement: subjunctive past; 2nd movement: present tense; 4th movement: past perfect; with the interlude referencing both infinite time and the end of time.

(1) What if this happened?
(2) I am now
Interlude: Everything was forever until it was no more
(3) An occupying army
(4) Decades had passed

Everything feels static right now, possibly because this current slow motion car crash leaves us in an endless nervous state that, when it ends, will cease to exist but will never end. My previous works were about a map that can tell the future and a man looking for the missing parts to his time machine, so time seems to be a general theme regardless of what’s happening in the world. Who knew?

Continue reading Symphony No. 1 – Time and texture

Coronavirus – 24 Jul 2020 – Rewriting history

Trump flip-flops on masks and distancing in the most pandering way possible by restating what every authority was saying months ago when he was actively contradicting them. News outlets shame themselves by suggesting he’s being “presidential” now. Reports reveal Birx is spineless. #ETTD

15 Jul 2020Hospitals must bypass the CDC and send data directly to HHS
16 Jul 2020FL closes pandemic response center because it’s a hotbed of infection
17 Jul 2020John Lewis dies
18 Jul 2020Report on Birx yes-manning Trump and abandoning science
19 Jul 2020Kemp tries to silence Keisha Lance Bottoms and she smacks him down
20 Jul 2020
21 Jul 2020
22 Jul 2020Trump “sees the light” and recommends masks
23 Jul 2020CDC reverses it’s recommendation that schools should not open
timeline of nonsense
Continue reading Coronavirus – 24 Jul 2020 – Rewriting history