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Ron Asheton

May he rest in peace.

Perfect Lie

This is a 3 min edited version of a short film for song, Perfect Lie off my recent album, Elvis is Still Alive. I couldn't believe the serendipity, it was as if the song and the film were made for each other.
It's from an avant garde short from film made in 1928 by Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey called "The Life and Death of Hollywood Extra 9413".

Time

To be honest, I never thought I'd do this...
But I found that different elements and experiences that I come across in everyday life affects me in my songwriting which is in essence a form of communication via a sonic medium.
So why not share a glimpse of the process with you as well?

In our world today almost everything you lay your eyes on is a sales pitch. You can't walk in the streets or enter a cab, a bus, a subway without being bombarded by advertising. It's on tv, on line, on clothes, bags and hats. Everyone is selling and the people doing well at the selling ultimately decide what is sold. And I've found this has degraded the quality and availability of authentic goods,music being one of them. It's almost impossible to find anything in its original form.
So call this blogging for the sake of authenticity.

Leo Tolstoy considered one of his last works, "A Calender of Wisdom" to be his greatest contribution to humanity. It was widely read in pre-revolutionary Russia and forgotten during the communist era and rediscovered. It consists of daily quotes from philosophers, sacred texts and Tolstoy himself. This year is my 2nd year reading it.

Here's 12/31

"Time is behind us, time is before us, but in the present there is no time". -Tolstoy
"Limitless time and space are divided into small, limited parts to be used by limited beings.
Divine spirit is eternal, it exists out of time". -Henri Amiel