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my new album and whatnot. i used to think 'art explains itself' blah blah, but like.. fuck... whatever at this point. https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/lbv8-w-digital-booklet (the images in the digital booklet were taken by yours truly, as well) The Morty song kind of this folk-rock thing. i really loved the airiness to the electric guitar sample, so decided to reverb it up because they sounds so freaking beautiful when they’re a bit shoegazey. the lyrics themselves are inspired by my dog and being in homebound during the pandemic. just had a lot more time to think about things in different ways, and i just thought ‘wow, you really don’t know what’s going on and that’s kind of beautiful you little happy shit.’ Cherry zigs and zags / The old mill i wanted to do something kind of bluesy because i’ve really been into Son House and Robert Johnson lately. that twang to it with the post-industrial and rock vibes are my cup of tea, i guess. it just sounded like some kind of tacky-ass queer western noir or something. if it had robots. the idea of the cigarettes zig-zagging back and forth is beautiful to me, so i just really wanted to give that a shoutout. lol The old mill was inspired by how i was feeling around the time concerning the pandemic rising, and specifically the atmosphere of my city in the greater Seattle area. i really thought about all the elderly, and i saw on snapchat that there were quite a few people i followed who were taking advantage of cheap flight tickets and whatnot. broke my heart to see because it just felt like, selfish? i don’t know. He’s so sensual some reviews feel my voice comes off too sensual or something, which im like okay. one criticism at a time, folks. and just because im gay and singing in the area of genre elements that are usually sis hetero doesn’t mean that im trying to seduce you through your music. (this also stems from other systematic and literal homophobia i face due to my lyrics, often times ones that aren’t even meant to be sexual.) A picture of you with me i was scanning through my photo library in the tub. found this beautiful picture of my husband smiling from a few days ago. im always worried the isolation is getting to him since he’s such a people person. when i live photo’d the image, it showed me how forced the smile was, and it kinda made me hurt realizing i didn’t notice at the time. Do my friends still dream of Abercrombie? throwback to my first album and single ‘Abercrombie Dreams’ which was essentially a song that was very apocalyptic - written and done during a depressive time. i had a lot of existential problems that i was seeking treatment for, and still work on to this day, so it’s been an endless battle - much like the number 8 in the title. which, honestly, endlessness and infinity/boredom is a major theme on the album, and adequate to this song’s 12 minute length and my willingness to dive into the experimental when it came to ideas of ‘what it means to be for little boy velvet’ and ‘where is his mind?’ Six feet away or six feet under SOCIAL DISTANCING PEOPLE Window water baby moving named after the short film by Stan Brakhage, where he essentially just recorded his wife giving birth to their first child. it’s a beautiful testament to life itself, and this was a song reflecting on the idea of a rebirth of sorts. it also, i guess in a dark way, seems to suggest that rebirths aren’t completely immediate, and mental health is a battle that will continue even as other areas are healed. to be cheeky with the title, some of the song in parts intentionally ‘floats’ away from being in-sync. Rainbow dome does anybody else remember those huge ass rainbow tarp things the 90s-00s kids would throw up during gym class? something eerie looking back on it. almost ritualistic like a seance. i love that. shows we’re a strong generation. i loved that kinda occult vibration i got from it, so i was like - yeah. is it frowned upon to say its my personal favorite of my tracks here? i also had the instrumental hook (the bombastic synths that come around) due an interpretation (with some alterations) to the theme song from the 90s cartoon Gargoyles, because nostalgia is also an central crux in this album’s concept. Dandelion paintbrush a extension of the above, they were originally one song before i decided against making the entire album ‘progressive rock’ influenced and tracked with three on a single stream. just didn’t make sense to me much since im a digital artist, so i just thought. whatever. Yeah, you can cry on my shoulder its a trying time. i love my life and my husband, my family and friends. it’s just been difficult living with depression and ADD, as well as elements of trauma. but, in the end, i dont care how nihilistic and apathetic my depression makes me to the world and/or myself and my art/life, i will forever let someone cry on my shoulder, but please don’t take advantage of my own vulnerabilities. this is just, most of all, a promise to my friends that im here even if the physical act of crying on my shoulder isnt. the joke in the production is the noise tries to keep you away, because that ties into my fear of self-isolating due to my depression long before the COVID pandemic went into effect. A fairie tale back when this was a more ‘prog rock’ inspired tracklist, this was called ‘Window water baby moving pt. 2’ and was part of the creation of the predecessor. this, i consider, the outro to the album, and i wanted it to be something somber, dissonate, but still pulsing with a heartbeat of some sort. Pure imagination call me pretentious (see the title of my sixth album), but my ideas with LBV as a character is to represent a voice that is definitely not, well, good. but i feel that when it comes to telling stories, creating atmosphere, imagery, and other facets. i think i make quality stuff waiting to be discovered. it may not be for everybody, but my heart’s in it, and i love chilling out to it sometimes. i just hope others find the sounds as appealing as i do. with this cover - another nostalgic throw, obvs - i just wanted to illustrate, once and for all, that - yes, LBV can’t sing. but also, he may have come to the conclusion that the criticisms are right, and maybe some vocal training (and more patience in my expression), is warranted. if you give the album a listen - or any of my former tracks - lots of love, and please feel free to share with friends/family you think the style would appeal to. i don’t sell any of my music - it’s all free.

Well, I've been suffering from major depressive disorder for nearly my entire life now due to, well, my fear of things like pandemics or anything "apocalyptic" or existentially confrontational. I've always written poetry since I was a kid, but I've recently - obviously - turned it into "music" or whatever. I'm just gonna share some snippets of my own writing since 2017 that confronted these anxieties. Maybe you can relate to them in this rational time. I love you all. Abercrombie Dreams (Nov. 28, 2017) Scraping bark from an elm tree Videotapes of an icey creek And in the dark of trailer parks Shining with bonfires made of stars Is there anything left to be? Will we let the atoms breathe? Is it coming for you and me? We can dream all we want But in the end, it’s an empty song Streaming on a creek That has no shores for landing We can be what we want to be We were told that it’s worth it, in the end But we’re floating onward To a point where no return exists candy diamonds (Dec. 28, 2017) Go to work and come home Made a little diamond Play it like a dull boy ’til the rocket comes in Copper colored candy skies Not another invite Creeping like a meteor Smog-covered lights antiMATTER (Dec. 2017 - Jan. 2018) Little balls of gasoline Flying in my living room Fucking up all my stuff Leaving my furniture unscathed Thought I was a braver man Think that I could break? And yeah, it only takes one touch To leave shards all over this place VIPER (Jan. 5, 2019) We are here, and we fear, what we can’t find Get rough if you must, your twisted valentine Why does it feel so right, to wanna be gone? We will glide through the clouds in our hand-me-downs We can laugh at the clowns that fucked up this town Not be present, take our dust, never land out, Second star on the right, in electric crowns beautiful plastic (Sep. 27, 2019) we never wanted real why else would we ride the rainbow coral slide into the leaves? they look upon they hold onto feel the burn in the throat in the chest in their groins its a test see the cords on the floor? connected to the source Kicking the Kids While They're Down (Aug. 30, 2019) when you grow up, bud, you’ll get really far don’t doubt who you are its written in the stars and by the way we’ll make sure that like fucks you hard we’re making carpet angels for the first time in eternity so hold your ground I’m not holding back this is my one shot I’m so happy like the jumping we did when we feared nothing 3am in the summer of ’03 drunk and high as fuck on the neighbor’s trampoline there’s a metaphor in the towers falling he was a god it seems blindfolded while he played nightingale on the keys like Stan Lee they broke the universe with one promise they broke the universe with one promise they broke the universe with one promise Under the Plants (and Under the Wheel in the Sky (Jul. 27, 2019) Map like a web and I'm under the plants in the corner of the earth again Wide open eye in a casket on the lake with a migraine and a broken frame Worry of infection in the right and left flushing all the toxins through my dump Bright in the night there's a wheel in the sky and I want it to fly me away Up in the clouds where they're caught in the flood Up in the clouds while they're stuck in the mud Never filling up their cups, the pennies are just enough Up in the clouds where they're caught in the flood Up in the clouds while they're stuck in the mud Never filling up their cups, these pennies don't pay for shit Sloppy Seconds (Nov. 26, 2019) Soaking your pillow with tears in the middle of the night your childhood gone by a nuclear bomb in the blink of an eye wishing that you didn’t have to die at five What’s that in the sky but a superhero on standby? Standby Standby Strangelove (Nov. 27, 2019) All the information that you’re granted is given as much as I can give Our situation that was blasted has been blasted and the levee’s about to give You may have trusted Robert but the rain’s been going since 1929, at least, it’s okay, just keep fighting each other, take a side that will be alright, B-side, ‘That Will Be Alright’ I’ve always been and still have been afraid of the bomb Smoked a joint at 8am and applied for six other jobs today Waiting for a callback Unsure if I should answer that Dropping my shit off at the Goodwill backdoor feel like such a flake but I’m betting I can always make more evergreen (Jan. 12, 2020) I guess you don’t lose it all at the same time If forever means just a year or two then I got you If forever means just a year or two then I got you, forever and more Southbound, sunsetting, all the evergreen something in the way of Aberdeen been here two years pass that exit constantly So much time to work Clocking in at the doomsday clock cupid (Jan. 13, 2020) So many words they get overwhelming My friends got mimosas but I got my martini Such a buzzkill, so I don’t say anything Zone out off the terrace at the KeyArene The needle lit up pink, thank you T-Mobile The wind’s picking speed, umbrellas in the rubble The end of an era without the hour and I’m not so hopeful Wicked witch’s message debris from fireworks from the east bronzing off a silver sky Nothing ‘bout that looks right The rest of the stuff I've done was written after COVID-19 was announced as an official pandemic for the United States. It's collected on my album Change of Scenery, I just need to write down the lyrics for that one when I feel a bit more energy to do so. Lots of love, all!

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Girl tried to warn us with these gloves!

Sorry, I really didn't think it was off-topic.

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I Appreciate You I'm not what you wanted me to be farewell, my lovely looks like Caligula’s about to fall (I’m not what you wanted me to be) If words didn’t break bones why am I full of dust? farewell, my lovely, I must go Blood on the steps and the brass is blasted and the heat is overwhelming I’m coughing so damn much my nostrils switch which is stuffed it says so much about me that I still puff You said ‘help me, help you’ I said ‘help me, help you, help me, help you’ You said ‘help me, help you’ I appreciate you I appreciate you I appreciate you for stopping by Take over direction of the stage I don’t know where to hit my cue am I late, off the clock? wanna share a kiss in the trench while they fight for the bread? they shoot horses, don’t they? (2.29.2020 and I don’t have medical) Spaceship out of here— —-ing your words and misplacing all their meaning is so like me (Half of my blood is Cain throwing stones, the other half is incap-able…) I said ‘help me, help you, help me, help you’ $6.77 in my SquareCash app and I don’t know what direction to go You said ‘help me, help you’ I appreciate you I appreciate you I appreciate you for stopping by Trimmed my beard, what an accomplishment Big boys don’t cry, even if they like guys They all grow as old as you I appreciate you You said ‘help me, help you’ I appreciate you I appreciate you I appreciate you $6.77 in my SquareCash app and I don’t know when to hit my cue but I’m glad you stopped by I appreciate you

I just appreciate that you see it as B-cinema and not as some realistic character study, though. It's a pretty campy movie that hasn't aged well, but I'd be damned if it's still not well-acted (Holly Hunter breaks my heart in it. )

Manos in HD. <3 Bah. What a time to be alive when we take trash seriously. <333333

https://imgur.com/a/iDZUtgE Digital booklet I did for my album. Created using photos from my phone library from my admittance into a psychiatric facility in January, to showing symptoms of corona here in Seattle. It was surreal going from being in treatment when the first story broke about the virus (at the time, it was never insinuated to be anywhere as bad as it is), to where we are today. Man, this has been a crazy year.

You are a beautiful soul.

I live in Seattle in the US. Made an entire album. I started it February 26th and dropped it this morning, eerily right before the national emergency address. https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/change-of-scenery Stay vigilant y'all! I appreciate you!

https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/change-of-scenery The new album is here. <3 I appreciate you! I've been considering it! Should I?

My kinda thread! Manos: The Hands of Fate is to die for. It's near-amateur on all levels, but its charm and atmosphere are one of a kind and genuinely found it a fascinating experience most recently with its restoration. It looks like a whole other film that we've been accustomed to. Glen or Glenda? is my favorite Ed Wood. Plan 9 is fun, but Glen is just bizarre and incredible for a film that came out in 1953, and I do really believe it was personal to the director. Endless Love with Brooke Shields is the pits, and I love it all the more for it. Freddy Got Fingered is misunderstood. I mean, you can hate it all you want, but it remains pretty impressive it even exists, and it's like... to date... still the only Hollywood movie I can think of where the director trusted completely trolled and ripped them apart. There's an obscure grindhouse film from 1975 called Pick-up. It's original title (which has been restored on the recent Blu restoration of it) is Pazuzu. It's one of the absolutely most original and unforgettable movies I've seen. I love it so much, I just have to share it here. Probably my favorite piece of trash. I could go on.

Hey guys. As you know, I live in Seattle, so its been a really chaotic stressful year. Not only have I dealt with depression (four years long) and recently went for treatment. Now, I'm with a sickness and so are all my friends and neighbors right now. Going out to a store, the coughs are terrifying, as is the overall "atmosphere" out there. This became the "feeling" that influenced this new album. As yet untitled, I'm not giving it a release date (although I'm aiming maybe June this year.) I might just share it with a private link, as I'm also debating submitting my stuff to ears, but at a crossroads figuring how the hell to even begin there. Make You Want to Come Home Those Sleepless Nights To Say the Least And then just dropped this little demo sample today: I Appreciate You (demo), which is one of three tracks (the other two I'm not sharing as of yet) that were recorded while I've been sick.

Yeah, but those who are without and younger could easily carry it to their loved ones or co-workers and that's not good either.

Copyright issue I had to trim out the segment with Video Games. Darn. But yeah, hope you dig it regardless of missing the assessment on my favorite song of hers. ;(

To be fair, Taylor has been influenced by Lana in many, many ways, so its more a cycle than anything repetitive. The conversation on artist ripping artists really needs to be acknowledged nowadays. It's insane that legality has come in the ideas of chords and timbre. Edit: in reference to Lana sounding like TS's 1989.

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Hey guys! I usually just kinda post things and wanna let my art speak for itself and what it says to you, etc. etc. But my upcoming album - my sixth in... uh.. two years (I'm discussing you know... taking a break and/or sitting on projects longer. I just get too excited for feedback and want to improve lol) is about halfway done, and I'm just absolutely proud of it in a way I haven't been with a music project. I've even been sitting on it longer, taking my time, and really thinking about it and how I'm going to go about releasing it. I do, however, have an album cover and title and wanted to drop that right now. Also, while the songs are all demos, I am considering sharing one tonight if anybody's interested (although, keep in mind, it be a demo and subject to changes or even being scrapped.) Anywho, let me know if you want me to share a demo tonight, or if I should just keep my word and sit on your face releasing anything from it. ...so pretentious the new album by Little Boy Velvet / release date: tba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6jvQN52pwU

Lana's winning. It's very much obvious. I mean, she got nominated in Song of the Year for a song that wasn't even a single! for a song that was definitely the unexpected one to go with.