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The Story of Happy Every Day

May 3, 2021 by Aaron
Production And Song Stories
aaron j. trumm, aaron trumm, happy every day, happy every day leaning latin mix, how songs are written, nquit, nquit music, song stories

I promised some people I’d make a post about my song, Happy Every Day. So here it is.

I was at Stanford, attending to my shiny new lungs – aka getting my regular check up. Oh yeah, as it happens, I had a lung transplant in 2013. July 4, 2013 to be exact. No big.

Whenever I go out there to check out my lungs, I book time in the recording studio on campus – because well, I have a key for life – seeing as how I did my master’s there – in a time of utter privilege I’ll always remember. I was doing my sessions one Saturday, and because it’s lonely locked up in the room all day by myself (I’m not always by myself, but in this case I was) – I went down the hill in the sunshine and wonderful greenery to the student union building (known there as “Tressider”) and got some lunch.

While I did that, I called my friend Sebastian, and as you do, asked him how he was doing. He replied, “I’m great man! I’m happy EVERY day!”

I said “THAT’S AWESOME! That’s a song!” – to which he said do it, to which I said “I’m serious, I’m going to go back up the hill in the studio and do a song called that RIGHT NOW!!”.

So I dashed up the hill and got my moleskin notebook out and sat in loungey fooseball kitchen area in the building, and I wrote out all the lyrics boom slickidy boom – then I went and found a big ‘ol grand piano (remember when I said privilege…that place is so awesome) and I banged out the chords and little melody that became the melody you hear right at the beginning…

Harry Potter and the Ridiculous Privilege – Here’s the piano I wrote Happy Every Day on

Then I rushed downstairs into the actual studio and set up to record the – other grand (privilege!) – piano and banged out the song structure bloop dee doop – then went in and did all the vocals.

That was all I had. But I took that home, sent it to my friend Nathan Menhorn who is an insane drummer drummed on other tracks of mine, and he sent me drums. Next I called my friend Rodney Bowe, an amazing bass player I’ve known for nearly 30 years since college, and he came to my house and played some bass. I mixed it all together and boom…

But it wasn’t quite right yet so I added a fourth verse at the end…and then I went around and performed it at various places including the Lyrics for Life competition at the Transplant Games of America, which I won silver in – woo!

But then a few years later…

I submitted the mix to an A&R rep at a licensing company. And he rejected it! (Don’t worry that happens A LOT). But he actually offered feedback. He wanted the song to lean in to the latin vibe more…so in 2021 (that’s the year I’m writing this)…

I got another person – Paul Croteau – who I know from a music industry Facebook group – to add some latin style percussion and horns. Then I got excited, re-arranged the piano, fixed a word in the chorus I never liked, fixed that fourth verse because I was never sold on the rhythm…

And BAM AGAIN! The Happy Every Day Leaning Latin Mix was born – which I think should be the only version – but the other one is out there so let’s let them both live!

THE END!!

Breathe Me In

February 9, 2017 by Aaron
Livin Is Bling
aaron j. trumm, break ups, breathe me in, dr. thunda, love, michael clifford, n8$, nathan menhorn



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Breathe Me In – a saddish break up type song, from Livin Is Bling. Here we have Nathan Menhorn (N8$) on drums, Michael Clifford (Thunda) on bass, Aaron (me) on keys and vocals. Mixed right here in river city at NQuit Music, and mastered by John Greenham at John Greenham Mastering.

It’s a sad song, yes, but it’s also sort of triumphant and redemptive. I mean, at least I think so. At least that’s what we were trying for. πŸ™‚

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Here’s the lyrics!

you been lookin pretty good these days
you been lookin pretty fine i’d say
you been lookin pretty lonely too
i been thinkin i should rescue you

you been lookin pretty angel face
i been lookin for a pity case
you been lookin for a way to get away from me

this is the devil’s land
a blood wet hand
nobody over here remember the plan
so i keep on runnin the direction i been goin
and i cannot stop until i make it to the end
so don’t you give me any reason to remember that i’m dangerous
and i’m never to be trusted
now if you want a bait and switch
we can do that
everybody knows the situation
ain’t what it used to be
because you caught me at a time when i could not see
and i been lookin through the dust tryin to get my path
and i been waitin for a little rain to wet my wrath
now wait a minute which of us was needin a pity screw?
can’t remember anything (gimmee a minute dude)
brain is breakin down i don’t know what’s true
goddamn would you believe that i thought it was you?

breathe me in
one time before you go
come over here and breathe me in
one more time before you go

you been lookin like a goddess baby
ever since you came my way
and i been lookin for a way to let you go

got a little bit of rock n roll runnin through me
always think i need to break down the way it need to be
like
“if you wanna be my woman and you want me to be your man you gotta follow the plan”
see?
so let me get up around your face
let me wrap around your head like a cold case
and let me breathe what i normally see let me be
let me do what i normally won’t do and listen to you
and maybe everything you say can make me realize that i’m virtuous
and i’m never gonna hurt you
i know that you can see that i done been
broke down beat round makin a sick sound
wander round town lookin upside down
i need to come down get my feet on the ground
why why why why would you wanna stay my way?

breathe me in
one time before you go
come over here and breathe me in
one more time before you go

do yourself and me a favor girl
and don’t push me away
come over here and breathe me in
i wish that you would stay
come over here and breathe me in
we need to find a way

breathe me in
one time before you go
come over here and breathe me in
one more time before you go


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Strong Happy Healthy Free

January 17, 2017 by Aaron
Livin Is Bling
aaron j. trumm, donate life, hip-hop, nquit, nquit music, organ donation, rap, strong happy healthy free, transplant, transplant games, unos, world transplant games

22 people die every day waiting for organ transplants. There are currently 119,000 people waiting.

The above song and video, “Strong Happy Healthy Free” is dedicated to them. In July of 2013, I was lucky enough to receive a life saving double lung transplant, which revived me in ways I can never even describe. I’m forever grateful, and this mantra “I am strong, I am happy, I am healthy, I am free” was my main mantra through the trials of a “transplant saga”, as my family called it. This is song is dedicated to anyone going through similar trials, and hopefully it reminds you that you can get through.

Images from this video are from the Donate Life Transplant Games of America, which celebrates new life and brings awareness about the importance of organ donation. As a life long athlete, I’m a big ol’ supporter of the US and World Transplant Games, and I participate! I was a 100 meter bronze medalist in the 2014 US Games and took 2nd in the Lyrics For Life competition (a signing competition πŸ™‚ ) in the 2016 US Games. Fun times! I believe in spreading awareness this way.

How can I help, you say?

Well there are a few things right now, that I’d love for you to do.

  1. The World Transplant Games is upcoming, in Summer 2017, and Team USA could use your support. If you’re interested in helping team USA, you can make a TAX DEDUCTABLE donation here:I’ve set up my own fundraising page connected to Team USA and I’d love to raise $1150 for the team by April 15, 2017!
  2. You can of course also support the making of more music and videos by me and the team here at NQuit Music, and spread the message while you’re at it! Get the T-Shirt (or the long sleeve version I wear in the video) and download the single!


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Thanks for listening, watching, and reading!

— Aaron J. Trumm

Open Oceans

July 1, 2016 by Aaron
Livin Is Bling
aaron j. trumm, love, music video, nquit music, open oceans, ptsd, stop loss, war



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Here is Open Oceans. I wrote this tune in about 2008 or so on an acoustic guitar. It’s the first time I tried writing with a guitar and playing and singing simultaneously. I ended up playing the repetitive acoustic guitar on the actual record. There’s another couple of electric parts that I added, and then more electric parts by my friend Paul Lafourest. He also played the bass on this. My buddy Nathan Menhorn is the drummer.

The lone female vocal is Jenny Malin, who is now passed away πŸ™ There’s also Paul on backing vocals, and our friend Lacey on extra female vocals. There’s a lot of density in the song, but it can be done pretty pared down.

This song is about stop loss. The woman character is waiting for the soldier to come home, but stop loss has him staying longer. Stop loss is when the military disallows scheduled retirement or return from duty in order to keep soldiers in the field. In the end, he’ll be coming back, but with PTSD.

What can you even say about PTSD? I will say this – a LOT of people have a little bit of PTSD, and it can come from the obvious stuff like going to war, or being a cop, or living in a really rough neighborhood, or being physically abused as a child, but it can also come from other places, like trauma surrounding your health, or psychological abuse that can come from a lot of places. What PTSD does is it makes you react to every conflict as if it were life and death, and this makes it very very hard to communicate.

The good news is, it’s a problem that can be solved (usually). To that end, I’ll be donating 15% of revenue from this song and video to a worthy cause that helps do this. I’m not allowed to say which charity, but it’s good, and I spent a goodly amount of time researching who was really doing good work for that cause. So, to help with that, you can GET YOUR DOWNLOAD OF THE TRACK HERE.

The thing that I notice in these lyrics is that at the end I’m like “gonna need your love to remain revealed”…because that’s so important. The way to really start to get out of being conditioned to be violent is love. And man…I dunno what I can even say about it. Love, dude. Love.

Here are the lyrics to this tune, so you can see ’em and such:

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

been back deep in these open oceans
bad world tracks and these backward notions
everything they have in the world is not
enough to wanna shorten the time i got
even so i run with american forces
sand gun and tanks are replacing horses
and if you come back with enough you might
sleep a little better in your bed tonight

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

i been runnin from my bones for days
lookin for another way i can say this to ya
i ain’t never really comin home
they got another little trick
in they bag o stones
they call it stop loss
and it means i ain’t comin back
so make a little snack go to bed and relax
and i’ll give you a call when i’m over the wall
but we’re gonna have to run so fuck ’em all

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

there are too many ways i can die for you
there are too many days in my life for you
there are too many things I can do for you
what you do for me?
what you do for me?

she been spendin her days makin eyes for you
she been spendin her life waitin up for me
what you do for me?
what you do for me?
come on come on come on come on now

they got me built up past the brink
i’m nothin but a pile of muscle i’m about to sink
can’t float can’t swim can’t fly away
can’t get to the end of the fight today
i got a castle made of blood and my bones are mud
can’t bang my brain on the manly stud
they make me eat this food til i need to puke
gonna break this dude and i won’t rebuke
gonna slip away gonna come to you
but you gotta remember that i won’t be through
gonna need your light to remain revealed
gotta leave this war on the battlefield

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

And here’s the lyric video, so you can follow along:

So there you have it – Open Oceans. See ya soon!


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A Lifetime

February 8, 2016 by Aaron
The Four Hard Edges Of War
a lifetime, andre de korvin, poetry, spoken word, world war II


Yet another one! Here is track 5 from The Four Hard Edges Of War, “A Lifetime”:

I remember this was was more dense in the beginning. It was really an improvement to make it more sparse to start. Space and silence really is your friend in music. I actually really hate wall of sound stuff, even though I think there are times when I do it. This is weird, as I listen, I almost forgot how there’s this drum track that’s all filtered and panning back and forth left and right over and over.

“As silence spread like fog, over the blood stained earth.” Every time I listen, I hear a line by Andre that gets me.

“Yes, no, yes, no…I was the blood that had never seen the outside light.”

I MEAN COME ON!!! πŸ™‚

He’s talking about World War II, if I hadn’t told you (I think I did, here).

This record is so much more mellow than I really expected. To me, anyway. It sort of trances along, honoring the story of Andre’s words, and there are times, honestly, when I wish it would pump the hell up more. Sometimes I feel like it’s guitars that do that and when you’re alone in a studio in the deep of night and you don’t PLAY the guitar (or have one), then what you have to do is come up with something…usually it’s some kind of crazy distortion :)…

Who’s a fan of distortion? “WE ARE WE ARE WE ARE!!” πŸ˜‰

Alright enough blabber for now – by now if you’ve been reading these you’ll know that you can actually pick up some free Third Option stuff, and I always leave you with that opportunity. So…Click THIS for free stuff πŸ™‚

– Aaron

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Trains Interlude

February 8, 2016 by Aaron
The Four Hard Edges Of War
interlude, lin, option, piano, sandy, techno, the four hard edges of war, third, trains, violin


Ok – still going through Third Option’s The Four Hard Edges Of War.

Here is track 4, “Trains Interlude”:

This has no vocals, just music. I like it. It’s ..what’s the word? Reminiscent? Or something? I like the multiple violins. I wrote a simple violin line and a fellow student at Stanford, Sandy Lin, played it. She was really rusty so it was quite inconsistent, but that was actually perfect. I had her play it 7 times. Then I panned them around and added a fake violin playing the same line. I personally liked the result.

There’s all this cutting around, and in the surround sound version the stuff gets abruptly cut from one place to another – behind you, in front, etc. That was an accident that people in class liked, so I actually made the stereo version MORE abrupt to match what I accidentally did in the surround version.

It’s weird to listen to this stuff again, and try to talk about it in a way that other people might care about. You do something like this and you really hope it moves somebody other than you, but does it? Does it matter? (I think it does) Hmmm. Nostalgic? Is that what this song sounds like?

Well tell you what, if you happen to see this, shoot me and email and tell me what stuff YOU’D like to read about or hear about… πŸ™‚ I’m at aarontrumm @ nquit .com for purposes of this. πŸ™‚

Meanwhile you can grab some free stuff at www.thirdoptionmusic.com – just as a little thank you for even reading this πŸ™‚

— Aaron

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Two Trains

February 4, 2016 by Aaron
The Four Hard Edges Of War
andre de korvin, music, nquit, piano, poetry, techno, third option, two trains


Hey! Still (slowly) writing little bits about tracks. Here is track 3 from the main The Four Hard Edges Of War:

I didn’t do it on purpose (except maybe subconsciously), but I can’t help but notice the beat is sort of like – well – a train chugging along. Chigga chigga chigga chigga – CHOO CHOO!

“I would like to sleep, oblivious of the thousand faces of corruption” – see it’s lines like that that just get me. Andre de Korvin is a badass poet!

What else can we say about this track that you might care about? Well there’s two piano tracks again. And there’s some crazy delay effects on them. There’s also several versions of the drum track that kind of get layered. I love when the beats just BREAK and for like a measure is JUST live piano – that sounds fantastic to me. I love contrast and I love natural instruments….oh and then it breaks again and he’s talking “and ivy grows from dolls with cut off heads…”

I’m not sure I actually love this song personally though…it’s so airy and ethereal in a way that I don’t enjoy, but hopefully other people. That’s something to note. A lot of times you just make the music that YOU want to hear…but sometimes the muse pulls you and you end up just playing, composing, doing something that you really don’t even care for as a listener, it’s not what you would have thought of, it’s just flowing through you. It’s not for you and it may not even be FROM you, if you believe in that sort of spiritual stuff. I think letting that happen is really very key. I think that’s a part of the right of passage of a creative person, especially a professional, to be able to follow the muse, and follow through and finish things, and let go and let it be for other people. I talk about it being for other people a lot. That’s why musicians seem to crave attention or fame, I think. Because they want to know that what they’re doing musically is affecting and moving other people. It’s this dream to think of gobs of people having a relationship with something you made…

I still like that thought…

Ok I got mixing to do…

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The Far View

July 28, 2015 by Aaron
The Four Hard Edges Of War
andre de korvin, poetry, techno, the four hard edges of war, third option


Here’s the second track on The Four Hard Edges Of War – The Far View.

What can I say here? As I listen I’m trying to remember how to play that piano part. It’s amazing how much you can forget. Oh there’s two piano parts. I do that a lot. Like a duet – only I’ll record in the same range – so it’s like two actual pianos rather than four hands one piano.

I love the line “..that emptiness starts to fill their space…”. I always found the poem/book (The Four Hard Edges Of War) so amazing because it’s so surreal but then if you look again at the language it’s SO plain. I think Andre’s a big ‘ol genius.

There’s all this scheme programming in this one I think. And multiple versions of the drum loop that are messed up in various ways.

“Awake and drifting through the water…”

“red faces of admirals flicker..”

That’s kind of how I hear poetry when it’s read, in these snippets surrounded by un-languaged energy swirling around. I hadn’t noticed that that’s how I then used the poem in this bunch of avante garde ass techno dance music. I was thinking of it like samples you might hear in a night club. We always thought of Third Option that way. You’d go to an underground club and hear the boom boom chi boom and then some snippet of a movie or something – it might say “danger danger go go go” or something and we wondered what it would be like if those snippets were actual poetry – and original. So here’s Andre doing this thing in snippets – and it’s much different – but hopefully honors, Andre’s meaning and energy in his original poem and reading. Of course we made the original reading available too, because HEY! πŸ™‚ Here’s that:

Ha Ha when I hear him say stuff, I expect the beat to come in…and then it doesn’t! lol

Wow. “I would like to sleep, oblivious, of the thousand faces of corruption.” Yep.

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The View From Lighter Years Away

July 17, 2015 by Aaron
The Four Hard Edges Of War
andre de korvin, nquit music, piano, poetry, spoken word, techno, the view from lighter years away, third option


HEY! For the first time in like…what? 10 years? I’m writing these little blog posts again! Linking to TUNEZ, sayin some STUFF. πŸ™‚

Ok…I’m gonna start in on The Four Hard Edges Of War, which is the last Third Option album, made mostly at CCRMA at Stanford. It’s a collaboration between me and Andre de Korvin, a great great poet from Houston. So first of all, here’s the first track…

The View From Lighter Years Away

That title is his – see what we did is, there’s a book by him: The Four Hard Edges Of War which as you see, we’ve also re-released as a digital book…

We recorded him reading the book. Then years later, I cut up piece of that recording, and used it as inspiration and weaved it in to a bunch of avante garde techno/piano. The View From Lighter Years away is track 1, because it’s section 1 in the book. The book is four parts.

All of the music stuff on Four Hard was created in strange ways, as various homework assignments in the master’s program at CCRMA. There’s real pianos that I played, but there are also drum tracks written in linux using Hydrogen, there are noise pieces and riffs written by programs…yes I meant that. I would write programs that would write music. That was part of the course of study! Here’s a picture of the studio where a lot of this record was made:

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That’s actually a picture from 2013 but it’s pretty same same.

Andre was recorded earlier – like in 2002 or so, in Houston at Rock Romano’s Red Shack.

So there you go – a short post, but a post none-the-less!

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– Aaron

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Demon

March 11, 2009 by Aaron
Bugs, Wine, Demons
aaron trumm, bugs wine demons, david bowie, demon, dominguez, eric anthamatten, music industry, nquit music, productivity, prolific, semper Thou


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Officially the most depressing song on the face of the planet in history. When we got done with the mix on this one, Eric wanted a CD copy. He was going to buy a CD player and a really nice set of headphones, put this in the player, and put the package on the chick’s doorstep. I said no. No, sir, no. We gotta look out for each other!

I write and write in this blog for a couple of days and then I get burnt out on it. Especially if I have any kind of shift of conciousness that makes me step away from thinking about this stuff. I’ve had a few of these conversations wherein someone suggests that perhaps moving forward I should do something like being a personal trainer. Don’t know if I’ll do exactly that, but the thought can give me such relief that I briefly no longer care about railing on about music industry stuff.

Anyway that spurting inspiration (*snicker*) is another big thing when you’re trying to run a business in art. Good business is based on steady, predictable production, not spurting inspiration. One thing you can do is, if you’re prolific enough during your inspired times, you can create a backlog of work that you can slowly release over time in the business side of things. You just have to make sure what you’re doing will stay relevant. Stuff that’s really really current might become worthless quickly.

That’s another reason why performing live is crucial. Recordings and new songs come in spurts, but you can be on stage steadily every day in a more consistent manner than you can write new songs in a consistent manner (bullshit if you’re reading this and saying you can write a song every day from here on out, BULLSHIT – you WILL have down time and you BETTER be prepared). The key though is you can’t be all persnickidy about fresh material on stage, you have to be willing to play something a million times. Have the freshness be in each different experience, each day being different than the last, but also the satisfaction being in the wisdom of knowing that we are ever repeating, life is ever repeating, and that, if you think about it, that’s all of our goals, rather than this neo-christian-british-glory notion of “getting somewhere” we actually just hope to carry on. Endlessly repeating and repeating. If you can keep that in mind, keep in your heart a feeling of just BEING, this just IS what you are and you’re not going anywhere, you’re just living life, then you can keep performing and performing and performing.

But the problem is, when was that the attitude? Maybe if you’re David Bowie, you’re thinking you’re just maintaining and living. But if you’re an indie, you’re trying to get to being David Bowie. That constant mission and trying to become something you are currently not is ironically the biggest killer in getting somewhere because being consistent is the key to growing a business, including a musical one. You have to consistently show up for a fan base that slowly but surely grows and grows and grows.

Somebody like me tends to periodically, consistently, find the inconsistent and break down completely and reinvent. Somebody like Eric too. First being dominguez, then being semper Thou, then being Hericlitus. This is partly about being poisoned by the neo-christian-british-manifest-destiny-glory-trip but it’s also partly about being on a path of growth and creation, which means constant change. The irony is that some of the most creative and vibrant artists are that because of this nature of constant upheaval and change, and thus they’re the ones that never get anywhere.

So maybe it’s not entirely the fucked upness of the industry, but the nature of the beast itself. I’m sure there are plenty that would say that’s fine, because the point of the art is not to make money or be famous.

So all that may be why so much of what you hear that becomes “popular” is so boring and lifeless. And why there are so many things that a LOT of people know about, but most of those people don’t actually like it, and the whole boring perpetuation comes. Of course there are examples of people that break down and reinvent and make that be their strength. Madonna comes to mind. That woman reinvents her “image” every time she does an album.

But there are obviously some very crucial keys that DO NOT CHANGE with Madonna. That foundation allows her to change what doesn’t matter – her hair, her clothes. These are not the things that people latch on to. Her name, for example, cannot change. She, like any of us, would be dealt a great setback were she to decide the name needed to change. In fact that’s the number one thing, even more than the style of music. But her music, although changing much, adheres to a few basic principles, staying within a certain genre/category. She also changes ALONG WITH that genre, rather than counter to it, so she actually maintains a much more consistent connection than if her music were to remain actually static. She follows the trends, as it were.

Whether or not in her personal life she reinvents to any large degree I wouldn’t know. But you can tell that it’s happened some. Her lyrics went from bubble gum Cyndi Lauper style (that definition was vaguely recursive wasn’t it?) to sexual sex shock style to all this Om shanti shanti stuff but the progression was natural and again, she left it within the bounds of the genre. Another thing to note is, she may have reinvented her personal self to some degree, but not to the intense degree I seem to be, for example. IE: she may have changed, but she didn’t ever stop making music or think “hmm I think I’ll retire and become a personal trainer” – well maybe she thought that, but it didn’t happen.

Of course comparing her path to mine is a ridiculous thing to do, because she started out on major labels. Even if she had had times of complete seperation from it, the business of selling her music and her image was never going to stop. We would have kept seeing the imagery even if the actual Madonna human had disappeared entirely.

Hmmm. Maybe that’s the whole reason to not run the label your music is on. Maybe MOST artists disappear like I tend to. But their label carries on. The public never knows. Lest we forget, what you see on the TV is a ghost, a spook, an illusion of light and sound, it is LITERALLY only just the surface, and not the person.

Ok – edit – 2016 – Eric’s old record is somewhere in the ether, waiting for him to resign contracts… I’m focusing on me and that productivity I mentioned. So to that end, CLICK HERE to get FREE MUSIC from my latest efforts…

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