“It’s like a Deep Trip-Hop DJ set from an opium den in LibPar.”
–NeemaV
SONG PLAYER:
This album is one long song called “The Long Tail.”
It’s the soundtrack to an imaginary film.
The album is called Soundtrack to The Long Tail.
Run Time: 60 minutes.
Release Date: June 5, 2019. That’s less than 72 hours after last album. And yes I slept. But I worked on this every waking moment. Whee!
Download PDF of lyrics and liner notes
Michael W. Dean: Music, words
Phil Wormuth: Voice.
LYRICS:
The Long Tail
I got a long tail!
I got a long tail!
I’m a survivor in the do-it-yourself trench wars going back to old punk rock.
I’ll even show you how, when I’m not too distracted
disseminating art in 100 directions at once.
While simultaneously focused as a laser where need be.
From DC to Frisko, to Berlin,…stuck standing in line at many post offices,
every day, for decades, sending out my merch.
My art.
Music, words, movies, more.
T-shirts. Stickers. Buttons.
It’s how we live in your life just a little.
Even wrote books in line. And proofed books.
No one proofs, they all just wanna write.
Everyone in your favorite café
is writing a screenplay.
But they’re never editing a screenplay.
That’s why their work is never made.
Also, they’re waiting for permission.
We just did it.
From WJWK, to
the one-stop sheep shop in my bedroom,
to BipTunia.
To Intergalactic Prairie Studio, and Purple Monkey Studio
I got a long tail!
I got a long tail!
It’s a long luxurious tail, the twinkling little part of the
new economic charts,
the far right part of the X axis, that goes on forever.
Where all the millions of us who each sell a few, outsell the dozens who sell millions.
It’s where we live.
And now just give it away too.
I got a long tail!
I got a long tail!
It reaches to Alpha-Centauri. And to the future.
And to dino rider past.
(DynaWriter past)
Touch it, bolt in, come along for the ride.
ALBUM ART (click for large):
Download album as one file HERE.
Two questions (1) what’s this film about and (2) did you actually write and/or edit its screen play?
It’s an imaginary movie.
I have directed / written some films though:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1543780/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
but films are so much more crazy-making than music.
Are you the maths guy? If so, I know a cool thing about maths and screenplays.
Wait … you know about me? Yeah I’m the guy who coined more than 15,000 new words for large numbers. (I’m not being hyperbolic)
I googled you.
Josh from Blair Witch Project told me his friend said that “screenwriting is poetry over math. And if it’s done right, you don’t see the math.”