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Hello. Today is release day for my “talking songs” full-length release The World of Today and the World of Tomorrow in its new CD/lathe cut version.

What I mean by “lathe cut” is you can play the CD on a turntable like you would a vinyl record. The first track of the album is inscribed into the surface of the shiny side of the CD.

The writing, which is accompanied by music I wrote, is made up of excerpts from my secret novel Panorama that won’t be published during my lifetime. (That’s where almost all the talking songs are from. Chapters from Panorama. Prose not poetry, despite what you might have heard. I like reading poetry, but I haven’t written a poem since I was like 19. It’s all prose since then.)

“We charge into the day and the day knocks us back.” I feel like sometimes these things are too depressing. This one particularly.

On Friday, March 6th, the CD/lathe cut edition of my talking-songs record The World of Today and the World of Tomorrow comes out via HASC. What I mean by a "CD/lathe cut" is the backside of the CD is cut so you can play the record's first track on a turntable, like you would a vinyl record. New design, new format. Preorders are up now at my shop. Very, VERY small batch of these made so get one before they're gone (which should be soon).