We did a fun set of improvised music and wordy rambles.

Here it is!

Evil Clown

Art for sale II

A few blogs ago I mentioned the passing of my friend TG Yearwood.

TG had sent me some photos to sell at shows that I was involved in (goth fests, shows to promote my book, etc.)

Well, I still have a number of photos that he sent me.

I am now going to offer them for sale online.

The second one up for sale is called Drowning Kittens it is $35.00

The first one up for public sale hasn’t sold yet, it is called Ascent and is available for  $35.00.

If you’re interested please contact me and we can work out the postage costs.

The money raised from the sales will go to the American Diabetes Foundation https://diabetes.org/

Get Off My Blog

Just a few disconnected rants as I shake my ineffectual fist at the indifferent air.

1. Movies are just too long now. So many modern movies would be better if they were shorter. Not every movie needs to be three hours long. Most shouldn’t be even close to that long.

2. What’s the deal with not capitalising the first letter of every word in a title?

3. Nazis are never cool. They are always wrong.

4. Why is the back of my head shaped like a baked potato?

Yours in furious umbrage,

Count Robot

Jenny's Journey

One of the true joys of being in the Stoneham Writers Group is that I get to help people improve their work but above and beyond that is the great rush of pleasure when I see their finished work published.

Eileen Hugo has been working on Jenny’s Journey for a long time. Now at last its out in print.

Here’s a link to the book.

Jenny’s Journey is the semi-true story of a colourful, wilful, Irish immigrant named Jenny who makes her way to America in 1928 to build a better life for her family. Jenny puts her family far above herself. Like everyone in life, Jenny has a lot to learn and goes through more than a few changes.

The book gives arresting insights into the day to day lives of the working class people of Massachusetts during that era. 

I’m almost done reading the book myself. 

Thanks for writing it Eileen, and for being a member of the Stoneham Writers Group!

Yours in Writing, 

Count Robot

No time for Experimentation

My First David Lynch Experience

I first became aware of David Lynch through Rush. Rush were huge fans of Lynch’s film Eraser Head. A giant poster can be seen in the background of many early 80’s pics of the band.

So my fellow Rush friends and I rented Eraser Head.

To say I wasn’t ready for it, is an understatement of maximum proportions.

That didn’t matter.

Of course long before that, I saw Dune but really didn’t know who David Lynch was, however, I did dig the total weird approach of Dune. Yes, Lynch has disowned it but I still dig the oddness of it. 

Thanks for the strange memories Mr. Lynch. 

You are missed.

Art For Sale

A few blogs ago I mentioned the passing of my friend TG Yearwood.

TG had sent me some photos to sell at shows that I was involved in (goth fests, shows to promote my book, etc.)

Well, I still have a number of photos that he sent me.

I am now going to offer them for sale one at a time online.

The first one up for public sale is Ascent for $35.00.

If you’re interested please contact me and we can work out the postage costs.

The money raised from the sales will go to the American Diabetes Foundation 

I bought one of the pictures (in other words, I made a donation to the American Diabetes Foundation in TG’s name) this one is called Shade.

Livestream Melangie

 

A few times a year I am lucky, very lucky, to participate in an improvisational musical creation at Evil Clown headquarters that is streamed live via Youtube. The show is then remastered and re-released live on demand.

Our host, Pek has created a band/orchestra with the name Neurodivergent that we (me and DNA Girl the best half of Astro Al) are happy and humbled to have joined.

Eventually “shorties” are made from the set. Where the set is one long unplanned creation, the shorties are short videos pulled from the main set, so that way people can view just short bursts of the whole experience.

You can see it all via this page

Also before the main piece is created, our host the mighty Pek has us create a 5 (ish) minute piece that isn’t filmed but is recorded on audio. This gives us a nice warm up with a short break before we dive into the main chaos. You can check that out here

The show is a wild vortex of sounds. So much is happening at once, I sometimes wonder what sounds am I making?!

Pek also took an ad out in the Wire magazine for one of our releases.

So that’s my wrap up of the first Neurodivergent Orchestra set of 2025.