SHRED THE ART ON THE FRIDGE 10/20/2022

I've been re-evaluating my beliefs about personal creativity and self-promotion in the digital age. I know I'm not the only creative person who gets sick of promoting my own stuff. It's nauseating. It seems phony to pour your heart and soul into a project and then be faced with telling the public about it. The public is the enemy of free thought and creativity! I recently live-streamed my band at an alley performance and the audio was terrible. I thought to myself, "Why do I do this?" Is it for attention? OR because I think the whole world needs the opportunity to click on my dumb livestream and watch my band while they're making dinner or sitting on the couch, drinking a beer? I dunno. I've just become used to publishing every musical thing I do, whether it warrents the exposure or not. The live stream was too long, we took a big break and just left it running for fun while I changed a string and ate some food and then we came back and finished our set. I deleted it off of facebook the first chance I had later that weekend but I did save the vid and cut it up with better audio later. It still wasn't that great. I keep coming up with the same idea - unless what you're doing is REALLY GOOD, posting your own art or music on the internet is kind of like HANGING YOUR OWN ART ON THE FRIDGE. It's probably better just make art and then shred it and just remember what it looked like / sounded like. From a tape my friend Bär sent me back in 1996, it's BäRNACLE POOP with Monica (Moncia?) on co-vocals. I often sing this chorus in my head, "let's hang it up on the wall!" Enjoy and Dog bless. -Ed