stay home by katharine eastman
Not my finest moment by a long chalk, but the stats are showing that this is a good time to chuck out my more daring stuff - yes I use the word "daring" and you would probably prefer the word "boring" but, first, let me assure you that History in a million years will have a very different idea about our music compared to the ideas that we have now. Yes it is very very very important to me that though I am starving today, in a million years my name will be selling albums by the truckload.
Second, let me remind you that I am an alcoholic (non-practising at the moment) and that I totally understand the sort of music that appeals to drunks - I am not being facetious or anything silly - I am totally serious - I know how when you are very drunk you absolutely adore music that is completely brave and relentless and extreme and which in the sober world sounds tiresome but which in the drunken world is exactly the endless lost-in-a-dream monotony that you crave.
Third, let me reassure you that on my brief once-per-day visits to Youtube I am still only getting millions of videos of men walking dogs or sitting in their cars and saying that they are alone but not lonely or that the country is going to the (their ?) dogs and/or that they are emigrating next year to Laos and that "everything" is all Starmer's and Blair's fault and everyone has completely forgotten the fourteen years of the most wretched and stupid and evil cuntery that the fucking cancerous Tories inflicted on this country. Sorry for that loss of cool .... yes, music like this, you probably think it is made by someone who is sweet and calm and rational and head-over-heart - but actually I am all heart.
Anyway, these people sitting in their cars with their dogs seem to think the answer is to buy a tent and live in some woods (where the fuck in England can you do stuff like that for more than about 36 hours ?) or buy a van and live in a Tesco car park (max stay 3 hours) forever or go round and round in circles round that huge camper-van car park round the north coast of Scotland blah blah blah. Me I say Stay At Home - create Laos or the north coast of Scotland inside your home - it is so much nicer, cheaper.
Stop doing the gardening, stop doing the housework, stop maintaining your home, pay the bills until you run out of money and then just stop paying them, become the squeaky wheel, stop being a goody-goody, just enjoy yourself, drink heavily (I will be starting again quite soon), nothing much matters and most things don't matter at all, try to be nice to everyone (I know it's not easy nowadays) even the bailiffs and the police officers and the people who act "concerned" about your welfare. Van-life and living-in-Laos and all that stuff - too much like hard work midears - just stay where you are and let Bandcamp bring this sanity to you xxxxxxxxxxxx
recorded this morning, photo Crawley near Winchester yonks ago, waaay back when I used to go outside
