I wish I had something interesting to say about the Iowa caucuses. The only thing that comes to mind for me is that I thought Obama’s victory speech was excellent political theater. I might consider voting for him if he becomes the Democratic nominee, which would make him the only major party candidate for President I’ve ever considered voting for since I started voting back in 1980.

But that’s a long way off. Machine politics on both sides of the aisle infuriate me often and bore me to tears even more often. This sausage grinder period of caucuses and primaries isn’t my thing, as I traditionally vote third party (usually Green) on principle because the Democratic Party doesn’t represent my values very well and the Republicans are, frankly, Satanic. Watching the run up to the conventions is only interesting to me as a piece of theater; I’ve got no skin in that game.

So…we’ll see. We’ll see.

Thought I’d scare the shit out of myself today…so there’s a new piece up on the Myspace profile. This time, it’s just me — on both poetry and guitar.

I was goofing around on the guitar and thought I’d try some new recording techniques I’d been reading about over at freeimprov‘s LJ — and when I was done, I just plugged in a USB mike to the laptop and double tracked a vocal improv poem over the guitar track.

Never posted any of my guitar work before. It’s a really rough mix; you can hear me cough at one point, and embedded in a crucial moment of the vocal is the dulcet tone of the Mac e-mail alert. 😉 But it’s kinda charming in a crude way, and even though the improv poem is nothing special, I kinda like the way it hangs together at the moment. I’ll likely re-record it at some point when I have a better recording environment, but not too shabby for about twenty minutes’ work, if I do say so myself.

Give a listen…

http://www.myspace.com/poetrybytonybrown