The Long Road Home

A very experimental progression of three pairs of cascading chords over six bars.

I think it works, but don’t know why. The notes perpetuate the journey, but never seem to fin their way home. No samples or loops, just playing all the iPad instruments to uncover the themes inside. There’s a melody here that is screaming for a saxophone, but I had to use a french horn and a flute… Of all instruments, why is there no sax in GarageBand?!

So, if Ian Anderson ran into an audio engineer walking at the end of St. John’s Wood, who could that be and where? Leave me a suggestion. Better yet, subscribe to my blog, and find out next week.

Demand Trooth

Did the really happen, or is my figment acting up again?

Another “What-If” GarageBand frankentune. Listen with headphones if you can. What d-ya think of this one? Leave a comment.

What? There is no trooth? Is there only one Truth? Your truth, my trooth, his truthe, their truith… Here we go on the political rant again!

Opinion is not truth.  Perspective is not truth.   Truth is not personal nor individual.  There is no “your truth” or “my truth”.  Truth can not be partial.  Truth must be whole, complete and absolute.  Otherwise, it is not true.  It is false.  How do we determine or decide that information we receive is true?  Only one generation ago, getting information on any topic required going to a trusted source and seeking or requesting information on a defined topic.  Now – only one generation later – information is so over-abundantly available, people are flooded by incalculable outside sources, and often completely overwhelmed by information.   They mostly assume all this information is accurate, trustworthy and true.  Most is not.  Information is heaped at people by advertising, news media, social media, even personalized direct messages at no cost to the receiver all to promote products, brands, services and socio-political perspectives and opinions.   Unless people are somehow prompted to question the massive volume of data, they naturally accept it as true, accurate and complete.  They believe almost everything they’re told is fact unless something is grossly wrong.  Because of the relatively new information overload state of our social environment, people need to develop new ways to limit, validate and control the amount and the quality of the information they receive.

Demand Truth!

Our Social War

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Our tree is wilting badly, and wants of refreshment.

Originally titled Chocolate Saturdae – think of this tune as Chocolate Sunday Eve…
Ha ha ha. This is an audio flirt with dissonance similar to shadows at the edge of light. Without dissonance there can be no perfect harmony…

But what does the Libertree have to do with it?

Time for another political rant…

The primary purpose of ALL government is to define, protect and preserve the civil rights of its’ citizens. 

Our federal government is intentionally completely failing at this basic function.  Current office holders and career bureaucrats are trying to redefine the fundamental rights of citizens to the advantage of the politicians and special interests. 

We are in a social war between those who value traditional American liberties and self-responsibility, and those who prefer the security of omnipotent government and submission to oppression and control.

The consent of the governed is devolving into the resentment of the ruled.

The American Civil War is described as the War of the Blue and the Gray.

Our current social war could be described as the war of the Blue and the Red.

The Red White and Blue of our American flag should represent

Honor, Purity and Truth – the blood, sweat and tears of our American heritage.

Our blue truth is being slowly tinted to green in the name of prosperity and profit.

Our white purity is being smeared with a rainbow of shades to praise diversity, pride and equity.

If our red honor fades to pink as the socialist bureaucrats complete their redefinition of our civil rights, we may lose the American Experiment forever.

Have we become our father?  How did this tyrannical karma fester in our society unrecognized for two centuries, to only now erupt into the viral wokeness which is devouring our core principles?

We assumed the foundation of our republic was strong enough to support any and all we could pile onto it.  Our democratic acropolis is cracking as we watch helplessly from within.  The integrity of the self-evident truths we hold so dearly is being tested.  Will our societal crucible produce platinum for future generations, or only slag for China and Europe to trample? How do we reinforce the footing of our republic to withstand this storm, and prepare for future unimagined peril?

What is under test is not the truths or their self-evidence, but the very concept of Truth itself.  What is truth?

Washington, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and Madison have passed on their legacy.  Can Trump, DeSantis, Carlson, DeSouza and Owens rekindle the torch of Liberty?

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.  So we must all do whatever we can to deter or prevent that triumph.  “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”  Our tree is wilting badly, and wants of refreshment.

If this tune strikes you, leave a comment. Let me know what you like.

If my rant bothers you, please let me know how. But remember, I am The Mudemaster with omnipotent power to cancel your comments at my whim!

Masked Madness?

Just an exploration of a basic chord progression over a wide range of string instruments. Okay, except the drums…

Non-musical commentary on the masked and cuffed Lady Liberty…

Imagine yourself in the room with several other people who are all smoking. Chain-smoking incessantly. You are wearing a face mask to protect your breathing. Does the mask prevent you from smelling the smoke?
Now imagine yourself as a smoker. An incessant chain smoker in fact. But you wear your mask religiously. Between every inhale of that magic smoke, you put your mask back on and you blow the smoke through the mask. How much of the smoke comes out the sides or out the top. For those of you who wear glasses or have worn sunglasses while you wear your mask, you know how your glasses easily fog up every time you exhale. Does the mask really catch much of the smoke? How much of the smoke is caught through the mask?

Particles of cigarette smoke can be measured at 100 to 250 nanometers. Particles of coronavirus are measured at 50 to 200 nanometers. They are similar in size. If wearing a face mask does not protect me from your smoke or you from my smoke, how much does mask-wearing prevent or protect from coronavirus particles? Not much at all. For those who object by claiming this is not a scientific study, I say, “You’re right!” It’s just common sense…

Not only does wearing a cloth or paper mask do very little to provide protection for the wearer or those around them, but it acts as a retainer and an amplifier of much of what the respiratory system is trying to expel. Much of the exhaled moisture and bacteria are retained and repeatedly re-inhaled. Is this healthy? Try taking a hose from the exhaust pipe of your car, and feed 90 percent of that back into the intake of your engine. How well does your car run that way? ( Yes, that’s how most anti-smog systems have worked for the past 50 years, but with a lower portion of recirculated exhaust. )

Why is mask-wearing the virtue signal of the neo left? Why are younger and typically more liberal adults more likely to proudly and voluntarily wear a face mask in public, yet more conservative and typically older people are resistant to wear masks at all, let alone in public? Why does the older more conservative generation intuitively resist the tyranny of mandated masks? Have younger adults been socially conditioned and indoctrinated not have the same intuition? Are individual liberty and personal responsibility the antithesis of public welfare and societal security?
Do the public mask fanatics simply get their information from different sources than the “antimaskers”? Or do they have a fundamentally different core value and philosophy of life?
The answer is yes to both.
American history is born from a society where individual liberty, personal risk and personal responsibility hold fundamental priority over monarchal authority and mandated compliance. In 1776 that priority made sense, especially to those living months away from the monarch in a very different environment. But in today’s 2021 society we are drastically more densely populated, and the day-to-day activities of the average person are radically more complex and interactive than those of colonial America. Does such a more complex and congested society necessitate that the needs and desires of the many supersede those of the few? Are freedom and liberty truly natural civil rights, or merely Jeffersonian ideals? In other words, as our society becomes more crowded and complex, must socialism naturally overtake individualism? Do the rights of society grow stronger or more vital than those of the individual as populations grow? Are the rights of the individual subverted or superseded by the rights of the society as the community grows larger?
Does my right to swing my fist really end that the tip of your nose? Or does it end at where you feel threatened that I might be able to reach your nose?

Mail to the Chief

Thank You President Donald Trump!

Hail to the Chief is the de facto theme song of the American Presidency. This is my miniature parody of the end of this Presidency. To thank President Trump yourself, send a quick postcard. ( Really, remember postcards? )
This can take less than 60 seconds and cost 35 cents. Copy this address.


President Donald Trump
The Trump Organization
Trump Towers
725 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10022


Mail to the Chief!


Sending this postcard was not my original idea. It was the suggestion of Dr. Sebastian Gorka on his daily America First radio show and podcast. Thank you to Dr. Gorka for the address and suggestion. Sebastian Gorka https://www.sebgorka.com/

This tune depicts an American colonial Fife and Drum corps performing a tribute to their beloved President. To learn more about the origins and founding principals of our country, read the final report from President Trump’s 1776 Commission.