so, what's this whole grand concept, then?

 

well, it ain't that grand, actually. it's simply my perception of things. the world i live in, that is, the world perceived by me, i have named Entropy House. i think i came up with this name back in about 2003, roughly, it may have been earlier. the original scribble that birthed the idea is included in The Book of Dysfunction because i completed that before i realised that essentially what my post 2009 recording spree was about was the aural documentation of my adventures in entropy house. i made that realisation just as i was readying album no. 3 in said cycle, Luna Takes Asylum

Adventures in Entropy House is a series of many albums (borland will be aghast), birthed in a relatively short period of time. this means that they will not be polished very much - to me, the idea is the most important thing. i'm not here to impress people, i want to create and exchange ideas. i believe that the forward thinking will be down with what i do, even though i'm not at my most certain of how to engage with said forward thinkers, since i'm not the most sociable of animals, virtually or physically. so, if you want nice, well produced, technically correct, game-playing music, go somewhere else. don't buy my stuff. you won't like it. go to your mainstream entertainment and live in your pool. report back if you find anything of substance or depth.

so why so much output given the tiny audience? because i simply have to do it anyway, i can no more not do it than the sun will not indulge in nuclear fusion - (are you aware of Price's theorem, 'whatever can be radiated is radiated?' well, apply that to this) so i may as well make it available just in case there are other people that care, even if it's not now, this minute. there's another line in the BOD which is relevant - the more you scratch, the more it itches. creativity is like that. it's the most potent drug of all (well, after oxygen). and whereas i used to think of my creative inklings as being music and words related (yer typical singer/songwriter, though in a sort of pop/rock song sort of way) i've now realised that any avenue of creative expression, if it is open, should be explored, time permitted, and if i don't run out of commas (commas are my biggest expense). as i have to work full time for a living, and help my wife rear our two young children, this brings me back to one of my earlier points - i have limited time in which to document my ideas in all of their forms. so polish ain't gonna happen. this is not an excuse, it is a reason. i'm cool with how everything is. this has been the best stage of my life by far, creatively, domestically, happinessly, and any other made up words that seem relevant.

the current focus is music, because i find it the most powerful form of communication. i've got many drawing type things (abstract stuff because i can't draw actual things - example) which i'll put up once i've scanned them into a pc (see, it's these mechanical bits that i always put off), i do writing bits as well (the aforementioned BOD, and there will be a second volume probably in five or so years, once the unused ideas have built up again, and my world view has evolved some more to warrant a different volume), and then there's my opportunistic mobile phone photography (which mostly focuses on the fucked up shit that's happening right above our heads that hardly anybody else seems to want to talk about).

entropy house, then, is the setting for where monoculture tries to impose its will upon all present, willing or not, leading to cultural entropy, the atrophy of individuality whilst setting individuals against each other in a cult of individualism designed for doom, against a backdrop of a collapsing empire which may very well foil its desires and return us to the previous 'dark ages' (dark age = when machines weren't on), or it may not - i think Philip K Dick was on to a lot more than many people, even his fans, imagine.

Advenures in Entropy House is my way of reporting on the process.

 

so far, in terms of actual completed documents, Adventures in Entropy House comprises of: The Book of Dysfunction (book), Children, It's the Same Castle (album), Dude Awakening (album) and Luna Takes Asylum (album).

the early One Dog Clapping and Lastgnomestanding works, whilst they could quite comfortably fit in conceptually, don't; for no other arbitrary reason than that there was such a gap between them and between what i'm doing now that they seem like a previous life.

 

aaaaaahhh.... outsider art. where you can do verbal diarrhoea to your heart's content....

 

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