(FREE, FREE, FREE) Yo la tengo, Slint, and Bob Dylan covers just in time for Valentines day.

I decided to post 3 of the songs off the album Ive been working on, which is almost finished except for a song or two.....all based on the theme of love (how timely!).

The album is an introspective look back on the love I've gained and lost through past relationships with friends, family, God, and romances.

Ive found that in many relationships I've been in I've shared the common bond of love of music. Consequently, there are some songs, bands, and albums that distinctly remind me of certain people and certain times/events in my life.

To be sure, these songs--Bob Dylan's BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER, Slint's WASHER, and Yo La Tengo's DONT SAY A WORD (HOT CHICKEN#2)--are chosen for their intrinsic beauty as well as their nostalgic reminiscence of the people I shared them with.

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Ryan.

Love, Destruction, and the Weight of the human heart

This next week my goal is to finish an "album" I have been working on for the past year, which is centered around the theme of love--its banality, transcendental beauty, its cliches and revelations. There exists no other subject so often expounded upon yet so incomprehensible. So necessary to the human race, yet taken so for granted. Love is a dichotomy, love is a harmony, love just simply is, darn it!

Love (or the lack of) is the driving force for most of our actions yet it itself is an abstract notion or "force". How strange that in these times of scientific enlightenment and discovery, we can not antiquate a biological code for love or narrow it down to a few synapses of the brain. Does anyone else find it odd that the main force behind whats driving us humans to do what we do is an abstract, floating, mystical "energy", universal to ALL men and unpinned by any one singular formula?

Anyways, I think the album is exciting and Im excited to finish it. It will have covers from Bob Dylan, Yo La Tengo, and Slint. Unfortunately, it will not be released until sometime next year (maybe Valentines day 2011?).....stay tuned, maybe Ill stream some audio from it in the upcoming months.