myopic pilgrim

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Andrew from Songs To Wear Pants To will write a song (no longer than 71 seconds) based on instructions people give him. He’s sounds like a pretty good musician with a They Might Be Giants style of humor. He can also bust a rhyme like a funky headhunter if he needs to.

So, would you like to hear a 17 second song using the sound of a toilet and the words “shelving unit”? shelving unit

What about a brief history of the world? it was the world

What about a boy-band inspired song about the last cookie in a cookie jar with a bit of French slang thrown in? certain je ne sais quoi

If she be pretty
I will name her after my wife
If she run quickly
I will run for the rest of my life
I’m afraid I won’t be what she needs
If she be a fool
She’ll be just like me

If she be sickly
I’ll shield her as a shelter
If she grow bitter
of the hand God has dealt her
I will wait until God splits the sea
And if she be a fool
She’ll be just like me

If she be like her mother
She’ll rise as a scholar
If she be in danger
I’ll yank her back by her collar
I must say I hope it never comes to that
If she be a fool
She’ll be just like her dad

If she be charming
A disarming bella
If she be winsome
and draw to herself some fella
He’ll have to be strong and love her with all that he be
And if he’s her fool
He’ll be just like me

“The interesting thing to me about books like Lolita or movies like The Woodsman is making a pedophile, as a person, likable. Or at least getting to feel sympathy for someone who is a pedophile.”

“I don’t want to have sympathy on a pedophile. They’re disgusting and wretched.”

“But don’t you see, that’s what God does.”

“I don’t want to like a pedophile as a person or otherwise. If God wants to, he can.”

“No, I mean that’s what God does for people like you and me.”

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1Corinthians 6:9-11

I was at Walden’s Friday night to play a show. It was more laidback than I expected. It seemed people were seriously there just to hear some good music. Usually, I feel like I’m supposed get people to wave their hands in the air. And t0, in fact, wave them like they just don’t care. But they were having none of that.

I got to play some new stuff which one day I’ll post here.