The Taste of Me Tasting Your Taste

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1.	Mysterious Mister 03:18	buy track
2.	Chorus 02:57	buy track
3.	I'm So Depressed 03:04	buy track
4.	Your Silent Song 03:16	buy track
5.	I'm Free (I'm Free Honestly) 03:56	buy track
6.	The Aliens Might Be Everywhere 04:47	buy track
7.	You're Not God 05:04	buy track
8.	If I Were Lost 05:17	buy track
9.	This Blind 03:45	buy track
10.	Flush Everything 02:14	buy track
11.	This Song That's Not About Anything 03:51	buy track
12.	The Other Side 03:55	buy track
13.	Flower in Your Garden 02:54	buy track
14.	I Am Lying Can't You See 03:10	buy track
15.	Beautiful Mistake 04:10	buy track

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The first line on the first song, Mysterious mister, on this album (“I searched oh so long/For the middle/Of the road/I was never on”) came to me after I had resigned myself to the possibility that my art practice, rather than being therapeutic, might be tangled up with my ego in a way that was going to lead to my demise. Nonetheless, I had soon composed the rest of the lyrics and the music and recorded them… and survived.

The 15 songs on this album (composed and recorded between 1993 and 1998) perhaps represent my attempts to extract myself from the travails of the world (which had ground my existence to a halt) by weaving my conception and perception of life into some kind of bigger picture “spiritual” or “alien” tapestry (mostly in the context of 12-step programs). By the last few songs on the album, this intentional weaving process starts to reveal that all it is rendering is a self-referential construction, not an intransigent truth. The aliens might be everywhere (and no one can prove otherwise)… but that could also be a Beautiful mistake.

These are not the only songs I wrote, recorded and retained from this time period. They were selected for inclusion in a chronological book (Misguided home) of 64 brief stories (none longer than 2 pages) that sprung from the lyrics of 64 songs that I composed and recorded between 1985 and 2010.

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released September 6, 1998

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TestTubeBaby Vancouver, British Columbia

Just walked
On a long slab of concrete
Probably hundreds of metric tons
To the store
Thinking about the similarities
And differences
Between me and a squirrel

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