Influences:   Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Lee Scratch Perry, King Crimson, Anthony Phillips, Peter Gabriel, King Tubby, Thelonious Monk, Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Tangerine Dream, Charles Mingus,Leadbelly, Terry Riley.

2019 (Hey it's the year of the pig)

Somewhere in the area of 130th this year, pretty sure this is my earliest finish.

Recording space still not set-up (make shift laptop set up for now).
Ready to go
Feb.1 Woke up this morning and this formed in the morning haze
Going lick your innuendo
Going to taste your cliche
Not sure if that is usable.

Now I'm thinking she wore a coat of bees

We'll see what happens when I get home tonight.
Got home came up with the chords laid them down nothing on lyrics yet.

Feb.2 Skirmish(s) to the rescue got 2 done I'm on my way.

Feb. 3 Sunday skirmish gives me a 3rd and I finished a 4th I was working on before the skirmish.

2018 Awww, some super kind person bought me rock hand, thank you stranger.
I squeaked a win (#456 or so)
Now living in, West Allis (Milwaukee County), WI
(also know as Stallis & Westallica)

The past year was interesting.
New house, a studio in the basement eventually, hopefully.
Going to try writing on piano this year, we'll see what happens.

Here is my original blurb from 5 years ago
Been Playing guitar for like a hundred years (I'm old). Just heard about this a couple of days before it started last year, thought I'd give it a go. I'm a procrastinator by trade, so this will be a challenge for me.

#1		Trash ss020119l onedone superskirmish	12 Feb 2
#2		Bone Chill ss020119m superskirmish feast word cloud	12 Feb 2
#3		Now You're Gone s020319a skirmish songskirmish feast	21 Feb 3
#4		Broken Arrow notacover	7 Feb 4
#5		Long Way Down 5 mickmeetslieberandstoller	6 Feb 5
#6		Take You To The Stars	7 Feb 6
#7		Hey Medusa or Gorgon-a-get-it	3 Feb 7
#8		Enjoy The Ride	6 Feb 10
#9		Boats burning surreal death in a dream	11 Feb 12
#10		Almost / Not Quite hallucinogenicrealism	4 Feb 14
#11		Hopeless Chromantic Disco Caravan chromatic gypsy disco thingfotalittleweird	6 Feb 16
#12		Before The Sun	7 Feb 19
#13		Angel Lies istolethedrumbeatfromwhiteroom	7 Feb 22
#14		Used 2 B ss022319i superskirmish feast totheleft i msolate	6 Feb 23
#15		Out of the trees ss022319j superskirmish feast wanderer	7 Feb 23
#16		Waiting On Something Better. ss022319k superskirmish feast waiting on something ...	11 Feb 23
#17		Jezebel last call	9 Mar 1
#18		Anjil? @arodee	ZONG Mar 1
#19		Holder for odd time sig song not in time	ZONG Mar 1

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  @psyt Mar 17

  Thanks for the comment on The Bell Crow. (:

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  @cherok40  Mar 4

  Thank you for your kind comment! Much appreciated!

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  @wacha  Mar 3

  Thank you fro your kind words on "Barbra" I think I'm going to leave the title as is. I played it for some friends and they all said the title worked nicely. I think as I progress with the other characters I'll just make sure not to use their names as the titles.

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  @cts  Mar 3

  Congratulations on the win!

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  @standup  Mar 2

  Thanks for listening to Before Midight. The sounds are a fender tweed Princeton somebody built from a kit and a parts caster tele some other guy built. So, nearly Fender, but fake Fender.

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  @headfirstonly  Mar 2

  Cheers for the kind comment on Dragon Track - the B-3 is an Arturia VST plugin that's being triggered by me playing my Korg M3, using it solely as a MIDI controller. Which is overkill, I know, but it's the best keyboard I have. 😀
  
  The "twelve string" is actually the Parker Fly's Fishman pickup built in to the bridge, with an aggressive high-pass filter to take away everything below about 500 Hz. It gets a great, glassy tone.

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  @billwhite51 Mar 2

  thanks for your comments on keeping me up at night. in the days when i lost a lot of sleep over girls, those stay awake nights were frenetic, never contemplative. going back to my furnished room and writing songs after smashing my guitar against the outside walls of a club where a ex girlfriend showed up at my gig, then running madly through the streets, scribbling graffitti on the route taken by a faithless lover.....so thats the kind of frenzy kristis lyrics aroused in me

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  @tuneslayer2018  Feb 23

  Thank you so much, comparison with Shel Silverstein is high praise indeed.

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  @jwhanberry  Feb 19

  

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  @santadharma Feb 14

  Thanks for the tips!

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  @owl  Feb 12

  ps checked out the baby tigers song, thanks for the recommendation!

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  @gardeningangel1 Feb 11

  piiiiipe wreeeeeench!!! Here's to FAWM no.5 (does this mean we start over as juniors or are we double seniors?)

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  @tezzbass  Feb 7

  Thank you so much for your comment on The Lover. I am enjoying your music immensely.

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  @headfirstonly  Feb 6

  Hi Paul - good to see you've been busy! Going to have a listen right now...

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  @dragondreams  Feb 6

  Lightning quick? A bit like this reply to your reply? 😁

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  @lanasolyluna Feb 5

  Kalimba and tambora are really wonderful instruments. Thanks for listening.

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  @factorytale Feb 5

  Thanks for the link, didn't know that was what this type of writing is called. Then yes it is confessional writing

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  @njihe Feb 4

  Hello there! You seem to be doing well in songs! Enjoy the domestic clarinet concertos!

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  @factorytale Feb 4

  Thanks for the comment on my song "skirty mood" don't know what kind of confession you're talking about 🙂

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  @treble  Feb 3

  Thanks for your comments on my skirmish song Too Much Junk, especially for appreciating the rhyme monk and junk. When words like that pop into my head I'm so thankful.

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  @kahlo2013  Feb 3

  Thanks and if you hear reggae .....

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  @metalfoot  Feb 2

  Very much aware. LOL. Enjoy. I'm in the middle of a play this weekend (it's our opening weekend) so I can't take part right now. Checking FAWM in between getting ready for tonight, our second show!
  
  Have a great FAWM.

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  @cynthiawolff  Feb 2

  Thanks for your encouragement!!!!!

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  @oddbod  Jan 28

  awww, if only I lived in Milwaukee 😉

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  @cairobraga  Jan 28

  it makes me very happy to know that there is a band called X-Cleavers. 😁

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  @cairobraga  Jan 28

  it makes me very happy to know that there is a band called X-Cleavers. 😁

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  @cairobraga  Jan 28

  I don't know what that image means! HAHAHAHAHAHA
  
  hello, btw o/ let's have a great FAWM!

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  @dragondreams  Jan 27

  Hey, Paul. 😊
  Sorry it took me so long to drop by. Looking forward to hearing your songs! 🤘

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  @nuj4x Jan 24

  

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  @petra777 Jan 24

  *waves*

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  @fuzzy  Jan 22

  Wow, those guys are really good!

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  @marthie Jan 22

  Hello
  Happy FAWMing 2019.
  Looking forward to hear what you come up with this February.
  I am planning to focus on songs for Easter in this year’s FAWM.
  Let’s play, write and listen!🎶🎶🎶🎶
  xxx
  Marthie- #WOmanOnFire

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  @carleybaer  Jan 21

  Hello!! 😀

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  @fuzzy  Jan 20

  "Cocktopus"?!?
  Hahahaha!

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  @kovbleu  Jan 19

  Hey hey! Hope you are back this year!

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  @zecoop  Jan 15

  Let's go... 😎