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A gift on the darkest time of the year.
Dear Interwebs, Because I love you all and it’s the season and all that … I’m making my entire discography available on Bandcamp for FREE! Today and tomorrow, to celebrate the darkest hours of the year I have my albums (on Bandcamp, that is) available as a “set your own…
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Any Moment Now!
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The musical is finished and now it’s time to get some performances going! I have a few theaters in mind but I need more than just a few. If you know of a venue that would be appropriate for the kind of show we’ll be…
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Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Dear Internet, In honor of the season I have made my album, The Antikythera Mechanism, a gift for you. For today and tomorrow it is priced at $0 (as a name your own price sale) on our bandcamp page. If you already have the album do please feel free to…
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DRAGONCON!
DRAGONCON! There’s really no other way to start this post: all caps with an exclamation point. I’m gonna be there with Tempest and the rest of the band and we’re totally going to play some music for you! I expect there to be some dancing, some shenanigans, and some reconnections…
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Flight of the Ikarus!
The Antikythera Mechanism by Nathaniel JohnstoneOur airship shanty! I mean, really. If you’re a steampunk band you kinda need to have your own airship shanty. It’s like how every 80’s hair metal band has that one power ballad. Personally, I’d rather have the airship shanty than the power ballad. 🙂…
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Flyover Country
The Antikythera Mechanism by Nathaniel Johnstone This was one of the first songs written for the album. I was in a melancholy and reflective mood when I first put words to paper. Once upon a time I fell in love with a lady who lived too many miles away. When…
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Dance With Me – An exercise in ebullient nihilism
The Antikythera Mechanism by Nathaniel JohnstoneIt seems that everywhere I turn I see bad news. Every time I look at the internet I see evidence of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: war is over here slaughtering millions, plague is over there insinuating himself into cities and nations, and famine…
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A random data point to explain my obsession with music
This is a reblog of something I posted several years ago. A friend suggested that I put it here as a more accessible record of my experience: In late 2001, my hands broke. Not in the dynamic snapping of bones way but in the dull throbbing pain every time I…
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A bit of my musical background and the song Steam (Prometheus)
The Antikythera Mechanism by Nathaniel Johnstone When I was a wee lad, oh, around the age of 11 or 12, my musical world was pretty much defined by my older brother. He was, after all, the arbiter of all that was cool. He introduced me to bands like Black Sabbath,…
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