okay, i faked this smile. can you tell? i was walking down the road at faerie camp and decided to try to take a happy looking picture. this was about the fifth try. i think it still lacks sincerity but overall i like the picture. it reminds me of pharmaceutical ads promising vitality of some sort. i do this kind of self-observation of fake states probably more than most people. when i was doing lots of radio i used to record myself a lot, edit, re-record, until i'd get something so overproduced and slick that it had almost no personality, i suppose rococo in a way, overproduced, over-ornate, intricate but soulless. maybe it's my love of the banal that drives this.
about half a year ago i bought a trumpet. i started to try playing it a couple days ago. i never realized how much a trumpeter can influence pitch with the lips. even though i played trumpet four years in elementary and junior high school, i don't think anyone ever mentioned intonation. in fact, no one ever mentioned a thing about theory or what exactly we were doing playing all those notes.
so, tying all this together, perhaps this is my first trumpet album cover.
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