I can't stop listening...to your Felt guitar licks!!!

it's in a world of its own !

Black Walled

alone in bed again.

under your head

a pillow

cradling your dream:

scary, weary, strange

and bright over now

but still flooding

like a broken cloud

raining all day

all day long

inside & outside

your little smile.

what brought you here?

what caught you here 

in between sheets

of plaster?

why can't you move?

are you no longer your own master?

why is a smile

such a strain?

does it seem strange

to be surrounded by

people you'll never get to know?

but you're the stranger;

hiding in a shadow hole,

shallow, dirty, & cold.

please, complain to me, 

although I cannot, 

really,

I cannot help you.

but I'll pretend 

for awhile,

for your sake 

a smile,

on your lips,

in your eyes,

in my eyes

together.

but not forever.

the smile

fades back

into your lips,

into your eyes,

now far away from me,

deep in the recess

of your mind.

I cannot,

will never,

see.

Proto Tinman

    It has come to my attention that the Tinman design was directly influenced by the works of Dostoevsky.  Indeed the origins of the Tinman stem from Crime & Punishment and Notes from the Underground.  Raskolnikov lives in all of us, it seems.  

     Here is the original Tinman I drew in my Contemporary Literature class last semester.  This was probably a better use of my time than taking notes from the professor.  

     This is the cover design for the Tinman EP, recorded live in the psychedelic basement in June of 2011.  The art was inspired by a doodle in one of my notebooks for school.  Right after our first listen to the Tinman (then known as the lefty session on account of me being forced to drum with a backwards kit due to my bunk toe) it was undeniable that the idea, image, and sound of the tinman permeated through the tracks.  Of course, the idea of the tinman is loosely based off of the tinman from the Wizard of Oz, but I'm not sure if this is the same tinman, and if it is, it certainly is not the one we see in the movie.  Hopefully we will have more collaborative Lead Leaf art in the future.