Speaking of surveilling me, try YouTube: where at least the user gets to determine what content derived from their lives is made public…

Here is a spoof of those online dating videos you see on sites like MySpace - based on *actual footage* of me browsing the web! Order yours today!

And don’t miss the perhaps less interesting musical work I’ve been doing under the name “US Romantic” as part of my “American Catharsis” project. It’s a song cycle with dramatic interludes based around the character of Bill Smith, who is a time-traveling folk-singing US President sent back as a last ditch attempt to fix things here in the past.*

The theme is “Patriotic Apocalypse” or “Waking up from the American Dream.”

1. Invocations, I
2. Invocations, II
3. Invocations, III
4. Invocations, IV
5. Invocations, V
6. Invocations, VI
7. Invocations, VII

And as a special bonus, four new songs written in the past 48 hours, the beginning of a sequel to the “Invocations” song cycle. One of these is a 98% true recounting of my next door neighbor’s house getting raided by the cops.

1. Cheer Up Lady
2. Fugitive Song
3. Bandits
4. Walls of Jericho

See also: a historical overview of folk-singers and troubadors, the role of folk music in the future and the spiritual importance of music.

*And don’t forget to hunt for copious 9/11 references, buried throughout!