My Two Latest EPs

These are my two latest releases via SoundCloud, available to stream or download for free, please check them out and share as you please, I appreciate any support and comments on these, here goes:

OneHundredTwenty (EP)

and, the astrophysically inspired;

Kepler 22-B (EP)

America is not the greatest country in the world anymore...

I feel like this is a perfect way to kick off this new blog, it is important and very poignant. What follows is the single-greatest thing ever said on American television, it's eye-opening, it's sobering, it's patriotic in the most realistic ways, America is not the greatest country in the world anymore, but it could be...

"With a straight face, you're going to tell students that America's so star-spangled-awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. Two-Hundred-Seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.

And you, sorority girl, yeah, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number 4 in labor force, and number 4 in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. None of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about! Yosemite?!

We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed and struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed! We cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chests. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's greatest artists AND the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. And we were able to BE all these things and DO all these things because we were informed... by great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one; America is not the greatest country in the world anymore." 

- Jeff Daniels in "Newsroom"