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Spooky Old Barn on Flickr.

Via Flickr: Client cover illustration for a soon to be released horror anthology- based on a Rick Hautala short in the collection.

I miss alcohol

“God this is boring. Socializing is so boring. Maybe I should just become an alcoholic like everyone else.”

— Anna Dorn, from Exalted

A bleak and lonely path lies in wake, a path with no purpose, direction or reason for being. Unifying characteristics for that which is obsolete, although in a sense beautiful all the same.  

anyways, what’s next?

Song number 9 on "Organic Discontent." I've always liked the idea of murder ballads, but I'd never really found one that was as crushingly bleak as I might have liked. This song is an attempt to fill something of that hole for myself. I tried to imagine what it might feel like to have done something utterly horrid that cannot be undone. I wanted to try to capture something of what I imagine must be a moment of piercing realisation, when instinct, aggression and adrenaline instantly recede and a heavy tidal wave of acute, oppressive awareness comes rolling in, leaving your entire being flooded with sickening regret. We should always remember that killing another human being is actually incredibly easy and something, I believe, we are all capable of ... to be human and to live in any way that even comes close to what we might define as "good" requires eternal vigilance.