MUSIC:
I recently met with Berta a couple of times to collaborate to make some music. It seems that our collaborations will be mostly sound sample based, simple, and introspective. I just listened to some of the things that we made last night and I'm really pleased. Hopefully I can get around to working with some of the other people I have been wanting to make music with, like John and Rachel. I actually have this amazing old book of soldier songs from WWI that I am dying to learn for myself. I just think it would be really powerful to be able develop the constitution to sing these kinds of songs. Some of them are fairly edgy considering the time in which they were written, like this one-
II. SUICIDE IN TRENCHES
I knew a simple soldier boy
who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again
You smug-faces crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
There are several songs in the book that are very similar to this one, all about the machine of war destroying people and their dreams. I like them because I feel like most of our patriotic music is a sort of self-inflated blood bath. Now don't get me wrong, I like a good blood bath at times, but I'm not satisfied with the war music that I was raised on. I think these songs I have found are actually more positive in a way because they are talking about what a war actually is and what war actually does to people. The songs are difficult for me to play, but Mylie volunteered to play the songs into a recorder so that I could learn them. She is so nice.
DOPPLEGANGERS:
When I was in college there was this guy that people mistook for me on multiple occasions, apparently he looked like my identical twin. He almost never cut his hair, and he was part of the mid-evil club at the college and would run out into the main yard and swing big foam swords with all of the other dungeons and dragons fanatics. We stalked him on a few different occasions. I bring up this little bit of information because apparently there is another doppleganger in Provo who looks very similar to me. Hopefully I can find out who this is and perhaps a photo can be taken that could magically find its way to this page. Now lets take this moment to add another layers of strangeness.......
When I was a teenager I had this dream that I was making out with myself....thats right. In the dream there were two Brock's (your loving this, I can just tell) and we were in this Tikki hut where we were making out, and there was nobody around, and then my mom walked in and found us. She was naturally confused and angry, and that was the end of the dream. I don't get it, I guess it means that I'm really into myself, and to further prove this point-
MORRISSEY:
Yesterday somebody told me that I reminded them of the young, self-declared Asexual, animal rights activists, Steven Patrick Morrissey of The Smiths. I don't think they are talking about the way I look, but mostly just my style and the way I move or something. I don't know if I see it.
PATRICK WOLF:
I haven't been told that I look like this guy, not so much in the face, but people say that I am similar in style and I'm tall (Patrick is 6.4) and lanky, and maybe a bit androgynous too. By the way, I recommend picking up a copy of his last album 'The Bachelor'.
Maybe I have a punk/peter pan aesthetic going on with me. Last year somebody told me that I embodied everything good about the Punk movement and I thought that was quite a compliment to give to somebody who knows very little about Punk. So I looked up the Velvet Underground and read about Vivienne Westwood and I sort of know some things about "Punk" now. But whatever, I'm no fashionista, I just wear what I want and thats good enough for me. But Vivienne Westwood. Damn! I love her! I love her whole demeanor, she makes such wonderful things. Lets all watch a video about Vivieene NOW!
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