Hey it's the same thing! (beat ya to it)

First off, if you haven't heard the semi-scratchy first-six-minutes-mix of "Something For Nothing" then you really should check it out. If I'm feeling saucy I'll try to put together another six-minute-or-so mix from elsewhere in the song (24:24, myriad sonic changes) but i can't promise that anytime soon. My best friend needs my help with surgical aftercare so i'll be spotty at best, as has been for quite awhile. she was diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer with metastasis to the liver back in november. if you've been wondering where i've been lately, or why so little new material... this is where i've been - caring. She's clear of it now, remission, and now surgical aftercare, the long rehabilitative road to normalcy.

Huh... normalcy... as if such a thing really ever exited.

If you have facebook, go to the +RØSS Facebook Fan Pageand Like It to show your support. I think Wade's a fan... but Facebook's dying slowly, If you YouTube like I do, check out EvilFury321's "Waiting to Die" Fan Lyrics Video, so you can sing along to his favorite dystopian pre-revolutionary grunge anthem and yours, "Waiting to Die" on YouTube... which is doing quite well compared to facebook or myspace or god fucking forbid eharmony or match.com or that shite... Myspace is having agonal gasping, the internet as a form of communication versus entertainment is collapsing under its own weight. and man the whole fucking world is about to go under, because of a series of financial crises perpetuated by 3-12 individuals with more money than any government could ever achieve by playing it fair. let's play fair, next time around.

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The new full-length album NO STANDARD MODEL is now available thru this cleverly labeled link (or should be, right?) at Ross Allaire's Lulu.com Storefront which as you surely know is THE place to purchase Ross' life's work... Novels, poetry, [+RØSS], and man this time... really outdone himself, itself, themselves, and it's really thanks to all of you, everybody, everything, so keep fuckin' that chicken...

anyway here's what's new from me, available for the first time EVER in a commercially-friendly way, although S&H is a fucking monster... if only it were available elsewhere...? hmmm, anyway here's what's brand-new hot off the fucking presses direct to you from god knows where:

first of all... [+RØSS] - NO STANDARD MODEL - the new, new wave grungy progresso-sludgy power pop metallic psychedelic rock and roll album from your favorite embittered New Jersey native, featuring some of the songs that premiered right here on Newgrounds over the last year, including "This Is It (The Title)" and "Hotel NJ" and especially delicious for your musical ears might be the unabridged, full-length, 24-minute version of the new hit song of the new decade and the impending social apocalypse, "Something for Nothing"

reVISION: a prophecy of doom and hope - is what it is, an epic poem of prophecy, commentary, and personal recollections... also has some pertinent song lyrics of mine throughout, some as parables, specifically the full lyrics for 'waiting to die' and 'something for nothing'

Sleeping With [+RØSS] (CD) - a CD of ambient music & soundscapes to sleep to, fuck to, trip to (not that i'd recommend it in general), or use as halloween music for cryin' out loud...

and finally, what i wrote in the middle of Godlings because i just had to get away from a story about murderers for a few weeks... Figment Sage OR: Nothing Artistic Ever Happens in This Place - a novella about kids in the summer before senior year, from the rear cover summation: "5 nights & 5 days in the dysfunctional life of Arthur Legend. This is the mid 1990's suburban American teenaged work week, Monday thru Friday, right after the kids are off for the summer. It'll be Arthur's senior year come fall, and his short stories have already caught the attentions of the student body, as well as friends. Glimpses of his creative and somewhat tortured mind speckle and repaint the canvas of this portrait, by way of inglorious mini- adventures featuring Private Legend stalking zips in Vietnam, Commander Legend on a mission to Mars with a deathly sick navigator, among other incarnations... oh, and there's drugs. Coffee & booze, too."

So, yeah... do i know my target audience or what? Shit, i'm one.

Just wanted to remind everybody that my 1st album, MANIFEST DESTINY is still available for download. All the books are also downloadable as pdf files, if that's your bag...

Also just wanted to remind everybody that i make t-shirts, posters, ties, shoes, hoodies, stickers, mouse pads, binders, ties, stamps, even a fucking skateboard at my Zazzle.com store and it may not be the greatest shit in the world (and again, god knows where the hell it actually comes from, hopefully a nice country, right?) but it's all made directly by me. i do all the art for the albums and books, too. that's why it takes so long! ;P

so good night, and good luck.
be well, be safe, and play it loud!

[+RA]