Hey, the times they are a-changin' here, so here is some streaming (and higher quality) versions of all your favorite Gunshy songs, the official ReverbNation.com page for Gunshy Army. Yeah, Gunshy Army.

Here's the Gunshy Army Facebook Page.

And the brand-new Gunshy Army Myspace page... once again, like anybody uses Myspace. However, they have raised the file size limit to 50MB... so you can hear a waaaaay better-sounding version of the 24-minute epic Something For Nothing there. Yay!

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Hey there. How's it goin'? Welcome to the fucking party.

Just wanted to remind everybody to check out "Blow Up The Sun" because I can't delete audio submissions anymore, apparently, and it's slipped off my front page, here. And hey while you're at it why not give "Waiting to Die" a listen as well. It's a fucking classic, here.

So... what I've done so far, artistically, in this life: 22 short stories, three novels, two novellas, one play, one film script (for one of the novels), one book of poetry, and 8 albums worth of music and lyrics (over 100 songs in all).

Nuts. The books and stories you can find here, at Lulu.com, or what's left of it.

And yes... still what's to come, hopefully before the zombie apocalypse or i die: another album, with 16 or 17 songs. craziness. you've heard 5 of them already, right? but they'll sound way better this time around. that's the big idea. everything will be better, faster, stronger. okay, one or two songs are getting slowed down just a little bit. i can't lie to you, newgrounds :) also there'll hopefully be another novel (the one with the immortal guy) and then another after that (with this girl skipping across parallel realities), as well as what i'm hoping will be two more collections of short stories - one with stories loosely based on mostly true events, fictionalized and dramatized, and the other with the most far-out sci-fi/fantasy/horror/comedy stories i've ever written. hopefully some weirder shit than you've everread in your life. You can already read "Little Black Hole" on scribd. that one's done already.
short, sharp, shock. that's the new shit. that's the big idea.

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it's on. everything's on.
all of it. all at once.
the album. all the new songs. they'll all get re-recorded. better. stronger. healthier. sexier.
the stories? happening. they're all happening, in more than one universe at a time.
carpe diem, noctum, et cetera.
there is no time like the present. and it is all we have. time... it IS the fire in which we burn.
so i have to do all of this. i have to try to make more happen. the people who love me would rather see me doing MORE, not less, if that's what will make me happy. I must see things less as the black and white, plus or minus that I usually do. life is grey. and we should revel in its ambiguity and its mystery.
even though I write fucked up music and stories, it has brought some joy to others. it's helped people make it through their own tough-ass shit. and you, and the people i love most in this world, have helped me.
here's to hoping for a whole lot more of everything. before the world ends.

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bad news, everyone.

not out of the woods yet...? it might be ALL WOODS. all the time. everything is in disarray. everything is wrong. don't expect much from me in the coming months, like all these months previous, until further notice, i guess. same reasons. everything is upside down. everything is STILL upside down, and i again just want to remind everybody of how cruel and unforgiving life can be, that it would punish people with pain and disease who have done no wrongs and have always wanted only justice and niceness in the world. that one's own body would rebel against one's self for no reason, or no more reason than anyone else's might. cancer. i hate it. fuck cancer. it'll kill us all.

in the meantime, the strong must protect and care for the weak. that is how civilization works. that's how family works. out of respect, and deference, and cheer. that's friendship. that's love. anything else is uncivilized.

so, please send your happy thoughts on thru the ether to my friend thru me. your benevolent energies will help us stay strong and hopefully help her heal and keep healing. this will be a long road. it has already been a long road, and she'll need everyone's hopes and prayers (if you got 'em) and love. any extra love and time i have, she'll have. she'll need all the help she can get. all of us will need all the help she can get.

be well.
stay weird.

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I can't delete that last (depressive) one, but it's not working.

So, I'll copy + paste for elsewhere.

You're all being lied to.

Occupy is a TAX REFORM movement, not a gun control movement. The only reason you're led to think Obama and OWS want to take your guns away is because the oil companies, Wall St banks, and the gun manufacturers (the 3 largest international corporate monopolies) don't want to pay their fair share of taxes. Like we do. So they brainwash you to think outrageous things like Obama's socialist, muslim, anti-gun, foreigner, etc... It's ridiculous. Wake up.

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1) ignore me. i'm used to it. i've tried to embrace you, internet, and you fuck me up the ass with a broken glass dildo.
2) I can't fucking wait 'til there's a zombie apocalypse. Oh no, there'd be no more precious internet on which to waste every second of every day! oh no, what will become of my non-existent musical and writing career? oh no, who gives a fuck? bring it. zombies. double-taps. cardio. all of it. "i want to burn this whole world down." for every website you know of to get music from, like spotify, which costs a small fortune, there are literally a hundred others that are free, but frustrating their users by making the most eso-fucking-teric websites to use on the planet motherfuckin earth. and when you do find one that works great and is free, it either gets bought or discontinues the music service. i am denied at every turn by fucking error codes and slowdown. the system is shutting me out.
3) recording is going terribly. notes to friends of sunshine and roses and building excitement only tell half the story. that once again the software and the hardware are presenting their own difficulties. this would all be easier with some help. this would all be easier if anyone gave more of a fuck. even me. technology gets in the way. any sufficiently advanced technology refuses to work properly around me. you can think it's crazy all you want. so this would all be a lot easier with a band of young fools and a classic recording studio in which to work. but oh, it's the 21st century. right, i fucking forgot. i'm supposed to DIY and have bieber hair and 48 hours later no one cares anyway. right. let me take notes on wtf the situation did, then tell you to fuck off for thinking i should copycat that bullshit.
4) the world can obviously go to hell for all i care. someone kill the bloody internet before it eats us all alive. it's the best/worst invention, because it's brought SOME PEOPLE together, but clearly not everyone. it opens minds, but empties heads. it empties wallets. it eats innocence. kill it. kill it all. kill everything.
5) i'm obviously being overly melodramatic, and metaphoric, and neurotic.
6) i need my yoko ono. i need my stevie nicks. i need my linda mccartney. i need my courtney love. i need her. i can't live if living is without her.
7) did you know that you are being lied to?
8) Dead Island
9) A Tale Of Two Cities
10) your mom

But I do really miss the animated emoticons :(

anyway, some new news coming down the pipeline... 1) the new recording software (actually purchased! woot!) is working fabulously, as expected, but the wires for my microphone are not. this will not do. so, just a little waiting longer and i'll have that cover of "Something In The Way" I've been ranting about for six months. oh, right, 2) cover versions of Nirvana's "Something In The Way" "It's So Hard To Fall In Love" by Sebadoh, and of course the standard "Without You" originally by Badfinger, all in the works. I may even record my weird, depressing acoustic instrumental guitar version of "For Those About Rock" just because I feel like it. And then, of course, 3) my own upcoming NEW BATCH of songs, which all told, if they all go on one album, there'll be 18 new songs of mine for everybody to hear and hate. It'll be awesome.

still not sure what i think of this new format

the somehow still BRAND NEW Ross FAN PAGE on Facebook because the old one was just un-fucking-google-able!
here on Lulu see if you can ALL my books for PDF download - everything from my novels (Godlings & The Autobiography of Jesus X) to some poetry (reVISION, seriously that's what it's called) to uh... right, short stories! (Ten Pieces, with nine short stories and one short epic poem)
merch @ Zazzle.com - crappy t-shirts and posters, clothes with pictures of space on them, all probably made by slave labor in some Asian country - that's just a suposition i make no claim i have no fucking clue, even i haven't been on that site in months
oh and yeah my page on Myspace like anybody fucking uses that shit anymore, but they're intent on trying to revive it so whatev

Okay so i haven't slept yet just to be able to bring you better-sounding versions of Blow Up The Sun and Decals in addition to the much-fretted over bluesy folksy grungy medley of sorts Your Own Grace + Kicked the two-part song that's really a 4-part song... so there. Next up, if I can I'll release it just after midnight tonite, is I'm Not Supposed to Know... the grungiest of the grunge. I'll continue with the posting of the lyrics too, since everybody seems to like that shit, right? Neato.

Links to my things with links:
My BRAND NEW fan page on Facebook - because the old one was un-google-able!
my music & books on Lulu.com - mostly everything is available in CD or print (for books) or for download, as mp3 and pdf, respectively
merch @ Zazzle.com - crappy t-shirts and posters, clothes with pictures of space on them
yeah my page on Myspace like anybody fucking uses myspace - it's not that i'm lazy, it's just that i don't care

also, did i mention I re-recorded "Waiting To Die"? well, i did. the solo is a lot tighter this time around. the guitars are much heavier and fuzzier. and now it's got another little song attached to the end.

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P.S.: that picture? mine. south jersey. those are my two least favorite things, in one picture: oil and Christianity. It was a nearly perfect setup for a shot as I've ever seen. And that's gonna be the cover of the album. :{P

1) alcohol poisoning? no shit. the hell you say.
2) the guitars sound awesome for my upcoming cover of Nirvana's "Something In The Way" - i was able to reproduce a similar feedback/harmonic effect that they used in the BBC studio recording during the choruses (hint: the version i'm doing is 'heavy' not like the slow, soft acoustic version on the album). pretty sure in their rendition the sound was just pat smear standing really close to the amp while they recorded it. unless pat wasn't playing with them yet, in which case i have no fucking idea how they got that sound live. damn you, Nirvana mystique!
3) new songs, right? to replace the old ones? a few are coming up through the pipeline now. so look forward to that. all are going in Grunge, i don't care if you don't think they're grunge enough. i proclaim myself the standard-bearer. so there. the new songs will have these descriptions of the songs that i am (for the 1st time) writing IN ADVANCE of posting the songs. so, yay. plus, i'll post the lyrics, so you can all read what i'm screaming about.

My BRAND NEW fan page on Facebook - because the old one was un-google-able!
my music & books on Lulu.com - mostly everything is available in CD or print (for books) or for download, as mp3 and pdf, respectively
merch @ Zazzle.com - crappy t-shirts and posters, clothes with pictures of space on them
yeah my page on Myspace like anybody fucking uses myspace anymore, but whatevers