Took me years to come up with this: "Fond I'm of Sondheim"

A D A/C# Bm I didn't really plan to leave you A D A/C# Bm Though you'd admit I've hardly even seen you. E F# I hadn't even been you E F# not yet [...] F#-7 Bm7 It's these stolen years, F#-7 Bm Em Watching you feel my tears. A F#m I won't surrender A F#m Till you hold me tender

The video has a slightly different meaning to the album, but it's self-explanatory. Adding The Taliban! was an idea I got from the news, but Golriz came up with the idea. She thinks I'm funny: that's what she likes about me. Dawn is a Britten transcription. Yes, it's available: look at my portfolio. Something for MPL to publish. The other three interludes require multiple guitars. Imperfect Love is the official homage to Taylor Swift. After Midnight is an improvisation I

She's a friend of Sir Paul, so it's essentially an audition. That was true of the Beatles covers as well. It'll probably just be an EP.

This thing that was previously classed as psychic has more to do with the physical. All these intrusive thoughts and visions are about knowing bodies, not minds alone. It comes with physical sensations, so it's not just some mental exercise. In our case, we all have our music, which tells us a lot about other people's bodies. - With rare exceptions, the McCartney/McGlashan visions are closed-eye visuals. My ancestor was overwriting my reality. As I said, the mental image

After Salina Fisher stalking me caused an overdose, I refuse to write notated music. I had to force them not to alter any notes in my String Quartet, which is the result of a strong causal link between NZSM staff insulting me and suicidal ideations. As far as I'm concerned, attempting to alter my sheet music during the process is tantamount to deliberately sabotaging my music. You don't understand my idiom, so shut up and leave me to write in peace. - Why are the CIA and

Stop asking about The Perfumed Garden. The answer is no, I'm making a stage piece. Taylor owns her movies, or she wouldn't be discussing Imagine Multimedia with us. You'd love to front like you own Mx. Swift and the Beatles, but you don't. My cease and desist letters from 2024 still apply in 2026. Read them and stop.

Working for Each Other couldn't have existed before AI. The songs are entirely human, and I wrote the incidental music. - Seems like sour grapes: Disney and Pixar are going down the tubes in terms of quality, while Paul and I made a decent animated film on a budget of under $50,000. Probably under $10,000. The Queer Fantasia/Transtasia only cost a few thousand too. - It's not like we made a scripted movie and pretended as if the animation was human. The film was experim

It's straightforward: no, you can't force me to be Tina. No matter what you think I should do, I'm not going to do that. Grow up. Accept me as a director and tolerate that my script isn't available. - By my count, I've made two separate 20-hour documentary series and two features while you cunts have been attempting to make one movie. Those features are why Hollywood A-listers are lining up to work with me. If you'd come up with The Dakumentary, perhaps you'd be on thei

It relies on a mix of AI, keyframe animation in Adobe Premiere + live film of my guitar, so it's not entirely animated by AI. Nevertheless, that's how it felt to watch it. Sir Peter and I have always used AI subtly, rather than all this Hollywood/Bollywood stuff that I'm reading about.

Playing tune detective: I think that it's Paul and George doing the verse from 'I must be sure.' In general, John wasn't up to much as a singer and had a finicky voice in the early days. Yoko improved his voice.

I'm pointing the finger. It seems like there's war machine people attempting to dictate what Taylor should say or do. For example, she's strongly pro-Iran, pro-Palestine: that's never in the news. - Things like the Eras tour are as helpful for US supremacy as a war film or The Avengers. Taylor's music is bright, largely all-inclusive, and easy to turn into Cirque Du Soleil. By reducing her to a sexualised object, they remove some of her agency. - Why do I suspect this?

Had a brainwave: overdub opera. Beatles Invade New Zealand! is a lot like a ballad opera (that's a real thing).

I read that John set a string off so that his mother would know it was him. I also suspect they used another A than 440hz. Listening to an album in 430hz, and it sounds closer (I didn't tune up for my demos). Paul says that it was A = 434hz.

There's a belief that George wasn't much of a wordsmith, but he's not writing lyrics: his words are more like mantras set to music. He's a good rhymer, but he's not showing off the rhymes like Paul or John.

No, but I thought she was a good songwriter.

G C You're falling asleep, Em But your love is in jail. Got no tears to weep Am Em 'Cause you're still getting their mail. G C Imperfect love: A E Can't make him perfect, love. F#m When push comes to shove, G#m Gm F#m You need imperfect love. (G, C) C D Work is so crazy, Em Am But I'm feeling lazy. C6

Fancypants answer: it's called the iconosphere. Read about that in a Chagall book. ChatGPT: The iconosphere  is a concept from visual culture and media theory. It refers to the total environment of images  that surrounds us—paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, religious icons, digital media, etc. Think of it as the “atmosphere of images” we live inside, shaping how we see the world, remember things, and construct meaning. https://lexicon.mimesisjournals.com/inter

With The Dakumentary, I was inspired by the Movie Orgy, but also thought that a lot of those sequences were worth showing in full. - The most common analytical pitfall for composers, musicologists and critics is to take a cherrypicked example and claim it as indicative of the whole gestalt. Without multiple waiata, the audience would've thought there was only one genre.