Hello nice, curious person!
“From the Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew T. Schindler” is tantamount to a songwriting journal mixed with commentary on our times.
The author/auteur is Faux Jean, a songwriter from Duluth, Minnesota (born Matthew T. Schindler, 1969) who now lives close to the border of Mexico.
Under this fake guise of a singing cowboy1, he posts a new song every week to an evolving album series on Bandcamp and talks about it here.
Sometimes it’s a proper essay related to the song, sometimes it’s an off-the-cuff video about Dumb Donald inspired by the song.
What is a song, anyway?
A song is an idea—an attempt to make sense of time through an arrangement of vibrations. That’s all.
If you can dance to it, all the better.
Join the Faux crew and you too could have an honorary fake name!
Sign up and see how one person’s attempt to lead the poetic existence is going.
I remain your humble servant,
OX&C,
Faux Jean
Faux Jean’s dear Mother, Carmen, was enamored with Gene Autry (the real Gene?) as a child, and helped Faux Jean realize, as his hair began to resemble salt and pepper, that a character aimed at kids aged 9-14 might help him circumnavigate the traditional machinery of music marketing to speak to the youth of the world. If old timers get on board, all the better.
