From The Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew T. Schindler

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There's Nothing Wrong

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There's Nothing Wrong

Special Haiku Edition

Faux Jean
Apr 4, 2023
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found art by the author's daughter, or so he believes
Found this piece on my desk t’other day. I quite like it.

Nice Faux People,

I’m going to keep this one brief, like a Haiku.

Actually, I’ll start with a Haiku, as suggested by my chef, Marty Fay.

Here goes:

Zero in one hand

infinity in t’other

micro macro mensch

Feels good to write a poem for poetry’s sake, I highly recommend it.

In other news . . .

Today’s song addition to the “Mixed Up Files” is a super-simple a’cappella improvisational demo that I sang into my iPhone on April 19, 2015.

Listen here:

I took out some gnarly squelching sounds and added some reverb in Adobe Audition t’other

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day, but this is the idea as it popped into my head, essentially.
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screenshot of voice memo app containing this song idea

This strikes me as a recent piece, though it is already 8 years old.

My sense of time has been bent.

Today at the trampoline park, my son asked me why I do a newsletter.

I said it is helping me to keep the flow of art out-going while I slowly create new art.

I think he got it.

I hope you get it.

I remain your humble servant,

OX&C,

Faux Jean

Here are the lyrics:

There's nothing wrong
I'm not mad
I'm not sad
I was just looking out the window
And there's a storm coming in.

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I’ve used “t’other” four times in this epistle if you count this footnote. Underused construct in my opinion.

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It sounded like I was chewing gum while recording this.

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