Dumbland

I have recently been watching a series of videos either about David Lynch or David Lynch has made that are on the internet. I find David Lynch to be a rather interesting and intelligent artist. He is my favorite film maker. David Lynch is one of the few film makers who understands the bullshit that is American pop culture and can be able to show you how stupid it really is.

Lynch made a video about his thoughts on the iphone and is set up as a spoof iphone commercial and I find it to be rather hilarious.



David Lynch has also made a cartoon called "Dumbland" that he shows on the internet that is very abstract and ridiculous. The cartoon itself appears to be weird, offensive, absurd, and non-sensical. You could say the same thing about who the cartoon is about, which is the average amercian capitalist consumer. I give Lynch kudos for creating "Dumbland" and showing how stupid the conformist, lathargic, wal-mart shopping, suburbia dwelling, supposedly patriotic, materialistic American is, and showing how absurd that lifestyle is. Below is episode two, I've seen 8 episodes so far and I don't know how many there really are.

Electric Feel

I was motivated today and had plenty of free time so I added a couple more songs on my myspace page. By request I added another The Smiths song being "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want." I was also feeling a little frisky so I haphazardly did my own acoustic version of MGMT's Electric Feel.

If interested in checking them out my myspace page is:
http://www.myspace.com/williamcovert

I intend very soon to put some more political and social stuff up on here.

Girlfriend In A Coma

I was stressed out today from the whole Rick Warren debacle with Barry Obama, and I've been pouting about how to deal with fundamentalists.

To get my mind off of politics I was messing around with my brother's digital recorder and for fun recorded my version of one of my favorite The Smiths songs "Girlfriend In A Coma." The older I get the more of a The Smiths fan I become, and I don't listen to much Brit Pop, but I really enjoy their sound and it's a different genre of music for me to dabble in.

I posted the song on my drum dominated myspace music page at
http://www.myspace.com/williamcovert

Most people don't know I play guitar and seldomly attempt at vocals.

WTF Rick Warren!!!

Today I read that Rick Warren will be giving the invocation at Barry Obama's inauguration ceremony and all I can ask is why? Why Rick Warren? Rick Warren is an idiot, and not only an idiot, but he's scary. He is out of his mind. I am fucking sick and tired of these evangelical bastards who think they have some moral superiority over the rest of us.

I've had it with these evangelicals trying to get political influence and trying to control and determine our morals in an effort of conformity and elimination of individual expression.

I can't believe Barry Obama would be doing anything with Rick Warren. Where are all the Obama is a Muslim people now? Rick Warren should be paying taxes up his ying yang for all the support he gave to proposition 8 in California. It's just ridiculous how these churches try to influence politics for their own so-called "moral" agenda. Rick Warren compared gay marriage to incest, pedophilic marriage, and polygamy. He is the Anita Bryant of our time. I don't know what else to say right now.

Here Comes The Flood

Well after some mental sidetracking I had due to sudden and not so great events in my life I believe I am back to thinking clearly again.

I think I'm ready for change in most if not all aspects of my life. I really think I've become a different person through my experiences of the past couple months. I don't mean I'm different in a good or bad way.

Who is William Covert? No one is. I'm not William Covert, I'm a living creature who changes and I'm not the same creature I use to be. It's strange how we use names to identity things. I have friends, enemies, family, and acquaintances who know me as William Covert or Bill Covert or Will Covert. This identity given to me in reality means nothing. I hope people can relate to me more on terms of my actions and personality rather than my given identity. I was named after my great-grandfather. It's hard to develop your own identity when you're named after someone else.

In naming myself, I recognize who I am.

Right now I sum up my life in 3 phases:

1. I was young and had hope and innocence.

2. I got older and tried experiencing the world as best I could and lost my innocence and in turn lost my hope.

3. I accepted who I am now and what my life has been thus far, and have a new found sense of hope.

Now being in phase 3 I feel ready for whatever is next. I am respledent in divergence.

I am very excited to make new music. I can just hope for the best. We begin again, constantly.

I never give my friends enough credit for the impact they have on me to remain hopefull.

Three ways to discover our faults: ask a friend; ask an enemy; recognize a fault in others.

Suffering is our experience of the distance between what we are and who we wish to become.

Suffering is necessary, unnecessary or voluntary.

I Advance Masked (A Poem For Knowledge)

Can it be true that music might redeem our fallen world?
Can it be true that music can heal our world?

Silence is our friend, silence is our friend.
If only WE CAN LISTEN to our Friend.

Silence is our friend, if only we can say Hello. Say Hello to our friend, and hello to ourselves.

Love Cannot Bear that even one person be denied its place in paradise.

Music is our friend. Is our friend reaching out to You?

Death And All His Friends

I've been doing some thinking the last couple of days and reflecting on a lot of stuff. I've done maybe more reflecting than a 23 year old should, but oh well. So I've been in my thoughts, and I got a song lyric stuck in my head, and I don't know why. Usually I don't pay much attention to lyrics, I couldn't even tell you most of the lyrics from songs my band plays. Of all of the bands to get lyrics stuck in your head from, I can't get lyrics from a Coldplay song trapped in my skull. I use to really really really hate Coldplay, I still don't like anything they've done besides their new album Viva la Vida, which I never would have originally ever listened to if it wasn't produced by Brian Eno. But anyways, the last song on the album has a line that goes

"No, I don't want to battle from beginning to end. I don't want to cycle or recylce revenge. I don't want to follow death and all his friends...

And in the end we lie awake, and we dream of making our escape."

Those lyrics really sum up what i've been thinking about. Anytime someone dies young and unnatural it tends to make people reflect. Knowing someone that use to live a block away from me, and I went to high school with, and use to come to my house and me to his house numerous times is now dead, just makes the world seem strange. Life is fragile, and I think more fragile than we tend to realize. I was listening to this Coldplay and these came up and like it felt like synchronicity. It was just so odd that I was listening to a band I never normally listen to, and I just happened to be listening to a song dealing with death and it felt like a Jungian moment.

The other lyric about lying awake and dreaming of making escape, I related to, but for different reasons. The biggest thing I've had on my brain recently even more than death is I met someone who I like, but I don't know if the feeling is totally mutual. So I've been not sleeping much this week just thinking about the possibilities of what is my life now and what may or may never be depending on some decisions. I feel like I'm in mental waiting room, but for the chance of a positive outcome it's definitely worth the wait. I've been plotting about making my escape out of Michigan to Chicago, and now I just have to act out my dream.