Standard Issue Ball-Point

from You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream by Paul Kotheimer

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lyrics

Here is a standard issue ball-point pen. And here are the million zillion insects and their incessant experimental drone thing. And here is the music of the whenever, the music of the ever now and of the atmosphere and you can't make it, and that's okay. Or rather, you can't make it alone and why would you want to, after all?

The standard-issue ball point pen is ubiquitous. It can't be privatized. And the million-zillion-insect drone thing may be the latest thing. Yeah, everbody might be into it. But it doesn't give a shit.

They'll go on after us. We're just the opening act.

Here's a standard-issue ball point.

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from You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream, released February 12, 2018
Words and music, Paul Kotheimer. Piano and vocal, PK. August insect sounds by August insects.

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Paul Kotheimer Urbana, Illinois

For well over 30 years now, Paul Kotheimer has been writing songs. And then recording them. And then putting them together into albums.
At first, way way back in the actual 1980s, he used a cassette player and a microphone from Radio Shack. Now he's the proprietor of Pillow Monster Home Studio, complete with lots of musical instruments and recording gear and one actual pillow monster. YAY MUSIC! ... more