Robert Craven Solo

The musings of Robert Craven, anything from explaining my lyrics, history, beer, and other various topics that interest me.

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Some lyrics I’ve been stewing over

She’s looking for a comfortable tomb

One to hide and chrysalize 

Before the trial of her lifetime

Once and for all will we know

Is the heart lighter than snow?

Could this panoply be more than

Meets the beholder

Or is this dance coming to a close

The judges hand is heavy

And the scales have long been rusted

In time we will see

But the anxiety is killing me

Is the end close

Or is this just the rinse cycle

She’s folding a well stacked hand

The architect of a new plan

Her eyes gaze past the chart

Letters and symbols loose meaning

And when you turn your back on her

That's when she will begin to bloom

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Is that how you get your coin?

It’s such a pity to bust your back and bones

While those who sit on thrones from the labor that we all built

Dictate our lives, and we debate their meaning every day on the hour

Is that how you get your coin?

I’ll show you how I make my own

This is how I swim alone, the debt that fills my own very lungs

You’ll learn to shrug it off, I send a dollar every hour to a bank overseas

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Suddenly his fire’s out as the air goes cold Blowing out forcibly through the arches Hovering, overlook to the distant world Once what was strongly sealed, breaking open Mad river man, pull your ceiling down Mad river man, shake your demons out Mad river man, enhance your fortune Mad river man can change your child

God this has been in my head for one month solid

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It has been some time since my last posting, quite a while in fact. I am thinking about doing various topics unrelated to my music, such as random histories of certain people I find cool. I have an album out now, and eventually I will put it online, I generally wait a while on those kinds of matters. Anyway, thought I would update yall

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Wow, its 2022 and this is the first time I have logged on here since I probably posted this, and I never put the album up because of some technical difficulties and I got lazy. 

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It has been some time since my last posting, quite a while in fact. I am thinking about doing various topics unrelated to my music, such as random histories of certain people I find cool. I have an album out now, and eventually I will put it online, I generally wait a while on those kinds of matters. Anyway, thought I would update yall

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New guy at work: “Oh, you were in the Army?”

Me: “Yeah.”

New guy: “Thank you for your service!”

Me: “It was bullshit. It’s all bullshit. You ever heard of Smedley Butler?”

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“I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. …  I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

–Major General Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps

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Strange Postcard

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Luck of the Roll

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The Equation is Balanced

[saying]

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Always remember. 

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Harnessed horse unearthed in ancient stable near Pompeii

Archaeologists have unearthed the petrified remains of a harnessed horse and saddle in the stable of an ancient villa in a Pompeii suburb.

Pompeii archaeological park head Massimo Osanna told Italian news agency ANSA that the villa belonged to a high-ranking military officer, perhaps a general, during ancient Roman times.

Osanna was quoted on Sunday as saying the remains of two or three other horses were also discovered.

The villa’s terraces had views of the Bay of Naples and Capri island. The area was previously excavated, during the early 1900s, but later re-buried. 

The volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed flourishing Pompeii, near present-day Naples, in 79 A.D.

Osanna says suffocating volcanic ash or boiling vapors killed the horses. He hopes the villa eventually will be open for public visits. (source)

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Kensuke Koike 小池健輔 (b°1980) https://www.kensukekoike.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kensukekoike/ http://kensukekoike.tumblr.com/

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Basketfull of Radio Messages

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moon water collages: “Bulb-forming soul“ 2018

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I like it when two of my favorite things are together, collages, and birds. A wonderful visual. 

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New Show Poster Idea

I haven’t posted in a minute due to school finally snowballing at the end of the year like it always does. However, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been hard at work trying to write, record and make new content. I plan on having one new track out before the end of the year, and it looks like my next ep Black Yellow Cyan Magenta will be out in early 2019, trying for a cassette release. I am looking forward to next year, and all of the bigger things that I will be doing compared to this year. Always looking forward to growth, new songs and great shows. Such as the one above^^^. This past October, on what some would call a mini-tour, I played a show at the Mag Bar with the fine artists The Captain The Ship and Elephant Path, and we get to reprise this with them again in January with the addition of Alisha Nikole. If you are in the Louisville area, get weird and come out, I would love to see you. 

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A bit of a favorite record for me at the moment. Usually most people that dig DEVO mention the first record, but this is a wonderful sophomore effort and in my opinion perhaps equal to the first. All these tracks have such an energy that sound both sweaty, dance like, and refreshing yet dated. Songs like Blockhead have such a post punk feel and moodiness. Wiggly World’s intro instrumental has such a strut that I can already see rows of people grooving to this. The gritty sounds on Swelling Itching Brain easily communicate the cerebral pains and tension of daily life. The popiness and hook laden The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize sounds like a rewrite of Wire’s Map Reference, and not in an unoriginal way. Smart Patrol/Mr DNA sells the second half near the end of the record shows there still is tons of energy left on the album even if they are one song left to go. Definitely been obsessing over this record to say the least.