Michael Boezi

@mboezi
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“I thought we had more time.”

What if there are no aliens, no gods, no one watching at all?
https://boezi.bandcamp.com/track/temperature-drop

Buy the record today on Bandcamp Friday. You will pay $0 platform fees.

Even better, you have an actual impact – no mainstream artist is even going to acknowledge you exist.

But you mean everything to me and other indie artists you support. 💛

Temperature Drop, by Michael Boezi

from the album No Love Songs, Vol. 2

Michael Boezi
#instagram is now network television. Full ad saturation wrapped around nothing worth watching.

I don't understand the blind hatred of others because of race, gender, ability, nationality, religion, etc.

We are all humans but we are HELD BACK BY HATE. What if we just made a clean break from the past and wrote a new script where everyone accepts one another?

Try it on: https://youtu.be/pt83Ism-w-8

Hate Can Have the Past | Michael Boezi

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I audition new platforms and new features all the time and I try to share what I've learned so other artists can benefit. The most disappointing response I get is, "I can't use this because it doesn't have [xxx] feature."

We have to be willing to forgive imperfection if we want things to change. Expecting a new entrant to emerge fully formed to compete with private equity's "perfect" platform is how you cement the status quo.

https://patreon.com/posts/status-quo-sucks-156873522

Algorithms are a fog of disinformation that gives cover to the status quo while we fight amongst ourselves. Distance between us diminishes our collective power. If they can separate us, we are easier to manipulate.

So what do we do to create positive change?

If we accept that no one actually convinces anyone of anything, then that leaves us with only one option: DEMONSTRATE WHAT THE OTHER SIDE OF CHANGE LOOKS LIKE: https://soundcloud.com/boezi/upside

Upside

"There’s no upside when you’re upside down." Algorithms keep us intentionally distracted, disoriented, and disjoined. Systemic power knows that distance between us diminishes our collective power. I

SoundCloud
It's really the only way we should see them: https://youtu.be/gOM0wlC18mA
Billionaires Are Nothing More Than Hoarders

YouTube
Existence of alien life is almost a statistical certainly.
But what if it's not... and we're alone in the universe?
And we're doing what we're doing to our only world...
https://boezi.bandcamp.com/track/temperature-drop
Temperature Drop, by Michael Boezi

from the album No Love Songs, Vol. 2

Michael Boezi
Doesn’t matter what we hoped
The fever never broke
Now we're strangled up in their selfishness
With no slack left in the rope
https://boezi.bandcamp.com/track/fever
Fever, by Michael Boezi

from the album No Love Songs, Vol. 2

Michael Boezi
I use Notes (and Voice Memos) on my iPhone to capture ideas. But I find that autocorrect kills creativity – it's there to enforce the status quo and make sure you never say anything novel. So ultimately I transfer captured stuff to work on in Scrivener (desktop/mobile) or good ol' paper notebooks. Anyone else have good #songwriting process ideas?

They’re just taking all our money.

And getting away with it.