1. The pleasure of a glorious defining moment when you realize you feel a deep love that is returned.
2. An experience so rare and profound that one sees one’s lifetime planned in the eye of the mind.
3. The more frequent simple things that we provide ourselves so that whatever the cause of our death, it will not be boredom.
4. Pride so we may ignore our weaknesses and feel mighty.
5. Lust, so we may reproduce and immortalize our character flaws in the echoes of our progeny.
6. Envy, lest we ever feel gratitude for our own gift of life in human form.
7. Indolence, lest we develop the dangerous pursuit of knowledge for its own sake.
8. Ravening greed lest the machines that replicate bright and shiny gee-gaws fall short of their production quotas.
9. And certainly in the land where food is called fast, and fasting is pathological, may gluttony maintain its buffoon presence.
10. And now let the diamond of anger shine in preceding six fold setting, because it alone of all these interesting simple things, feels no shame. Therefore, let it continue most rightly to rule them all.
11. This recording examines these issues without ever mentioning them once.
12. Please buy it lest I become destined for sainthood due to a life of poverty coupled with integrity.

Being more of a broke poet and retail veteran than skilled studio musician, I need to give special thanks to Dominic Barone. He has volunteered countless hours of his time wearing many hats: engineer, producer, master musician and musical composer who performs bass, guitar and drums on many of the tracks. Rest assured the ones that are not so good are the ones I played on. See, I ran out of money before Dominic was able to apply his virtuosity and articulated musical vision to this writer’s “scratch tracks.” I can only hope that the music/poetical work as it stands will not disappoint you.