That Great State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNJPjDnLNqE

18 years attempting to produce the perfect album. Never did it. However, my son's eyes lit up when he heard our voices and keyboard hits show up on the computer, so I wrote, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered this in about 18 hours to show him what he can do. 45 minutes for the video using some B-roll.

Is it art? I don't know. I also don't think I care anymore. And I think that might be this song's general theme.

After years of attaching an idea of redemption to my songs, over stories & people that were long gone, I don't think I could have ever released them. Because then it would have been all over.

Now, I think I'm overjoyed to exist in some corner of the internet, for all time. Where someone might find this C grade video and have the song ear worm them. Maybe exist in their minds for some time. A blip on the great intelligent machine's crawling of all known information.

And you know what? It'll be just fine.

Mental Diuretic (It'll Be Just Fine) I'm just happy to have this song exist in some random space in the corner of the internet, probably forever. Maybe nobody hears it, maybe some day a few peop...

The 'Fire Dog' as I call him. Followed us up the side of a volcano just to snack on some marshmallows... remembering this picture at just about 8 years old now. Brings back memories of some fond homecomings.

Got a stomach bug [or maybe worse] and laid low in a cot by the window here for a few days. A nice place to recoup.

Out in Iceland where some of that fantasy stuff was shot...

Out somewhere undetermined in that great American landscape

Arizona Smog outside of Antelope Canyon, Arizona

‘That Fragile Seattle Sun’ – Seattle, Washington – Chihuly Garden and Glass
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It was just some as***le behind a curtain.

This is the first in what hopes to become a story with an indefinite end - entitled "Paradise Obsessive." This item features in the form of the incomplete introduction to a forth coming song by That Great State serving as the backing track to a 2 minute back story musing on the featured image. Serving as the first piece in what will become an ever-growing look through the stories we choose to weave - and how.
Only 10 have been minted. But more accessible ones in larger mints will follow.
Each will be an image or video, with unlockable content featuring a piece of the unfolding story told by That Great State through , , or . It will question the importance of knowing or "owning" the whole story. Are some pieces of information more important or . Can we or should we know the whole story? How does that inform our world? Should we collect knowledge and understanding? When does it become Obsessive?

Not a beach. Yes we are real people; a decade ago.

Hello all, I have just minted my first Non-Fungible Token on , link is below. Buying or not, I would really appreciate a follow on any of my other socials. My Instagram will give you a better idea of where the series is headed and I'd like to get closer to the community.
https://www.instagram.com/thatgreatstate/
https://twitter.com/ThatGreatState
This is the first in what hopes to become a story with an indefinite end - entitled "Paradise Obsessive." This item features unlock-able content in the form of the incomplete introduction to a forth coming song by That Great State serving as the backing track to a 2 minute back story musing on the featured image. Serving as the first piece in what will become an ever-growing look through the stories we choose to weave - and how.
Only 10 have been minted. But more accessible ones in larger mints will follow.
Each Token will be an image or video, with unlockable content featuring a piece of the unfolding story told by That Great State through words, music, or video. It will question the importance of knowing or "owning" the whole story. Are some pieces of information more important or "rare." Can we or should we know the whole story? How does that inform our world? Should we collect knowledge and understanding? When does it become Paradise Obsessive?

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