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I threw my neck out playing a Prophet 5
I threw it out real good. I think it was for a variety of reasons, one of which is definitely my very bad habit of looking at my phone to...
youngtobacco
Aug 11, 20251 min read


The Legend of Mystery Boy
Oh, the wonder. Thinking about the massive tradeoffs we've made in making everything available everywhere all the time. Perhaps mystery...
youngtobacco
Aug 4, 20252 min read


Ozzology
The prince is gone. Long live the prince. You could sense it coming in the air at the Birmingham show . You could see it in the Hessian...
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Jul 28, 20252 min read


12 months of goop
Catching the drippings. I bought twelve notebooks the other day. They are to catch my drippings, and keep my face out of my phone. I'm a...
youngtobacco
Jul 21, 20252 min read


Hot dog bun, my sister's a nun
Old trees just grow stronger, and old rivers grow wilder every day. This week I recommend... Wenches - Stupid Sick Get your digital,...
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Jul 14, 20252 min read


God damn the sun
Smoky haze of post-Independence Day hanging in the air with headaches, lethargy, puffy eyes. Like LA 1989. Meditating, I went somewhere....
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Jul 7, 20251 min read


I thought I would feel different about dying
Sent a song, again Muscle on the bone. This time not from a person but from the out-there. They don't come ready-made or in kits. They...
youngtobacco
Jun 30, 20252 min read


Ohio-ness, and the struggle of keeping a band together
I had written a blog in this space and decided that I didn't care for what I had written, so enjoy this photo of my 33 1/3rd books in...
youngtobacco
Jun 23, 20251 min read


A list of regards
Chip off the ol' block. 10 AM. Regarding Father's Day.... When I was young, I never thought I'd be a dad. Now that I am, I can never...
youngtobacco
Jun 16, 20252 min read


Sent a song
11:12 AM Sent a song. I listen to it directly from the messaging app 3, 4, 5 times, because if I download it to my phone I have no idea...
youngtobacco
Jun 9, 20253 min read


Maybe I need an unstructured blazer
Story + process + artifact. Anything less is a cheap tchotchke. 11:44AM This journal sometimes loses track of what it wants to be. It...
youngtobacco
Jun 2, 20252 min read


This long weekend also contains my birthday
Gonna take it easy and so should you. What I’m reading: Catching the Big Fish (re-read) (David Lynch) What I'm listening to: shitty 90s...
youngtobacco
May 26, 20251 min read


The tyranny of open loops
The never ending story. 10:30AM Have you ever been stuck in an open loop? I mean, you're probably in one right now. Unread emails, dishes...
youngtobacco
May 19, 20252 min read


They blew up the chicken man in Philly last night
They'll pass you by, glory days. 9:33 AM Having a weird music obsession lately. It's not cool. Not cult. Not punk. Not pushing the...
youngtobacco
May 12, 20252 min read
2025 project list (updated)
10:38AM Creative rundown. Project burndown. Something something shinedown. The Philosophy of Velocity Re-issue Carl is finishing the new...
youngtobacco
May 5, 20252 min read
Neon meate dream of a octafish
8:47AM The new album by Krohme dropped last week - a fourteen-track showcase of aggro/industrial/psychedelic/boom bap hip hop with...
youngtobacco
Apr 28, 20252 min read


Cow Tools (We Used to Look for Things)
Cow tools. (Gary Larson always knew.) 12:01PM We used to look for things. There was satisfaction in patient digging for information in...
youngtobacco
Apr 21, 20252 min read


The Studio is a State of Mind (pt. 5)
Somewhere, sometime. 5AM. Sometime in 2014. Somewhere in Fishers, IN. The phone alarm kicks off its melody I've learned to hate. I...
youngtobacco
Apr 14, 20253 min read


8pm til sunrise
Rattle rattle thunder clatter boom boom boom... 1:14 PM What a wild week. I won't go into politics, so I'll stay with home economics. ...
youngtobacco
Apr 7, 20252 min read
And Out Come the Wolves
11: 43AM A couple of music announcements... The "Philosophy of Velocity" vinyl project is fully in the planning stages. Masters are...
youngtobacco
Mar 31, 20252 min read
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