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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 302 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 231 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...
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Jun 162 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...
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Jun 93 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...
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Jun 22 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 261 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 192 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 122 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 52 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 282 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 212 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...
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Apr 143 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 72 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 312 min read


I'm like a prickly pear!
Short post today because I'm headed to Las Vegas for a few days. So...that's it. That's the post. kling klang king of the rim ram room...
youngtobacco
Mar 241 min read
That's how they gitcha
9:33 AM Some bullet points: Meditating, as I've said. Twenty minutes every morning. I think it's helping keep me mostly free from the...
youngtobacco
Mar 171 min read


You can't possibly hate my voice more than I do
9:59AM I was in the vocal cave yesterday. The studio is a room inside a factory with other creatives doing creative things, sometimes at...
youngtobacco
Mar 103 min read


Your dad's America
Freedom costs a buck o' five. 9:34 AM I’ve started meditating. I'm not new to it. In fact, I've gotten pretty good at it in the past. I...
youngtobacco
Mar 32 min read


How to accidentally disappear
That singular spell which the wilderness lays upon certain lonely natures, 9:37AM To begin... New tee shirts are up at the shop. I added...
youngtobacco
Feb 243 min read


The wendigos are all south of here
Laurentides. 9:04AM Three days now, dug in. The snow is waist-high all around the cabin. The news ticker shows a winter storm warning for...
youngtobacco
Feb 171 min read
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