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9/23/11

September 7, 2011

I am an instrument of reason
Untouched by human hands
Dark to hallucination
Impartial to fortune

Prone to lie down
As dogs lie down
Before the majesty
Of ice cream

Transparent to children
Opaque to wisdom
Immune to suggestion
Impenetrable to faith

Like you and not like you
Half here and half aware
The difference between
Why and Wyoming

Managing the obligations of family life, I have never felt more clearly the connection between my love for my children and my love for my parents. I watch as they each grow older and the spectre of boundless potential and inevitable loss is often overwhelming. The feeling is amplified by the recursive set of relations - parent to child, child to grand parent, parent to parent, etc. It is impossible to look in one direction and see merely one thing. I see my parents in myself, myself in my children, my children in my parents. We are all at once the same age, facing the same challenges, and offering our best answers.

updates

my new tape In The Noon and Other Songs is coming out on cryptic carousel

update 1/27 - paypal henryhynes@verizon.net $5 for a copy



recorded 2009-10 at my house, alone, lonely, hot. most songs recorded this past August, others from last fall and winter. it's also a double cassette.

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There may or may not be another, untitled tape coming out on Neon Blossom tapes out of Chicago. this tape can also be called "Cop Car Tape" it ever comes out.

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lastly, Liz Berg wrote a nice piece on me for the free music archive, which I worked at a little over the summer in WFMU

link - http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WFMU/blog/Bedroom_jams_by_Henry_Hynes


happy holidays, Henry


P.S. If you happen to be in Princeton this weekend, my Dad and I plus a couple special guests are playing a low-key set tomorrow (12/26) night in Princeton at the Alchemist and Barrister on Whitherspoon street. It is supposed to snow. see you there.

THE PORTAL official release

--- "collected four track meditations 2006 - 2010" ---
should be available soon available now through the cryptic carousel site I'll also have copies at upcoming shows and via email henryhynes[at]gmail[dot]com

here's a portal track that hasn't been posted previously... Jamming For The Jungle





cover^^^^ comes in plastic sleeve with some other art, thanks!!!! -henry

home blitz playing at pilam, philly this friday 5/21 with veronica falls, others
check it out!!!

"FROM MY TRIP TO ATLANTIS 1960"

stolen by BBC 40 years later for a nature film: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5565437251931896283#

THE PORTAL cd-r now available for ordering

collected 4 track recordings 2006-2010
email henryhynes@gmail.com to order a cd-r with unique art for free
coming out soon out now on cryptic carousel

first 2 test copies of 'The Portal'

two test copies i gave to friends of....
THE PORTAL ---- almost an hour of collected american guitar music recorded to various four tracks mostly 2009 and 2010
~~~~unique art for the first batch or so~~~~~
email henryhynes@gmail.com for a "preorder"--- will be ready for real order soon, hopefully a cassette release on cryptic carousel soon also

more snow gold, bonus video

A couple more copies of Snow Gold for sale.
Corey Bauer, business wizard and head honcho of Cryptic Carousel records passed me them at a recent Home Blitz show in New York!


thanks Corey!!!!
email henryhynes@gmail.com to order



HH video from Bruar Falls 1/4

Snow Gold update, HH show tonight

no more copies at the moment, should have more soon

TONIGHT...

HENRY HYNES - SNOW GOLD

FIELD RECORDINGS WINTER 2008-2009
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Cassette Tape --- $5
Email henryhynes@gmail.com
for a copy
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official release/distribution (early 2009) by http://www.crypticcarousel.com/
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I ONLY HAVE TWO LEFT!!!!

Listen to samples on myspace.com/henryhynes

new video

Measure from Ed Hynes on Vimeo.

On the Plane to Bermuda

We pull up into the white
We are all going to heaven

At our best, we imagine we
will laugh as the ship goes down
They will come to take our furniture
and we will light it all on fire
and drink Tequila and howl

We will shoplift things
no one needs
and spread them on the lawn
for sale at prices
no one can afford
And people will buy them
And as they go to leave
we will create a small diversion
and slip their money back into their pockets
and smile a knowing smile
which they will later recall
admiring the useless thing
they got for free
Such is life

At our best
we will walk into the woods
unspooling a cassette tape
draping it like tinsel
over passing branches
until it runs out
stopping there to remove all of our clothing
light a fire
and return immediately home
Sitting naked in the kitchen
we'll laugh at the thought
of an unsuspecting visitor
who follows the ribbon and finds the empty apparel
and the embers still burning
and wonders what became of those who blazed the trail
Did they consume themselves in some impossible ritual?
Did they fly to heaven?
Were there clues to their passage in a message
still clinging to the tape?

At our best
we see ourselves
skipping 'Physics as a Liberal Art'
in a borrowed dinghy
without a life jacket
rowing in a light rain
to an island which has beckoned all this time
tucked in a corner of a black lake
we've driven past all these days
arriving like Ponce de Leon to find
beneath a moldering tarp
a television and a tackle box
and laughing
not at the ambiguity
but at the inevitability of it

We will do all these things
because we haven't any alternative
because we know that fortune favors the brave
and the brave can do no wrong

~ Ed Hynes, 11/13/09