As you've noticed, I've removed some submissions, the ones belonging to an album that has officially just released!

It is my dungeon synth album A Labyrinth to Live in

completely instrumental, spooky and atmospheric, darkly erotic and subtly psychedelic, for fans vintage synth sounds, 80s straight-to-VHS horror soundtracks, taking long hot baths with one black candle lit, please enjoy these sounds I've put together.

available on all streaming services as well as band camp

https://thesidewaysdoor.bandcamp.co.....nth-to-live-in

A Divine Addict by the Game Owls (myself) is enjoying being a released album on streaming platforms and bandcamp, but, like a needy baby, it wanted yet even more attention, so I created a music video for one of its songs.

Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kUO_SzscEs

my new album: The Game Owls - A Divine Addict is now out on all streaming services and my bandcamp page.

“Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple
Verse of a strain jocose rather than modest and chaste,
Cease to be hurt by the song obscene, for verily ne'er was
Wont our mentule to wear eyebrow up-drawn in surprise.”
-Priapeia, epigram 49

My new album, A Divine Addict, under my Game Owls moniker, is now available for digital pre-order: https://thesidewaysdoor.bandcamp.co.....-divine-addict

It will be released on March 7th and will be available on all streaming services.

To prepare for the release, I've removed every submission from my gallery that was content for this album. None of those songs, when posted here, were the final versions. They were all first drafts. On March 7th you will hear the completed, mastered versions of the songs, a few songs I never posted, and you'll have the ability to hear the album's flow as a whole, a fully constructed story and a completed work of art in and of itself.

Thank you for your interest. I will make another post on the day of release.

I'll be going to my first ever con in March in St. Louis, Gateway Furmeet. a bit nervous about it. Just wondering if any of my watchers on here might be going to that one.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Moz.....j4h76DaZpvxFCf

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li.....M-D31tsab5bX1U

https://music.apple.com/us/album/ra.....sis/1707822611

https://thesidewaysdoor.bandcamp.co.....-mass-hypnosis

My album Radio Mass Hypnosis is coming out on October 13th on all streaming platforms.

here is the official music video for the track Lost Axis off the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Y7Ifk7t-M

here is the link for the bandcamp pre-order: https://thesidewaysdoor.bandcamp.co.....-mass-hypnosis

Here is the link for a spotify save: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/t.....-mass-hypnosis

If you listen, thank you.

My acoustic solo album is available for purchase on bandcamp. I've yet to upload any of this material on this site but I will upload one selection tonight.

Here it is:

https://thesidewaysdoor.bandcamp.co.....er-or-the-kiss

Artwork by the gifted  anhaga

well, it looks like I'm starting a new Game Owls album before finishing the last one. But, hey, we're in the frying heat of verdant summer. Sensibilities shifted to match the environment. I'm feeling a bit more uptempo in the old soul. And I knew the next album would be a trip-hop experiment which is an atmosphere i was just too eager to dive into. And damn, starting projects are so much more inspiring than putting finishing touches on one. Like, not knowing exactly where you're headed is such a rush, while knowing your destination is rather tedious.

So an uptempo album with shorter songs about global topics has stolen my attention over a droney album about personal topics. I still plan to finish the droney album; it's very close to being done, but the ol' Owls are in a dance-y mood, they don't want to watch me weep over my wounds right now. They'd much rather see me angry at the world's wounds, and so that's what they're having me articulate in my work at the moment.

That's when you ask whether I'll have anything finished ever. Well I do have my acoustic album finished, I got the cover art done for it, I just have to format it and send it off to the printer. So that'll be done within a month or two.

In the meantime, I appreciate all the encouragement. Thanks for stopping by and paying attention.

I've added videos of my acoustic songs on my youtube channel

I specifically want to showcase my newest song, which I'm very proud of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MencEg6uBtM&list=PLhAMKS-U6LtvlEMbS41HhGw-O57on-wZQ&index=6

and if you need a laugh to lighten you up after listening to my melancholy music, the entire first season of my plushie comedy show, The Office of RJ DeWolfe, remains on the channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li.....OrxvfQ-Gacjq74

So I moved back to Missouri a couple of weeks ago after living in Washington state for nine years. Mother Missouri, the clay, the deciduous forest, the rivers, the wide sky and close stars, the thunderstorms and electrified atmosphere, this is the area that The Game Owls first came to life. I almost feel like it was The Game Owls that brought me back here. They weren't as willing to shine in the North, in the shade of the evergreens and the neutralization of the high-alkali oceanic waters. They were disgusted by the indifferent, self-domesticated, mangy, vermin-like deer that infested Port Townsend due to the fact that no hunter would be proud to shoot them and no one with any health sense would eat them. Here, back in my first home, the deer are healthy and spry, running and leaping from humanity and remaining elegant ambassadors of the voice of nature. The Game Owls also needed the sound of distant trains rolling, and while the ambience of a harbor offers much to stimulate the imagination, nonetheless that wasn't The Game Owls' territory. The Game Owls travel by train, not by boat.

The Game Owls also need truth and the deep psychic self-reflection of their vessel (me). So they put me in a situation where the elements of my upbringing would become transparent to me in adulthood. They needed me to sober up some too. It's too easy to stay buzzed all the time in Washington state. And while the Game Owls do like The Grateful Dead and are proud of my stint playing bass in a Dead band, they like Neurosis and The Residents much much more and needed more introverted habits from me to feed their aesthetic.

And, boy, am I being rewarded! I haven't been this excited about a project for six or seven years at least. For me this is the kind of love that's most effective. To know that I'm tuned into a concept that's manifesting smoothly without obstruction, that more gets done every day, that I'm actually doing the job that the Great Spirit hired me to do, nothing makes my heart fuller. This is truly the joy of life to me.

I'm so excited to tell you more about the new album from The Game Owls. But their lips are zipped for now. They only wanted to let you know that we're working hard on it and we're very, very excited.

I want to release my "solo" album in January-ish. I am nearly finished so now is the time to reach out to visual artists. I have a near to final draft of the master to share with you immediately. I can't pay more than 60 (US) dollars, but I should only need two to three images, and minimalism fits for the music so it shouldn't be too much work. Good artists are watching this page so I figure I would share the call here. Please PM if interested.

Being an artist is a blessing. I have difficulty understanding how any artistically-driven people turn out to be philosophically materialist or modern atheist because carrying the gift of an artistic drive is nothing short of a supernatural experience as far as I'm concerned. The creation of art appears to me as active proof that the spirit can separate from the flesh, actively engaging in the beauty of your own reflected spirit and testing how it may appear if it weren't confined by physical law.

(Note: Music and poetry is an art form, an equal art form to the visual arts, and I consider myself an artist)

I feel that the more I've dwelt on the physical limitations to the creation of my art, the less anything at all became possible. The Game Owls was born out of the artistic will to use any device available to me; they're an attempt to compose a symphony using only a glass bottle collection. I underestimated what a valuable attitude towards creation this is -- I'm reminded of how The Residents depicted God's creation of man: "At the time there were no graveyards to rob, so He had been forced to use dead worms and some seaweed that had lay dead on the beach for quite a while." I understand how the speak of decay sounds unwholesome, but I'm attempting to depict to you how the golden light of artistic will in the end will always outshine the vulgarity of the materials used. Even if the vulgarity is some of your own emotional content, you have to trust that the emotional content can connect transpersonally somehow. And if it doesn't, well I suppose that's when you fail. You're the judge of your own failures, just as you're the one who utilizes and honors your own blessings. You're given a gift and you can either use it or put it away in the closet and forget about it forever. One choice is clearly sadder than the other.

So, modern atheists, how do you honor these gifts without seeing the spirit imbued in them? I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I'm not sure it's possible without some sort of denial. Some people are much better and more clever at self-deception so they can still be very productive without ever reflecting on the beauty that they generate. Beliefs often don't correlate with actions, luckily for those with limiting beliefs. But I'm not so good at it. If I lie to myself I have a bad habit of believing the lie, and it effects my actions accordingly. So I have to believe in spirit, I have to invite in the woo-woo or else I'll waste the blessing, the limitations will win and the flesh will be a prison instead of an opportunity to express spirit in a tactile way.

Yesterday, in one moment, I saw how every misfortune, every perceived limitation, every failure and moment of giving up was ultimately my fault. I don't have anyone or anything to blame for my time wasted. I've been nothing short of a total asshole with how I've used my traumas and struggles as rationalizations for my perceived limitations and excuses for my wastrel-like behavior. It was definitely an instance of the truth setting me free but I understand why it was a truth i didn't want to look at for so long. I never thought that witnessing my own blessings so undeniably would be such a sobering and even, in a way, disappointing, experience. I have like 7 years worth of denying my blessings to account for. A lot of catching up to do.

Honor yourself; honor your blessings. Take it from me that not doing so can lead you to a very sad and regretful future.

if anyone wants a little comedy, I have a youtube series starring one of my stuffed animals. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li.....OrxvfQ-Gacjq74