Let the endless scrolling of the thought processes begin…

If you are here, I think you will be better off reading entries in my Patreon, as that has become my studio journal, a place to write letters to fans across the world, to interact, and so much more. So yes. That is much better. Coming here will seem like a back door to nowhere. At least for the moment. I’m at a point in life where I want to keep certain data as close to the Abox site as I can. But this is not my blog. I state that plainly right here right now.

What it may become is an extension of the NOW phases I’d missed. I had read about this a long time ago from my un-met mentor and for a while, it really seemed to work. It’s this idea of simply letting the world know what I’m working on via one quick link. So if someone wanted to know… “What the hell is Claude doing these days? He’s not on Social Media (gasp)! Where could he be??”

Like it says on the site where the idea originally came from… Don’t social media updates do that? No, they really don’t. If I wonder how someone is doing these days, it doesn’t help me to see that they went on vacation last week, are upset about something in the news, or even got a new job. That’s not the big picture. A /now page shares what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.

This solves that problem. Of course, if you come back a month later and there’s nothing here… Well… That’s sort of the way it could go. BUT… The opposite is also true. If I think there’s something happening that’s very important where I would want immediate access for the entire world whether they had Social Media, Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, etc… Well. That’s where this thing comes in handy.

Social Media Crap

August 10th, 2026

I have toyed with the idea of leaving Social Media behind, but of course, management and team would not agree that this is a good decision (there is some merit to promoting things, and that too is my job). But I am tired of seeing so many people (because it isn’t just musicians anymore) posting obvious things for attention-seeking that it seems like art itself is dead. I know it isn’t, mind you, but it does feel this way sometimes. I am not good at the constant posting-for-attention crap.

I just want to write. Music. Letters. Thoughts. Make things. Perform for people. The rest is truly just crap is it not?

I mean, I saw a politician literally injecting herself on camera to extract her eggs for freezing on a social media post (but also gaslighting the populace into division over it). What value does this type of post have? What happened to common decency? What about privacy, the idea that people need not know every damn thing you do in your private life?

Strange times we live in. Strange times indeed.

Thus, this week, while I am out in nature, I plan to journal myself into a true meditative state. I want to contemplate the nature, or should I say, the future, of what I do and how I do it. After reading a few interviews with engineers, artists, and producers, there were many things I could and should share with the world. But… I am not playing that game by the rules of the current 2026 set. That’s over.

Almost there…

I updated the Abox site. Or I should say, I un-updated it. It might stay like this for a while, unless there’s some odd complaint from management. But It’s a precursor to something else… I’m bored with the web as it is. It needs to go back to that magic period where everything was crazy.
I almost thought of doing nothing more than having stick figure drawings and leave it at that. If no one is visiting band sites… Why should I care?

I guess the problem then becomes… What is the purpose of having a website if no one visits it? I can see that. But there’s that other issue, of feeling lost among the billions of people on social Media, leaving me to think that those stupid videos of plastic bugs found in food for clicks might just be on to something…