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<p>Let me be really honest. Let me preface said honesty by saying honesty is not something I’ve always tended to come by all that… well, honestly.</p>
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<p>Here I am, marking the day of the release of <em>Vairagya</em> by musing about Bob Dylan.</p>
<p>It’s impossible to either estimate or underestimate the impact he’s had on me as a songwriter. There’s nothing inherently special in this; I know…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6098979/transfiguration">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Todd also told me this song has a good “drop.” I didn’t know what that was, but apparently it happens at 2:17 in.</p>
<p>Isn’t it fun doing things you don’t even know you’re doing?</p>
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<p>I probably could have titled this one “The IT Department’s Lament” because I can’t even begin to tell you the technical problems that unfolded while putting this one together. I won’t weary you with the details but if your curiosity…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6098977/jackboots">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>As I hear told, Pandora opened it, and all the tribulations and miseries of the world fluttered out to afflict humankind.</p>
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<p>Here's the first track I recorded for&nbsp;<em>Vairagya</em>. Accordingly, it’s titled Take One.</p>
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<p><em>“That said – it’s finally coming. And I’m a-gonna kiss and tell a bit.”</em></p>
<p>This, said the flirt.</p>
<p>Okay. That album I told you about? The “expansive record documenting said disease and decline”?</p>
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<p>I guess it had to happen eventually. When your name is Jonathan, people tend to take liberties. Growing up, I always chafed when people shortened it for sake of convenience.</p>
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<p>For those of you who’ve raised an eyebrow at the whole “Jon James Is Dead” thing –</p>
<p>Well, there’s an Actual Impetus of sorts.</p>
<p>As fortune/misfortune would have it there was, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/world/canadian-rapper-jon-james-mcmurray-dies-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1YmdF7rlaOMnM1t7uwPQVVE3TW8Zi7hyEqZ3j84Ja0shRNdt8baRnxNTA">until recently</a>, this other fellow named Jon James…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6098970/truth-stranger-than-fiction">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>"The Semi-professional Sideman Formerly Known as Jon James” just didn’t seem to have a sufficiently catchy ring to it.</p>
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<p>So I kept the name simpler and opted for a new convoluted symbol instead.</p>
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