{"id":288,"date":"2009-06-26T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikevarley.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2009-06-23T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:13:45","slug":"election-08-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Election ’08 Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most of you know, I recently completed work on my first album, “The Events of Election ’08”.\u00a0 It is a series of orations covering the presidential campaign from an angle different from any blog post or CNN graphic.\u00a0 For the uninitiated, the album website (theeventsofelection08.com<\/a>) can fill you in on more of the practicals.<\/p>\n

Now among my cataloged flaws is a lack of basic salesmanship – or at least salesmanship in the traditional sense.\u00a0 I don’t enjoy discussing my own work, I find money and art to be an abusive marriage and while I see the craft in an “elevator pitch,” they’re as facile as the Muzak that plays between the floor stops.<\/div>\n
In searching for virtues to balance deficiency, I find myself again relying on truth – or truth as I perceive it.\u00a0 The following things I truly believe, regardless of ten dollar purchase:<\/div>\n
“The Events of Election ’08” is an important collection of work.\u00a0 Its<\/span> rhythmic-lyric writing is not poetry and it’s not spoken word.\u00a0 If I were to label it beyond “oration,” I’d describe it as “folken word.”\u00a0 It’s meant for ears, not for eyes and isn’t flashy.\u00a0 I can’t define it more than that, but that’s the way I like it.<\/div>\n
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“The Events of Election ’08” is a unique collection of work.\u00a0 It captures a powerful moment in American history in a way completely different from contemporary media.\u00a0 Modern news constructs disposable shrines around the past day’s error.\u00a0 “Election ’08” seeks the human condition in every plumber, pastor and maverick.\u00a0 It is unique in perspective and unique in empathy, and bears none of the bleach of the vicious news cycle.<\/div>\n
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“The Events of Election ’08” is a seminal collection of work.\u00a0 It is the first in a group of albums I will undoubtedly record and another chapter in a life that sees creation as vocation.\u00a0 If I had one true selling point, it’d have to be this: I’m never going to stop.\u00a0 This is not hobby.\u00a0 This is not choice.\u00a0 This is devotion unfounded and logic astray, and the only thing that will stop my creating is the thing that created me.\u00a0 So if you’re not interested in “Election’s” subject matter, perhaps think of it as an investment in art speculation.<\/div>\n
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I’m selling the CD’s for $10 dollars each.\u00a0 If I sell forty I’ll break even, which is all I’m looking for at present.\u00a0 The rest will be used to try and get the message out there.<\/div>\n
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If you want a CD but you don’t see me regularly, email me your address and I’ll send you a CD with an addressed and stamped envelope for the money.\u00a0 Don’t worry, I trust you.\u00a0 If you think you know people that would be interested in this, tell them to email me or send them to theeventsofelection08.com<\/a> or share your CD with them.\u00a0 Every evangelist helps.<\/div>\n
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Thanks for your time and even more for your support.<\/div>\n
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Regards,<\/div>\n
Mike Varley<\/div>\n\t\t
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As most of you know, I recently completed work on my first album, “The Events of Election ’08”.\u00a0 It is a series of orations covering the presidential campaign from an angle different from any blog post or CNN graphic.\u00a0 For the uninitiated, the album website (theeventsofelection08.com) can fill you in on more of the practicals. […]<\/p>\n\t\t

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