Dog Eaters

Intimate Strangers

Posted on 09.22.22 under Uncategorized

Engineered for pleasure
Engineered for pain
Trapped in a maze
Lost in a dream for days

Cut our dead flowers
From the garden of lust
Playing with fire
Catalyzed to combust

Intimate strangers
Well met but unknown
We chase the dangers
Deep in the zone

Brush up against them
And sparks fly through the air
No filter in their needs
They’ll do it on a dare

Lost in a dreamland
No husband or wife
Misunderstanding
the meaning of life

Intimate strangers
Well met but unknown
We chase the dangers
Deep in the zone

Lost in a moment
Of reckless delight
No thought for tomorrow
Just grind through the night

Planning ahead
As if we already knew
Anticipating the intent
of mutual carnal consent

Intimate strangers
Well met but unknown
We chase the dangers
Deep in the zone

Intimate strangers
Well met but unknown
We chase the dangers
Deep in the zone

credits

released September 22, 2022
Written, perform, recorded by Malcolm Wong
Tenor and soprano sax stylings by Jason Gay
Photo illustration by midjourney.com & Malcolm Wong

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Experiments with Midjourney

Posted on 09.15.22 under Uncategorized

Intrigued by the results of a well-publicized winner of an art contest,

I checked out midjourney.com to see how easily I could dial in a image for DARK HIGHWAY, the image for the song. I just used a few prompts and came up with the two images below. Midjourney uses “available” images on the internet and composites them with A.I. No credit is given for the images used, obviously no payments are made for anyone’s intellectual property.


There will probably be copyright issues moving forward, but in this beta period, it feels a bit like the wild, wild west. In the future, there will probably be image banks where artists upload much like stock footage where payment could be determined on how much of an image was used in the final result.

The speed that digital imagery is being used in addition to illustration, i.e. video doorbell and surveillance cameras that can be accessed online is outpacing privacy laws and operating in a grey zone.

DARK HIGHWAY uses my own imagery, but in the future, maybe someone else will be using it…

Dark Highway

Posted on 09.11.22 under Uncategorized

You made a pact with the Devil
At the crossroads of your life
Too young for nothing left to lose
Too old to make that an excuse

Blast down a dark highway the signs are flying past
Watching the clock wind down the seconds tick by fast

Fighting to hold back the sunrise
Seduced by illusions in the night
Lost in the sequel of the game
It’s all different but the same

Blast down a dark highway the signs are flying past
Watching the clock wind down the seconds tick by fast

Can’t step back off the ledge once you’ve jumped
Scream free-falling down to your doom
Your money can’t erase the bloody stain
Prove that the demons were really slain

Blast down a dark highway the signs are flying past
Watching the clock wind down the seconds tick by fast
Blast down a dark highway the signs are flying past
Watching the clock wind down the seconds tick by fast

credits

released September 11, 2022
Written, performed, recorded by Malcolm Wong

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