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The latest release from Jason August, multiple performers and multiple styles. Available on all music streaming services. Just search “casual soup”
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Friends, I know I don’t post as much as I should here. I spend most of my time at work and any free time with my family. I found over a recent trip to Africa and another trip to the UK time to reread Strauss’ and Howe’s book “The 4th Turning”. Then I went skateboarding…
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When the Revolution Met the Human Being An essay by Jason August on the fundamental differences between Communism and Liberal Democracy framed around the use of active measures to undermine the beauty of liberal democratic systems. I started thinking this evening about Soviet Active measures (aktivnye meropriyatiya) after reading Tomas Rid’s book of the same name,…
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These two songs are really about the same person, just viewed from different points in life and through different emotional lenses. Is it fiction? Is it based on real life events? Who could know? In the first song, we see her years later. The decisions were already made. The roads already taken. What remains is…
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I wrote “Leading Lines” when I was 34, back when everything still felt like it had a question mark behind it. Listening now at 52, I hear that younger version of me wide open to the world with no filters, no calluses yet—letting sound, light, and people’s humanity hit me full force. That’s what this…
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Something new to listen to: “Faith Today” is my attempt to take an unsparing look at a world where people don’t just accept control, they choose it. I stripped everything back on this one, both musically and vocally, because it didn’t need polish—it needed perspective. There are no heroes here, no simple answers, just the…
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We’re not living through collapse. Though we are living through something.We’re living through shared disorientation and fragmentation. An executive thought: The individuals who’ll matter most in the years ahead won’t be those with the most information, but those who can: decide what matters ignore what doesn’t act with clarity regardless I. A Misdiagnosis of “Bad Times” The…
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I wrote this song about 15 years ago after realizing how much of my life I’d spent learning how to blend in. Read rooms. Match pace. Know when to agree, when to disappear, when not to ask hard questions. The starlings are a metaphor for that, a metaphor for how moving together can feel like…
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The Suno Version: The Original Version: I called this work, “the carriage.” It is about a lifelong confrontation with an unseen control system. The forces that claim authorship over our lives. It’s about living just outside the architect’s clean lines, believing you were meant for something you created, only to realize something else has been…
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Wrote this tiny little essay in my Sophomore year Philosophy Course. Enjoy, or hate it. We like to say we love people. Bodies. Names. Faces. But if we’re honest—brutally honest—those are just the containers. What we love is never the carbon itself. We love what happens inside and beside it. The way time behaves when…
