I didn’t realize till this morning that the series of videos I am doing is actually a “novel” of a sort. It’s a very old-school bit of storytelling, out of the West African tradition of the griot, which is thematic and entirely appropriate.
I’ll have the music part soon, because I’m working on an album for Rytius Records.
So let me reframe this thing.
The story is all true. And truth in this case is much stranger than fiction. It’s all about how writing my real novel, Rytius Records, helped me grow in my actual life, and understand real and quite severe problems that I didn’t know that I had, namely, trauma from childhood sexual abuse, which wounded me deeply, leaving me exposed to narcissistic abuse in all of my romantic relationships, including that with my ex-wife, mother of my only child.
Here are the chapters so far:
I. Things Fall Apart
Dead Fathers, College Sweethearts, Art, Addiction, and Childhood
Gender, Soulless Beasts, The Ancient Near East, and AI
Mentions:
Origin of Plot of Rytius RecordsThe Algebra of Strength and Devotion (the first stab at our “new covenant between men and women”)
Photography
Plato’s Timaeus
Myth of Atrahasis
Epic of Gilgamesh
Descent of Ishtar
Enuma Elish (Marduk and Tiamat)Támar, Prince, A Divine Revelation, Burnout, and Extortion
Mentions:
IA and the Siren Robots, How Am I Not Myself? (2023)
“Feeling Yourself Under Your Sundress” (this is not rated X, and it is not pornography, but it is NSFW erotic dance)“Street Ho”: I decided not to upload these rudimentary vocal sketches, because I already did the vocal sketches in the video.
Strike!, Creeps, Spiders, and the “Just Blacks”
Mentions:
“The Epistemological Problem” (rough voice memo of my proposal to Steve Caldwell and Eric Hammond to support my AI research)
Weird Emails
II. Detective Damastes, or, How I Became Spider-Man
III. What Really Happened
More to come. It’s a wild ride.