ok we got a new song. not sure what it's about but it appears pretty dark. just another man walking around a post apocalypse city and then everyone dies. lol. but yes i do think it is pretty cool. I like the lines To your death throes, We make love, in the black dusk,The world explodes around us,So naked with the blood and gore.

that's what it feels like right now to me in the world. but i'm also whipping up some awesome new songs i've been obsessively sitting at THE COMPUTER occasionally picking up my instruments. So lmk if u love or hate the new song and i will adjust my music accordingly. or will i?? no way to know!! powder keg blowing up on spotify too!! for some reason. just keeps getting recomended to people thru the radios. so that's pretty cool. but as you can tell from my frenetic writing, lots to do lots to do. deep in the middle of this song about a HAUNTED HOTEL. back to it now wish me luck!! and lmk what you think about (the curse of the) BLACK DUST!!

watson

OK, so I’ve been thinking about ways to get the fans more involved recently. Recently we had that big surge in powder keg numbers. Not exactly sure how people are finding it, but I think a lot heard it on tiktok. 🤷

I welcome all of our fans to brainstorm ideas on how we can connect with the fans.

Should I make personal videos talking about myself or maybe just music videos?

I was also thinking about making a monthly newsletter. We these before, but I got discouraged thinking many people were reading them, but maybe I should get back at it.

if you have any ideas, please don’t hesitate to send them to watsonmoonbooking@gmail.com

or literally just comment below! that might be the easiest way.

we got an awesome new song coming in a couple weeks thank you guys so much for your support! 

ps:  here’s my custom nonchalant emoji I made I thought you guys might like it. It has a LOT of applications.

ok it's about Epstein island!?! that's what ya'll wanted???

I kid I kid but seriously this song is kind of about Epstein island. I didn't really get the idea until halfway into writing it but once I got to the second verse I had these dark references to a mysterious island and uncomfortable SEX. and i said "it's epstein"." so i rewrote some lines. “i'll comb thru all the files for what you've done” but as for some of the other lines, who knows? is epstein holding ME at the beginning of the song?? where am i rushing to to make it ON TIME? and who is this person doing terrible things to pay their bills?? these questions remain to me so if you can help me figure them out i would much appreciate.

the other song is called THE PARTY. it is about this girl from indiana who planned to kill her boyfriend by speeding her car into a brick wall. and she planned to just have the passenger side collide with the wall. and she succeded in this terrible plan. but there was another unfortuante soul in the car as well :( . after this happened she was living it up on social media. people suspected her but there wasn't any evidence… until they retrieved her car logs that showed her driving that route to the brick wall 8 times the day before the murder!!! “practicing”

so she was early and thankfully put in prison. 

“Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of murder for intentionally driving her car at 100 mph into a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and their friend Davion Flanagan. She was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.”

you see i am not making this up!!! tho to be fair i make up a lot of things. and many of my songs and posts are just fantasy worlds you may or may not wish to behold. but shudder not, there is forever an alternate fantasy being constructed in my office right off from the kitchen. 

about the party, i like it well enough but i'm worried the organ is too loud in the chorus. also the first bit is drenched in reverb then all of that reverb disappears when the beat drops into the chorus. so you see, there are things i will forever worry about in this song. but that is the case for every song i'm afraid. overall these are just the creator's lamentations. i'm sure you noticed neither of those sad details.

don't you love the rain rain rain rain rain chant in the second verse? lots of fun stuff in this tune with an awesome sax performance for andy morrell.

been listening to WILCO - YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT studying it, thinking about having LESS. my songs are o so maximal you know? o to be silent and meaningful. we'll keep the chaos but we'll have room for it to breath. i haven't begun experimenting with this style yet, and another 3 songs are lined up to be released SOON. i pushed the release date to be SOONER because i want to be forced to work on new stuff. can't say “o i got 3 weeks til those three songs come out i'll be fine.” nah i gotta whip sumthing up!!!

those 3 songs i think you'll love. posted one of the soundcloud secretly if you're a true fan you can go get early access. but um yeah wilco experiments hopefully coming soon. i think about blonde too when i think about that SPACE. but wilco's reverb is a lot more natural and subtle. BLONDE is kinda FULL but still minimal. Wilco has legimente space. I think about some radiohead songs too. like that one all the girls want to make out to that came out as a b side of a song from the bends… what was that damn song called? TALK SHOW HOST. that is a song with SPACE. i was amazed it was from the bends era. Sounds like some in rainbows shit. But yes radiohead does space well. anyway just thoughts on this noxious night. july 27, 2026. trip with the family complete. but i can't get into all that. thank you anyway for listening! stay tuned!!

-watson moon

we got two new songs!! they are “love song for a liquor cabinet” and “you're frightened of growing old.” 

now i have a challenge for you. listen to these songs before you read this...

done???

ok now answer this riddle: what is different about these 2 compared to all my other catalogue? i'm very interested to know if you can tell they were recorded very long ago. i was just a kid of 18. i was new to songwriting.

but would you have known?? to me they feel not so distant from my modern output as one would think. so they are. two new ancient songs reborn for the modern world. some of my first passable songs. i was working at mcdonalds living at my mum's house. i think you can hear the mcdonalds influence in the tunes. i was fresh out of high school, all friends gone away to college. i stowed myself away in my mother's basement and recorded my first real album.

i've updated just a few elements for this release. i've layered the vocals with modern ones. but i only had the masters. no individual instrument tracks. so i could not have altered the mix much even if i wanted. so the songs are mostly the same. could you tell???

send ur answers to watsonmoonbooking@gmail.com

My friend Dan Pritchard said to me “I love the new album, not many people make Concept Albums anymore.”

I said “huh.” Although I'd thought of the themes and wanted some to consistently appear, I didn't intend to make a concept album. Listening back I already see changes I'd make. I think it would have been wise to have Concrete & Cobblestones and track 2, in place of I Left Home. (But there are many changes that could have been made. I do like the album as it is.)

Maybe the concept album idea arises because I purposely made the intro song as an “opening the book” song. It says “Ok, these songs are just tall tales accumulated thru my life, now have a seat and listen.” So begins the album.

But anyway, the themes. What are the themes of this album?

Well I'll list what I think they are then I'll consult a profressional.

I'd say

1. Childhood Abuse
2. Escapism
3. Disillusionment about the modern world
4. Searching for transcendence/God in this nightmare 21st century
5. Maybe… crime??? Lots of seedy characters that appear

These pop up a bunch… but there is no real narrative. The narrative is that these are all vignettes / recollections by the narrator (the character Watson Moon)

The Oracle notes the reccurance of HELL, saying:

Hell isn't elsewhere

One phrase keeps resurfacing:

• "I was in hell."
• "I am in hell now."
• "I was back in hell."
• "Now I'm in hell when I planned for heaven's door."

Hell isn't presented as punishment after death. It's everyday existence:

• work,
• boredom,
• addiction,
• modern America,
• loneliness,
• failed relationships.

The songs suggest heaven is imagined constantly but rarely reached.

"I think of heaven / I think of heaven / I think of you."

There is longing for transcendence, but earthly life repeatedly drags Watson downward.

It also brings up MOTHER a lot. I guess I do bring her up.

"I call my mother on the way and tell her what I've done." That's talking about the guy who killed Gabi Petito

Anyway I feel like I'm just glazing myself writing about my own lyrics in this way. If you have any specific questions ask me!! 

UPDATE: THE SONG AREN'T ACTUALLY COMING OUT TIL FRIDAY THE 19th!! So bookmark this away and save til then.

The songs we have this week (You're Frightened Of Growing Old and Love song for a Liquor Cabinet) were written and recorded a very long time ago. Here is the story.

I wrote these songs while working at a McDonald's, living at my mom's house. I'd just dropped out of college after freshman year. The reasons are a bit hazy now. I'd made a few friends, but I didn't feel it was the right place for me. Something was just pulling me away. I can't say if it was a good or evil force but I surrendered to it.

My mom had bought a new house and there was a basement. I took refuge in a little room that would later become  wine cellar. I 'd been making music starting maybe 8th grade. Watsonish music. Primitive Watson. And after 4-5 years of much fun, now faced with no real prospects, I decided what better time to make an album.

Or did I decide that? In those days it was just go go go. I was a manic creative, it came effortless (not trying to glaze myself because it does NOT come that easily today). So I don't remember what the “goal” of this album was, but I started making music in that basement. I even remember getting the McDonald's “you're hired” call between guitar takes in that basement.

I think I wrote most of them in my room, on acoustic. Then I would bring them down to the basement and doll them up. I programmed drum parts for all the tracks I remember that. Exporting some solo drums and then recording in Audacity!! Yes these two songs were done in Audacity. And I had a crazy pedalboard back then so we were recording chaotic sounds straight from the Spider 2 into my SM57 (by that time I'd finally gotten an interface instead of direct to USB mics). O gosh the memories the simplicity. We didn't know how good we had it.

The reason I bring these two back now is because I don't really have a song ready 100% for my usual monthly drop. I've always liked these 2 songs. I like a lot of them on that album. I think 18 was when I started writing songs I actually was proud of. You be the judge!!! That ain't to say I definitely wouldn't have done a lot different now. But that's the beauty of it. 

Anyway they sounding very thin at first. And I was just mixing in lame headphones so you know how the bass can get BIG. I only had the masters So I cleaned them up and recorded some layers vocals on top of what was already there. Added a master reverb subtly to tie it together in a room and make it not so brittle. But pretty much just that. 

Much changed for me after I angrily quit the McDonald's call over being super sick and all that's another story. Anyway enjoy the songs if you want I thought it was a fun story.

well i made it. i lay away many nights comtemplating this album.

i wanted to give a voice to the kids who were terrorized by their parents. 

we all know how we can retreat into our own imaginations and build SHIELDS. and we can weave tall tales. walk around the playground at recess. who knows what the other kids are doing we are CONSTRUCTING.

and this album is an ode to that. i think of each song as a child's fantasy. there are bad things in their lives and these are the worlds they build. til it's light out at the end and their mother tucks them into bed.

but then the EPILOUGE and they're a teen, deep in the nightlife… perhaps a prelude to the next album. or a prelude to SEE YOU OUT THERE or GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL… nightlife albums. maybe the albums go in circles. i will be more clear and answer more grounded questions about this album later. tonight, as i release it, i'm caught in a pink wind. you know you've been there!

hope you all enjoy the STORIES!!

watson

so let me think for a second…

we have a new watson album coming. i have several ideas but need to write them out to draw them together into a coherent way. (well eventually hopefully eventually coherent.) here i will lay out some of my ideas.

double album. tall tales. starts with INTRO TO TALL TALES aka Gwendolyn as it's called now. But it sets up the stage so the songs can be viewed as vignettes. fairy tales or memories or just imagination wandering. then we go into I LEFT HOME WHEN I WAS YOUNG. cuz that's where the story really starts. watson moon leaving the house. he's wandering the city. then we go into SADIE. he meets the girl. i think this is a good sequence. honestly There's Something Wrong in the Neighborhood could be earlier but I have it here. Maybe I want to push it out further as it seems like a strange backtrack. This character is exploring the city with Sadie and then… how to keep it neon?

Options 4 Track 4: 

-Watson Moon (the song). This is interesting as it keeps the mysterious neon city vibe. The problem is it's a bit WEIRD. i guess i shouldn't really worry about that but I want to keep the listener hooked. but i think its a good idea to keep the energy up.

-Concrete and Cobblestone. Another childhood song. Interesting there are a lot of childhood songs in this batch. Maybe that could be a detour/hallucination midway thru the album. 

(Childhood songs:

concrete, there's something wrong in the neighborhood, 1999??, kids they never stick together (teens, ending the dream))

-Dinner With The Family. nah i don't like it there.

-1999

-O Vegas. continues city theme HARD

-Miracle Drug (too similar to Sadie)

I lean towards the song Watson Moon.

In that narrative Watson is out on the town and he is getting burned by this woman in a shithole country. and he's mad and cynical by the end of this song. “im learning something new” . here i feel we can calm it down and get more reflective. so “u were my only friend?” no not that one. what about heaven.  or when it started. heaven is cool cuz it pitches up at start while the previous song pitches down. but its a pretty dramatic vibe shift. what about sick joke? o yeah i love that change to sick joke. so now he's reminiscing and hes bummed. maybe this should be two albums. that might make more sense. gheez i just can't decide between sick joke or Heaven after watson moon. i had a previous tracklist i wonder if heaven was important for that 1. yeah it had i left home > sadie so this is just a variation of that. it had heaven after sadie. so that is energy fading and this 1 is energy maintained. idk heaven is nice cuz it actually has more energy in the second half than sick joke.

so after heaven… “there's something wrong in the neighborhood?” yeah it works pretty good. so this is now the childhood reflection arch. bring back my other choices from before. concrete and cobblestones?? or heaven into miracle drug? how about heaven into cowards way out? we want this to be a wacky psychedelic album. but i don't think this works. nah nah. we can go from neighborhood to what i had before which was cowards way out. ah i don't know. maybe it should just be two albums. then i gotta format the second one. but yea this album gonna come out. i was thinking TALL TALES for the titles or a new title PARADISE LOST. what u think?

ok i got shy with the blog and thought no one was reading.

then i got a bit psyched out thinking the stakes were high and EVERYONE was reading!! what if i write trash!?

but anyway just thought i'd write a bit about the songs that have come out recently because that is an easy topic.

DINNER WITH THE FAMILY

this song i wrote in a month-long period where i was trying to be like bob dylan. y'kno like really lyric focused and abstract. not even needed choruses, just long winding lyrics. i think this is the only song from that era to ever see release. and even with this one i added that little chorus section in the middle to make it not so one note. and well… i like this song. i like how it gets LOUD like it has a DROP like a 90's rock song. that's watson doing ROCK instead of dreamy dreamy blissful tunes. and i like the lyrics i read them as Trouble in the suburbs. i should have called the damn song TROUBLE IN THE SUBURBS. dinner with the family kinda captures that though. anyway i like the song.

i'm working on putting all these songs together into an ALBUM called TALL TALES with one or two additions to the singles already released. that will make them more organized to listen to and show the narrative clearer. because there is a narrative that runs thru these songs i think… an ARCH? i'm not sure exactly what it is but its Music it ain't a damn news article. i ain't phil ochs! ha jk that was an invalid criticism of him i think.

KIDS THEY NEVER STICK TOGETHER

my student said this was incorrect but i believe kinda strongly it is. how many friends do you still see from when you were a KID? i bet not many. anyway that's what this song is about. there's also apart where i'm climbing mount everest or something… cuz i've MOVED on with my life. i'm like chris mccandles in alaska and his grade school friends probably never thought about him until they discovered that horrible scene. maybe if they'd stuck together it all wouldn't have happened!! but what use is it thinking about “WHAT IF” because we all know things are sort of locked in. things play out in tragic and bizarre ways. and somehow they were all written that way. long long before any of us were born. so it is a sad fact after all. kids they never stick together. 

got some hilarious splice sounds on this song like the girl going “do do do do” laughing my ass off on the phloor when i stuck that in there. i like it though but SPLICE? ay don't worry i very rarely use it. and at least it ain't this new AI thing. can you imagine? 

honestly i think the AI music is getting good enough now to appeal to people. but i think people don't just listen to music for the music they want to know there was thought and pain and preference that went into their music not just some blind output. so i believe we will embrace the HUMANNESS of our music more as this AI shit takes off. maybe it'll help up tease out what exactly that “humanness” is. i mean, we always thought it was music itself. the very soundwaves?? but anyone saying that AI songs all sound like TRASH is diluted. i mean some of these songs are quite fire as much as i hate to admit it. and i've dedicated my whole life to music. but maybe i still have shite taste. my fav band is the beatles you let me know. and i like the velvet underground, elliott smith, conor oberst, silver jews, neutral milk hotel y'know all the usuals a guy like me would like. and MAN THIS AI can do Neutral Milk HOTEL!!! can you believe that?? go check it out if you don't believe me.

but yea just gotta release a few more songs before i compiled them into a 4th watson moon album. TALL TALES its called. and it has an intro song. should i call it tall tales? “intro to tall tales?” nah tall tales is mine. Tall Tales by Watson Moon? or Watson Moon's Tall Tales. probably the second. Gonna get some good artwork for it. I just feel like a lot of these singles fall thru the cracks and don't get any listens. stuff like Sadie or this Concrete And Cobblestone or this new one about the Dinner. 90% of my listeners are just streaming Turn Away and Modern World. I think if we put all these tunes together in a beautiful flow that tells a story, maybe more people will listen and understand. Gotta figure out the album art too. That's a big one.

We have another new song in the top 5 on Spotify!! Heaven. I like that one. I got lost, out of my mind in the field. Out where a secret's concealed. It's funny cuz it's kinda like my take on more generic folk. Just musically. I think lyrically I'm proud of it but musically it's got the pedal steel and the acoustics. But immediately it got put on that Burp January New Indie playlist. didn't even submit anywhere. i guess people just like what they're familiar with. Gotta remember that. Sometimes I think a song or musical idea will be too obvious and cliche and someone else will think it's like way out there. Even other musicians. Very strange.

Sitting at like 5.5k monthly listeners on spotify. plz God i pray u help me into the algorhym. i'm really trying to go to the moon with this one!! i wonder if i studied brian wilson's harmonies more… what do the people RLY want??? it's so hard to tell. every once in awhile my tastes line up with theirs. That's fine. As long as its every couple months and we can promote those… that's swell. 

Going to Vegas on Friday!! With Alyssa and her bro Josh. It's gonna be amazing!! Me and my friends. Poker though. Serious stuff. No drinking no partying. We are trying to win big. We have been practicing (not nearly enough). But anyway wish us luck.  maybe i'll get another “O vegas” out of it hehehe (that's an old watson song)

I'll try to write more. My dear fans I love you!!! And hello Julie I hope u enjoyed this entry!!

<3

watson

i realized i spoke at length about When It Started but didn't explain why I decided to cover PRoyal Tea…

Of course I've been a Nirvana fan all my life. That's def why I picked up the guitar in the first place. Snuck my dad's CD's from the cabinet before he was all moved out. Got In Utero felt edgy. The inside sleeve of Nevermind had Kurt with his MIDDLE FINGER UP??? I was hooked even before Mom told me about his death. 

Those were the passionate years but Nirvana has also aged EXTREMELY WELL. I am continually blown away from the rawness and expression in In Utero even though I've heard all those songs a million times. There's  nothing like it, really to my mind. Ofc there are a lot of bands that SOUND like Nirvana. But they aren't Nirvana cuz Nirvana had a MAGIC. Like the f*ckin beatles man!

Anyway it was 3AM. Just the other night I was tossing and turning thinking about godknowswhat. I sang the lyric “I'm so tireddd I can't sleeeeepppp” and I said “you know what, i really understand that song right about now, let's play it.”

So silence as a mouse I pulled up my acoustic and started singing a little version of it.

Then I said “f*rick it we ain't sleeping anyway, I'm gonna go record this rn.”

So its whispery vocals. Can't wake up the roommates. And that's the whole story. I really like how it sounds. I think it's VIBEY. What do YOU THINK?

Tell me plz. Hopefully the Submithub Playlisters like it. At least some of them will have Heard it before…

WATSON