Listen to the album here Thoughts in the Belfry Introduction Welcome to the listening experience of a lifetime, of eight songs I wrote years ago that never got their fair shake in recording technique, arrangement, nor execution, as well as one new thirteen minute epic poem set to two chords and a classic folk melody … Continue reading Thoughts in the Belfry: Essays on the Songs
Category: Essays
Hi, hello. This is Michael. The Supposed So. M.C. Guire. I've got too many names. Regardless, I'm coming at you in a different sort of way, because I don't usually write in this manner, sort of conversationally, or whatever, unless I'm writing long-form fiction, and I haven't been doing that so this part of my … Continue reading What Belongs in the Future Runs Off With the Past
My name is Michael McGuire. I am a 30-year-old songwriter, poet, and author. This is the brief story of why I have yet to graduate from college. To start with childhood, I spent most of my time alone, listening to baseball games on the radio, reading or playing guitar in my bedroom. I was a … Continue reading a college admissions essay i didn’t need to submit
Scott Hutchison's body was found last night. As of the last I read, an actual cause of death hasn't been revealed - or known, perhaps - but it isn't too difficult to come to a conclusion. That no matter how it happened, why it happened is that he wanted it to. It's a sort of … Continue reading Remembering Scott Hutchison
I try to trust in the will of some god that I feel around me sometimes. It's a funny sort of trust- that which denies itself some days, and justifies itself as well. It happens sort of randomly, I'll say that much; the back and forth of it. And yet as I go about certain … Continue reading The Feeling Of When: A Personal Essay