(I Like To Watch The World) Story of An Artist

I watch my world for others and their expression, art & the wittiness of movements & actions.  Back in the early 90's
a number of young people were taking LSD for the phantasm effect of reality. Through rave, neo-hippie & punk rock
cultures.  It was an escape from the suppression of boredom & lack of fun that grown up life had to offer.  I learned to
use my mind for artistic purposes.  Being an observer of everything going on around me, I allowed myself to grow with
my friends.  People became a big part of my life.  It was a lesson in social studies of the drug culture.  I don't feel this
hurt me as being a better person.  I end every email with "your friend" as this has carried over from real life into this
computer world, I have come to call my reality.  Art is the most important part of what I do.  Most of my writing doesn't
come from within, I like to watch the world, so it's easy to relate to but, there is a healthy balance. 

I know a sadness today.  It's a brilliant sadness like bright colors.  It's a feeling to get lost in.  It's life affirming and true.
It holds no boundaries.  It encompasses the souls of this world. It's beautiful! It's color is a deep hue of blue, true blue.
Ever knowing human emotion.  It's alive from within.  It's something you share with your best friends.  Through
observation and much self evaluation I conclude that this sadness holds validity & soundness to the spirit of ZeRO.


This mix is not for the mixathon, it's about the mixathon.  I have submitted 14798 songs all before I died, or was it
14983, anyway back to reality, all the songs I thought good enough to post.  Like every mix took time and effort while
listening to 50981 songs in order to pick out just the right ones for placement on the mixes.  All of the songs I got a chance
to be apart of, when you listen you become one with the artist, you become one with the song.  Nobody, I have met has
ever came close to telling me this about music.  It's something I learned & taught myself.  This ZeRO experience leads me
to believe there is something greater than us sitting at the computer all day listening to music.  So I've contributed well over
1001 songs I wanted to listen to before I died.  Every mix all 600 or more is for the final mixathon.  So over the passed
3 years you have got to see my living contribution to this mixathon. Dying is apart of living.
Hope you didn't miss a song!  Soo Long!!!

1. Doc & Merle Watson- If I Needed You(Townes Van Zandt Cover)
2. Regina Spektor- Jessica
3. Kimya Dawson- Being Cool
4. M. Ward- Story Of An Artist (Daniel Johnston Cover)
5. Mary Lou Lord- Hard Road (Lucinda Williams Cover)
6. Karen Dalton- Other Side to This Life
7. Tom Russell- Stealing Electricity feat. Lawrence Ferlinghetti [The Wounded Heart Of America]
8. Peter Case- I Hear Your Voice
9. Don McLean- Did You Know
10. Jake Shimabukuro- Wish On My Star
11. Eef Barzelay- True Freedom
12. Forest Sun- Saviour At The Bus Stop
13. Joseph Arthur- Face In The Crowd
14. Wilco- You And I
15. Todd Snider- Missing You
16. Tom Paxton- Reason To Be
17. Guy Clark- That Old Time Feeling
18. Tom Russell & Iris Dement- Love Abides
19. Steve Goodman- As Time Goes By
20. Joni Mitchell- Lesson In Survival
21. New Riders Of The Purple Sage- Truth Is Dead
22. Lawrence Ferlinghetti- Picasso's Acrobats Epitomize The World

(I Like To Watch The World) Story of An Artist by Texhobart on Mixcloud