https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/interlude-7-the-grieving-thisisthepart-part-28 “This is the part we’d both wanted to avoid but the way we were avoiding had become worse than the thing we were avoiding . . ” Yeah. That part. (Painting courtesy of www.reshadapullenjireh.com. Photography courtesy of www.rdionefoto.com. Follow the complete #ThisIsThePart saga at www.brokeballer.com!) https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/interlude-7-the-grieving-thisisthepart-part-28 ...

Sometimes, it be not the fear of the tears that run about. It be the acid reflux indeed of the tears that won’t come out. “Hold on to the moment, love . . ” “Slowly Surely / Love Rain (remix)” {#ThisIsThePart, Part 27 of 31} https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/slowly-surely-love-rain-thisisthepart-part-26-of-31 (Painting courtesy of www.reshadapullenjireh.com. Photography courtesy of www.rdionefoto.com. Keep up with [...] ...

“Love In The Time Of Science” {#ThisIsThePart, Part 26 of 31} https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/love-in-the-time-of-science-thisisthepart-part-26-of-31 “You have to be careful not to fall into my trap . . ” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez In 1985, Gabriel Garcia Marquez released the novel Love In The Time Of Cholera. It centered around a decades-long love, kept kindled by an endearing-if-impossibly-awkward [...] ...

https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/she-said-thisisthepart-part-25-of-31 “Sheeee saaaaaiiiiddd . . It’ll be goooood if you stay with meeeee toniiiiiight So Iiiiiiii granted her wish . . ” And she said . . goodbye. Because this song is about a breakup, I thought it was fitting to sample a group who had broken up. So I went to one of my [...] ...

https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/interlude-6-the-breaking-thisisthepart-part-24-of-31 #ThisIsThePart where silences say more than words. Where two ships pass each other in the night, blasting cannonballs at each other for spite. Where pirates of passion, once “hooked” on each other, now walk the plank of purgatory. Too attached to stray. Too detached to stay. Whose line is it, anyway? (Samples “Great Divide” [...] ...

https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/talking-all-that-jazz-toasted-oats-thisisthepart-part-23-of-31 The woman who inspired much of #ThisIsThePart put me on to “Guilt Junkie” by Vinia Mojica by way of mixtape when we first started dating. I couldn’t have known then that I would end up feeling like the song by the time we were finished. And so this song is dedicated to the song [...] ...

https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/raw-sugar-thisisthepart-part-22-of-31 #ThisIsThePart, Part 22 of 31: Raw Sugar “I don’t want to say it / The news is not so good / We’ll never get away / And even if we could / We’d just play the tambourine / Around an open flame / Oversleep and burn / To be back in the game . [...] ...

Last night I dreamt that I was Paul Giamatti’s campaign manager and he was running against Trump for President. Paul Giamatti pulled out at the last minute with no explanation and by some law if a candidate pulled out before choosing a running mate and if nobody else wanted the spot then the campaign manager [...] ...

“Only you know what this song’s about . . ” ~ Alicia Keys They say that the only way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them. I say that if two people become one person, then there are no secrets. Here, Philly-raised Atlanta-based rising star songstress Noel Scales and [...] ...

Hi. I’m . . Druid. She’s . . an angel. And you’re . . her mom. Does that make you . . God?? . . . (Painting courtesy of www.reshadapullenjireh.com.) ...