Marc Rubin:  

n of 'Maya' was recently shown at the Hollywood Underground Film Festival in Los Angeles. I incorporated in 1991 as Screen Directions, Inc./Avant Guard Dog Productions, now known as Avant Guard Dog Studios. Over the next few years, I'll be producing and working on completing a fully original music CD "Something So Simple", a 40-song concept album I began in the 1990's with earlier incarnations of my ongoing band project, The Godotones -- I write/compose for and perform most of the instruments and vocals, but the lineup also includes a good number of guest players and vocalists, and a few members of the early Godotones; release date TBD. As in all of my other forms of artwork, most of the material on this album explores the spiritual and practical choices we make about morality and social justice, our complex psychological states of hope and despair, and how the interplay of these can be traced to the human conflict between compassion and greed. In my work, I try to inspire viewers or listeners to look deep into themselves, to think hard about their life, their relationship with the rest of the world, and with each other. The songs I've written for this album include "Concrete Waiting Room", "Blindfolded Soul", "The Point Of Saturation", "Who Do You Think You Are", "A New Storm", "A Forest Of Trees", "Four Horsemen", "Witness To Prologue", "An Experimental Life", "Waves Everywhere (soul wave frequency)", "Entropy Door", "X Knows Y", "Exit Music For Hyper Baton", "Here Now There Then", "Electrip", "Somnambulist Bedtime Prayer", "Spontaneous Combustion", "Waterfall of Sparks", "Plot", "Strip-Mining Sisyphus Mountain", "Epitaph For Empire", "The World Is Losing You", "Backwards From One Hundred", "Sleep Walk Fog", "The Long Arms of the Fog Tribe", "The Gew-Gaws In Dumb-Down Land", "Escape From A Box", "Parallel World", "Buffalo Dream", "Hungry Creatures & Circling Birds", "I Love You, Anne Frank", "Soul Kiss", "Turn In A Circle", "Heart Beating", "The Charming Strange", "If I Was Me But Someone Else", "Hotel Lobby Slideshow", "Flashbacks", "On The Outside", and the title track, "Something So Simple".