Hey all, Valentine's Day is a commercial racket designed to convince you that love can be equated to material goods. I kind of like it, though. It's fun to give tokens of your love and appreciation. They don't have to be expensive. For example, to show you how much I love you, I've uploaded three new songs. First, there's "Practically Permanent," a demented symphonic stream of consciousness inspired in part by Tom Waits and a swarm of thousands birds I once witnessed up close and personal. Next up is "From Salt," a groovy key-heavy rocker about a break-up, but you might not have known that if I didn't tell you; it plays the meaning pretty close to the chest. Finally, there's the eponymous "Shiny RedNothing," a boastful hip hop track fueled by psilocybin. Yes, you read that right: Hip hop. All three tracks are from the Handmade Shelter album, which I've been working on for way too long now. I hope you enjoy them. When listening, consider the following: Yamaoka Tesshu, as a young student of Zen, visited one master after another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku. Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist. The true nature of phenomena is emptiness. There is no relaization, no delusion, no sage, no mediocrity. There is no giving and nothing to be received." Dokuon, who was smoking quietly, said nothing. Suddenly he whacked Yamaoka with his bamboo pipe. This made the youth quite angry. "If nothing exists," inquired Dokuon, "where did this anger come from?" Lots of love, Jeremy