Lee Barry Composition Diary

1/16/1999 Lyric line: No one ever woke up one day and said, “I'm glad I'm a star.”         Sent demo of Miles From Mars to 482 records.  AI-generated versions with cherry-picked words as lyrics:   1/16/2003               The Raelians have claimed they’ve cloned a human being. (Like Chuck Barris claims he was an FBI Hitman). [More]          1/16/2005 Terrorism is like a cell phone number: It’s not connected to one physical place. It can be anywhere. 1/16/2006 On cell phone cinema: it will give us tolerance for shorter, exformed movies that we can watch privately, and spend some contemplative time with, like a snapshot in your wallet, like a short story or aphorisms that inspire us. [1/16/2025: This seems to be a perennial wish: recently, the ReelShort app has been in development. It still has yet to be used in a serious way by filmmakers, except perhaps as a conceptual idea. The metaphor I’v...