Ted Giffin

Be! (instrumental)

Be! (original music). “Outside my window a redbird fills the morning with its singing. It does not sing because it knows the answer. Its song is the Answer.” excerpt from the poem by James Dillet Freeman published in 1955 entitled “Be!”

Catch Fire

Catch Fire (instrumental) The Ancient forest reached her limit. Desirous of arson, Flames as high as a kaleidoscope colored tsunami. Hearing An ember symphony of twigs Popping and crackling As She is consumed And Comes to an end.

Next of Kin? (original)

Next of Kin? Have you ever been so down and out that your health care worker asks where your nearest relative resides? Then proceeds to ask you to die on a specified date so that the worker gets to win the raffle that the nurses are betting on, betting on your death calendar date?

Could You Be The One? (cover)

Could You Be The One? I am starting to get the feel of the whole do it yourself ethos. Like when I was teenager making mix-tapes for friends. Or some sort of homemade magazine. I run around the internet. Asking myself questions like: What poem did that person write today? What drawing did another person do today? Who put up themselves singing today? What is the new photograph today? What wrote about philosophy? How is so and so feeling? I am having []

Mad Man Blues (cover)

Mad Man Blues. I have felt that some blues songs were off limits for me to play. This cover of a John Lee Hooker classic is one for which I qualify: even friends tell me that I am crazy as hell, but in general, kinda cool.