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As I lie here, knocked firmly onto my back, staring blankly at my computer screen, and it stares knowingly back through the glowing LCD lens of modernity, my mouth hangs agape, my fingers limp with shock and amazement, my swaddled blanket of Christlike innocence tugged ever-so-slightly by gravity towards the floor in my inability to firmly grip objects whilst being exposed to what is undoubtedly the greatest and most harmonious pieces of audiological perfection ever put to mortal human ears.

As if caught in a time-warp, this piece languishes on the cusp of of another era, a classicist throwback to Bachian or perhaps even Chopinic whimsy with touch of wisdom, and yet its synthesized wonder is securely anchored in the 1980s pop music movement, à la Blondie or the other greats of that most idyllic era.

Yet it is not what this piece borrows from precedent that makes it most amazing and the seminal artistic effort of our generation, but what it forges in a new musical path leading as a one-way street to fame, fortune, and ultimate happiness through the bliss of sound. The beautiful blending of improvisational stylings allows for what is undoubtedly a recollection of the golden jazz era of Duke Ellington and the New Orleans scene, and yet clearly not derivative in that sense.

It is this ability to cleave away from the beaten path of musical convention, and to combine such a wide variety of veritable keynotes, that allows the music of this most illustrious musician, one Piss of Newgrounds.com fame, to come alive as if bursting with a renewed life -- a life that could be brought on only by the greatest talent of our generation or indeed any generation.

And so we will continue to live out our daily lives, but from now on there will be just a hint of sadness, a bitter sting of loss that peppers our daily proceedings as we come to grips with the new revelation that we've already seen the best that humanity has to offer: there can be no higher state of perfection; there is nothing left to strive for. The best has come and gone.

June 8, 2009