visual art ©️March 2018 by Mikeydelic/Collected Artwords of Mikey

« Fool’s Goodbye » was an album cover project of its own, which happened the same week I recorded this « new » version of the oldie but goldie…

words and music ©️1982 by Michael Scott Langley

18 years either side of the turn of the century/millenium…

Listen to the March 2018 multitrack revisitation of the 80s heartbreak Beatly ballad:

visual art ©️2023, 2026 by Mikeydelic/Collected Artwords of Mikey

parody lyrics ©️March 2023 by Michael Scott Langley

…

Dad would sing a song when I was a kid, and I learned it, too. About a guy traveling around the country, wanting his girl to come join him in different iconic places.

Guess I was Weird Mike long before I ever heard of Weird Al…and I still am, as witnessed by this take on the song, stretching the theme to make the narrator a world traveler, asking his girl to join him in iconic spots around the globe, homes of assorted mythological creatures, aka Cryptids.

And to shapeshift with him.

But, as in the original, she’ll have none of it.

I had some fun dreaming this up, and sharing it with friends Doc Neff and Pastor Andy, and with Mary Kay, who came up with the line « of all that I’ll adopt »…

Perhaps one day I’ll « fin-ish » the suggested verses, though I do love it this way, the mystery waiting to deepen, the drama frozen mid-burst at the archetypal intersection of Human and Cryptid…the crossroads of Brainstorm and Puzzle…

visual art ©️July 2026 by Mikeydelic/Collected Artwords of Mikey

words and music ©️2020, June 2026 by Michael Scott Langley

song from « Welcome to Forever » , the 2023 album by Jonas and Mike Langley

(words and music ©️June 2023 by Jonas Langley and Mike Langley)

visual art ©️2020, 2023 by Mikeydelic

Yours Truly playing the beloved Yamaha 12-string, owned first by Dad, then Jon, then me…

Photos 2015 by Beth Anderson, Mary Kay Weir, Chris Radloff

Listen to the March 29th, 2025 Olymprov

(from « Olymprovs, etc. backwards through time »):

visual art ©️2018, 2026 by Mikeydelic/Collected Artwords of Mikey

words and music ©️1987 by Michael Scott Langley

Here’s the July 28th, 2026 Voice Memo revisit:

Listen to the 2018/2026 instrumental revisit:

photo January 2025 by Eye Paddy O’Delic

music ©️April 2025 by Michael Scott Langley

This sweet axe gave me lots of songs and appears on lots of recordings from this era…

Listen to the April 6, 2025 off-the-cuff summoning:

visual art ©️2017-2023 by Mikeydelic

This early Mikeydelic collection of found faces and captions will be followed by further collections in weeks and months to come. Under the title « Visitors… », these guided tours of the archives will explore my documented adventures discovering faces, forms and friends—beings, beasts and beauties—while focusing with random intent on such visual phenomena as patterns on smooth or wrinkled surfaces interacting with reflected light; and then on the mystery of mirror-edge symmetry and its generative power and principle in the realm of facial and life-form-features recognition.

visual art ©️January, February 2020 by Mikeydelic, and July 2026 by Collected Artwords of Mikey

words and music ©️April 9th, 2023 by Michael Scott Langley

« Mesopotamian Heartsick Sploosh #2 » featuring the gorgeous and cosmic backing track from my Bro Sonny Mao of « Editions Westside » and « Baby Jesus Repairs »

as well as my guitar, bass guitar, percussion etc. and recitation invoking the spirit of « Bobby Z-rap and the Caribbean C-rap, with Hipster Hopscotch on the Singing Saw »

and an « American Standard » solo!

Listen to the April 15, 2023 coollaborative production:

visual art and captions ©️February 2023 by Mikeydelic.

visual art ©️July 2026 by Mikeydelic

music ©️February 2019 by Michael Scott Langley

listen to the improvs with guitar and whistling, summoned from thick and thin air on February 23, 2019, between the two « February Frankenstein » sessions:

visual art and caption text ©️March 2023 by Mikeydelic

Thus arrived the name « Pictorian Wallvapor », and the beginning of a series of works unfolding and unrolling into reams and dreams of wallvapor, set out as stage scenery for the anecdote of Oscar Wilde’s reported last words. On his deathbed in a cheap hotel in Paris, Oscar quipped, « Either this wallpaper goes, or I do… »

Visible here in the pictorial evolution is the image for « Worshippers of Mediocrity… »

visual art ©️June 2026 by Mikeydelic/Collected Artwords of Mikey

words and music ©️1976 by Michael Scott Langley

Listen to the August 1st, 2026 recording:

Listen to the June 22, 2026 recording:

visual art and caption ©️March 2023 by Mikeydelic

visual art, caption ©️January, February 2019 by Mikeydelic

music ©️January 2019 by Michael Scott Langley

This improv has enjoyed an extended life, from its summoning from another dimension in the soundhole of a guitar, into the circuitry of the Olympus, into mp3 files, sent in emails to online music archives, and even burned to CD on « Mikeydelic 2024 » as « 69 Moons Ago Last Halloween ».

Before that, it was « 45 Months Ago Today », an mp3 created on October 31st, 2022—a version put on ReverbNation, praised and recommended by honorary nephew Joe Buffa of « Careful With Pliers (CWP) », prolific coollaborative creative artists on Bandlab.

Thank you, Nephew Joe!

Before that, it was an improv, an Olymprov, « 5m rocky acoustic gtr climbing chords » recorded 1/31/‘19—January 31st, 2019.

Listen:

visual art ©️March 2023 by Mikeydelic

What a cool discovery today, July 20th, 2026, while searching the archives for an Olympus recording of « Hot Sioux City Summer », a 2019 « co-paint » with Dad.

On a CD I hoped might include some scratch recordings of the song, I discovered instead this forgotten improv, putting to vocal rendition a couple pages of text I had written, brainstorming for lyrics for my magic spell piano piece « Song for a Movie ».

There’s even a groovy, rocky, guitar-riffic bit somewhere in the middle, deserving of being made into a song itself!

Listen to the Olymprov:

This artwork from March 2023 is one stage in the metamorphosis of a living creation, where zooming in to investigate tiny details in one image became arriving in a new world, a microcosmic crucible melding perception and imagination in wonder after wonder. The snapshot here is one view of an element from a patchwork, a fractal quilt from the hands of the Seamstress Symmetry. And I lay this and all my sweet, life-giving « Eyebone kin-nected to the Dreambone » Mikeydelica on the altar of Her Mysteries, her Musing Mirror. « Pictorian Wallvapor » be one of her many magic names, and many be the quilts made for her hearth, which I will be sharing woven between songs and stories here in days to come…

text July 20, 2026

visual art ©️March 2023 by Mikeydelic