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| November 2006 WHAT IS POCKET SHELLEY? Pocket Shelley is a project characterized by the perverse determination to continue to produce art with no guarantee of ever finding an audience. (See Van Gogh or basically anyone who's really stubborn.) WHO IS POCKET SHELLEY?
Happily, Pocket Shelley also includes anyone who participates (loosely defined) in this project. For example, if you're visiting this site, you may be Pocket Shelley. SMALL ILLUMINATIONS IN A DARKENING SKY
The CD features performances by Tim Mooney, Marc Cappelle, Carlos Forster, Kirk Heydt, ten original songs and covers of songs by Bob Dylan and Tony Kushner. Expect lots of piano, the odd tootling of flugelhorns, sliding cellos, the distant roar of thunderstick, and moody meditations on love and loss. The song list:
We'll figure out what else to say about it (including where to buy it) at a later time. THAT SINGLE AGAINST THE WAR
The single did indeed get played on some stations, as evidenced by subsequent royalty checks. However, as an effort to stop the war from happening, it was an utter and irrefutable failure. THE MISPLACED RECORD
"Imagine the clouds dripping. Dig a hole in your garden to put them in." (Yoko Ono '63).
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Unavoidably, Pocket Shelley is Michael C. Mullen, a San Francisco songwriter who has also played and written for 
December 2006 will see the release of the first full-lenth Pocket Shelley CD, "Small Illuminations in a Darkening Sky"
The first Pocket Shelley release was "I Don't Want to Terrorize the World to Protect My Luxuries". The three-song single was written, recorded and released in the fall of 2002 in response to the imminent and avoidable war in Iraq. Copies were mailed to college radio stations around the country, in the hopes that they would use it to help organize efforts against the war. No copies were made available for sale, but some were given out for free at anti-War rallies. 
That single made for an interruption of work on the first full-length Pocket Shelley CD, "Just Because It's Late." The CD was eventually finished, but remains unreleased until sudden inspiration strikes.