Writings 2007-2025
Writings 2007-2025
18+ years of writings from Markus Nylund’s life. Real, raw, unfiltered. Thoughts, fragments, truths. The logbook of a working artist building from scratch and overcoming perfectionism, self-sabotage and sharing what it takes to rise back up again and again.
If we showed each other our true emotions and thoughts and insecurities and desires, this conspumption/achievement obsessed society would probably collapse and most people would go mad from absolute loneliness. Or maybe we would all become enlightened. We’d be free…
Another day on planet earth. Listening to Chopin’s nocturnes played by Ivan Moravec. Trying to find some inspiration or motivation to go out tonight to play @CLAYHILLS GASTROPUB where I perform a few times per month. Right now I have none…
What do you get when you combine a highly-reactive, super-sensitive person with a world of hyper-stimulation? Me. This hyper stimulation is everywhere, screaming at us to take it now, now, now, hard, hard, hard, fast, fast, fast… and we do…
I arrived in Estonia exactly one year ago. August 27th. I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Here’s a little story of how exactly I ended up here. I had sort of reached a dead-end in my life. I hadn’t…
For the last few months I’ve played in a cool little bar in old town several times called CLAYHILLS GASTROPUB. I play there tonight also, starting at 21:45. I will play 3 sets of 45 minutes each. I switch back and…
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So here is a continuum. disturbing <——> comforting Then we have the american dream. You know… own a home, own a car, get married, have children, work until old, retire, weddings, funerals, grandchildren, college funds, careers, new clothes, new tvs,…
What a weekend I had! Had a show on friday, saturday and sunday and they all were probably my best performances so far. Also went skinny dipping with friends in this swamp pond in the middle of the night after…
I’m in such a strange mood tonight. Not necessarily bad. Nor good. It’s like there’s this beast inside me that wants to break free and I’m on the verge of something beyond comprehension. Lady gaga called it edge of glory…
It’s 4:13 am and I just finished another song! Still gotta mix it and master it when I wake up and hope to get it online by the evening and then I can celebrate my weekend after all this hard…