autumns in dover

released December 11, 2025

Online journal, www.whomikejones.com
December 14, 2008, 3:13 AM

hey all, this is mike jones.  i know i've stayed silent for a long time, and for that i am sorry.  it's just that i have spent the last year taking stock of things.  i was forced to leave linkin park after the shortsighteds that i once called my friends criticized me mercilessly.  the rap community now thinks i have gone soft.  it's just not anything i want to deal with, it's all just worn me out.  i spent all last night crying in my girlfriend's lap last night about it.  then she broke up with me and i cried some more instead of doing something about it, because i have the will to be sad but not the will to correct the things which make me sad.

after i left linkin park i got a call from the lead singer of a band we went on the warped tour with called "...and we sail down a river of tears to the forest of forever glory".  they're a real great band, check 'em out.  anyway, he called me and said he'd heard i was in a rut musically after all the stuff i'd gone through, so he sent me some music to help me get out of it.  he exposed me to a whole new kind of music -- dashboard confessional, saves the day, thursday.  classic bands.  for those who don't know it's called "emo".  and that's what it's all about really, it's about putting your intense feelings into words.  it's the sort of music four-year-olds would make if they could not throw temper tantrums, and it's amazing. 

so i've been inspired to put together my own effort, "autumns in dover".  even though it's emo please do not call it emo.  this sort of music is too far beyond labels to pigeonhole it like that.  in fact, i'd prefer if you not refer to it as music.  call it...emotion.  because that's what it is.  pure, unrestrained, brutal, raw emotion.  for convenience's sake you may shorten it to "emoti" if you would like to.

i hope you like it.  i know you'll like it.  this is how music is supposed to be.  it was a true labor of love and hate.  but mostly love.  i cried an average of .8 times per take.

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Track listing
1. It's Not Too Late To Come Over To My House
2. Tears in this Diner
3. We'll Try to Find What's Right Tonight
4. For Katherine
5. Sundays at Beechwood
6. Waaaaahhhh
7. Audrey Hepburn
8. Your Eyes are Candies
9. Small Town Sadness
10. We'll Make A Universe Together
11.  Under This Sun Umbrella
12. Fly Tonight
13. Burning Bridges (You and I)
14. The Sun and Stars Masturbate To You Now
15. Trying To Drop Hints That I'm  Sad (And Failing Horribly At Being Discreet About It) Because I Lack The Ability To Just Tell You I'm Sad
16.  Pez Dispenser Superhero
17.  Crying, Peeing