Jay Temples Music

08/28/2026

Powerful people don't just predict the future — they build it by saying it out loud. When a CEO says "AI will replace most white-collar work," the sentence itself starts moving capital, triggering layoffs, and reshaping how millions think about their careers — before the technology has proven it can do the job. This is reflexivity: belief becomes infrastructure. Who's actually selling the narrative, and who pays the price for believing it?

08/15/2026

"O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" originates in the medieval Latin poem Salve mundi salutare, whose final section Salve caput cruentatum is attributed to Arnulf of Leuven (d. 1250) and appears in 14th‑century manuscripts. Paul Gerhardt transformed this Latin text into the German hymn O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden in 1656, pairing it with Hans Leo Hassler’s 1601 melody later harmonized by J. S. Bach. James Waddel Alexander’s 1830 English translation “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” brought the hymn into American Protestant hymnals.

08/13/2026

In the process of elimination as to what traits make us human and separate us from the animal kingdom, one trait survives the elimination. Narrowing this down may give us insight into what type of life or breath is given to the image of the beast in Revelation 13. Follow it through Eden, Babel, and Revelation 17, and it ends somewhere specific.
Rev 13:15 · Gen 2:7 · Gen 11:1-9 · Zeph 3:9 · Rev 17:13 · Gen 3:5 · Rev 13:18

07/12/2026

We're gonna figure this out, and live through it

06/06/2026

05/25/2026

"Lily of the Valley" - Hymn #50 in THE NEW CHURCH HYMNAL (1976)

05/17/2026

"Lily of the Valley," laying down vocals in BandLab DAW with pitch correct.