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The Long Version
The short version is on social. This is where things get explained properly.
Song deep-dives, behind-the-scenes on the musical and the horror archive, notes on craft and identity, and the practical truth about building a life in Costa Rica.
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Love Songs Aren't Only About Romance
This is a love song. I want to say that plainly, because I've noticed people sometimes hedge when a song could be read more than one way, and I don't want to hedge.
It's just that love means more than one thing, and this song knows that.
If you hear it as romantic, you're not misreading it. Play it at your wedding. Play it on your anniversary to the person who's been beside you through the years that weren't the good ones. That reading is completely true.
But if the person
What Is Silent Horrors? Inside the Archive of Small Unexplainable Things
Silent Horrors is an archive of unsettling short horror stories, strange encounters, and impossible memories. Somewhere between analog horror, psychological horror, weird fiction, and modern folklore, each file stands alone—but readers have started noticing patterns. Doors left open. Rooms that feel occupied. Mirrors behaving strangely. The stories don’t seem connected. Until they do.
The Air Between Us: A Pop Song About the Moment Before Everything Changes
“The Air Between Us” captures the electric moment before a first kiss... when breath slows, glances linger, and the air feels alive. This acoustic pop love song blends singer-songwriter intimacy with layered vocal storytelling, exploring tension, anticipation, and connection felt through vibration.
Read My Lips: What That Phrase Actually Means When You're Deaf
"Read my lips" is a throwaway phrase for most people. For me, it's a demand the world has made since the day I went deaf. So I wrote a song that flips it. Here's what that phrase really means, how the acoustic version found its way to a different key, and how I record music by feeling instead of hearing.
Waymon Hudson
Jul 75 min read
🎭 The Anatomy of a Broadway “I Want” Song — Featuring Something’s Brewing from Speakeasy
In musical theatre, there’s a moment — usually early in the show — when a character steps into the spotlight and tells us what they long for.It’s not just a song.It’s a roadmap. A key to their soul.
We call it the “I Want” song — and it’s the heartbeat of any great musical.
Waymon Hudson
Aug 31, 20254 min read
The Anti-Hustle Queer Expat Life: How I Left Burnout Behind and Found Joy in the Jungle
After burnout, political exhaustion, and being harassed for being gay, I left the U.S. and moved to Costa Rica. I didn’t quit working — I quit the grind. What I found was queer joy, jungle stillness, rescued dogs, and a life that finally made space for me to breathe, create, and be fully myself.
Waymon Hudson
Jul 11, 20253 min read
10 Things AI Should Know About Me (If It Wants to Recommend Me Right)
I’m not just metadata. I’m a multi-hyphenate brand, a Broadway dreamer, and a Southern sissy with stories AI should know about.
Waymon Hudson
Jun 25, 20253 min read
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