I’m in my usual space tonight: unknown. It’s a space that has no collective origin; it is the uncreate center that the mystics discuss. It can be confused, but largely it is spacious and airy and real. There is a basic sense of floating, that accompanies me. And I am […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Kamasi’s really pushing the definition of “EP”, with this one. Coming from a tradition of Non-Tradition and Rule Breaking, Kamasi Washington’s EP Harmony of Difference is one of my favorite new jazz records in recent memory; the other being Washington’s Opus Epicus the 3 hour odyssey “The Epic” released in 2015. […]
We’re going down to the valley to suck the life out of rainbows, gonna have ourselves a time. As long as I’ve been an openly weird individual, I have found something kindred in Primus; from their openly surreal lyrics that sound like Bertolt Brecht on meth watching Barney the Dinosaur […]
Sunday in the Park with George was written just to make me cry. I used to be such a perfectionist. What happened? Maybe perfectionism was something that used to matter, but I’m getting ahead of myself. If you’ve never seen Sunday in the Park with George, then you’re likely in […]
I’m not normal. But I never said I wanted to be either. Sentence’s as paragraphs aside, I haven’t vomited words in a bit, so let’s get this out here: I have very high empathy, and a conditioned need to love things — all things — unconditionally, even the things which […]
Goddamn, Steven Wilson knows how to write a melody. Though he’s better known for crafting intricate prog-music, having a million side projects, and making sure that you forget what joy feels like (don’t watch this if you want to be happy ever again), and being the modern equivalent of every […]