Art from Tragedy – Dylan’s Tangled Up In Blue
Written July 6th, 2025 I will ask for patience here at the outset, for once again indulging in my admiration for Bob Dylan’s otherworldly skill with words. For the frustrated poet in me, a man who has spent a lifetime on his knees at the altar of words, I...
U2’s “A Sort of Homecoming”
Written April 20th, 2018 I received the package today, a few days earlier than expected, and once I opened the box and looked at my purchase, a flood of memories came pouring in that must be mentioned here. The purchase in question is U2’s fourth album “The Unforgettable Fire”,...
Zen and the Art of Hitchhiking
Written January 10th, 2025 Question: “So, how would you define yourself in a single word?” Reply: “I’m a Hitchhiker.” _____ That question was indeed posed to me some thirty years ago by a co-worker, and although I did respond precisely that way, I didn’t fully understand why that particular...
Maggie’s Farm – Dylan’s Middle Finger to the Folk Scene
Written January 5th, 2025 Fresh from just watching the excellent new movie about Bob Dylan, “A Complete Unknown,” I suddenly find the man squarely back on my mind. Particularly the theme the movie centered around; that being his ugly divorce from the folk music scene. Times and tastes change...
Stevie Wonder’s “Ode To Joy”
Written December 28th, 2024 I live for these moments, the times when an unsuspecting curiosity suddenly ignites a multi-day obsession. Words will leap off a page and suddenly I find myself consumed with chasing down threads of ideas. The page that I’m referring to there is actually not book...
Achtung Baby – Bono’s Nod to C.S. Lewis
Written August, 2024 After years of sitting dormant in some forgotten crevasse of my mind, I believe it’s now time to jot down a long-held opinion and attempt to shape it into something close to a coherent theory. The idea that I’m referring to was born out of U2’s...
How Time Makes Us Invisible
Written June 28th, 2024 I recently finished reading “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue”, a book by V.E. Schwab, which has held me surprisingly spellbound for the past few weeks now. From beginning to end, Schwab’s talent as a writer was clearly evident by her ability to capture and...
A Dance that Tickles the Ear of Philosophy
Written February 18th, 2024 I will need to stretch way back on this one, all the way to 1998, to the original journal entry I wrote regarding this forgotten gem, which centered on a PBS documentary that I stumbled across one evening focusing on the famous Chelloist, Yo Yo...
Slaying Dragons One Note at a Time
Started April 6th, 2006 – Finished February 14th, 2024 A few weeks ago, I had the good fortune to stumbled across an artist that I could not have imagined would find a spot on my radar. In all honesty, I’m fairly shocked. It all began innocently enough on a...
Dionysus Surfing the Waves of Apollo
Written July 25th, 2020 It’s been many years ago now, perhaps a few decades even, that Nietzsche first introduced the concept to me. Before that, all I understood of Apollo and Dionysus was they were Greek Gods of some sort, which could have meant anything. If I had professed...