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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Written March 22, 2020 I will keep this brief, but that is only due to not having a background neuroscience in which to properly explain this experience to any reasonable degree. And since it involves a dream, I also don’t feel especially competent to go much deeper than describing...

Written December 20th, 2023 The early 90’s were a watershed time for me as a music fan. I had painfully weathered the “hairband” fad of the late 80’s with all their plastic superficialities, their big hair and power anthems, and suddenly found myself with bands like Pearl Jam, Alice...

Written January 16th, 2020 While painting tonight, I was caught off guard by a very particular song that came up on my play list, Peter Gabriel’s “Biko”, and with it was struck “full on”, as it were. I’ve spent a lot of hours thinking and writing about this masterpiece by...

Written October 8th, 2023 – This is meant as a dedication to David Crosby, who died earlier this year. The man lived quite a life, not all of it inspiring, but this song, and the album to which it belongs, found him during a peak of his musical powers....

Written August 23rd, 2023 – Another entry that has been long overdue. A few years ago, I wrote an essay titled, “Guernica to Woodstock – A Short Digression” that touched on the delicate balance that socially aware and committed artists are often required to navigate when expressing themselves amid...