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...

Written August 10th, 2023 Sitting here at sixty-two years old, turning page after page of my final few chapters, it’s odd that I feel no sense of nostalgia when looking back over the past forty plus years. I can honestly say that I feel no love for the “glory...

Written January 20th, 2006 I find it hard to believe this was written seventeen years ago, because I clearly recall watching the commercial for the first time and feel the ground give way beneath my feet. It was an immediate association between neurons that were distant cousins, but found...

Written April 18th, 2023 So, check this one out. A little earlier in the evening I wrapped up writing in my journal, specifically working on an essay concerning a scene from the movie “Avatar” that I wrote in 2010, but never quite finished to my satisfaction. It has literally...

Started October 14th, 2015. Finished May 28th 2023 “I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where the two very...

Written January 2nd, 2010 Well, it happened again, when a perfectly normal day suddenly dropped a crater beneath my feet that I could not avoid. What exactly does that mean, you may ask? Well, first you would need to understand that whenever an idea grabs my full attention, whether...

Written November 11th, 2014, “After Thought” written March 2023 As fate so often plays out, a chain of completely random choices concerning what movie to see turned into an absolute feast for my mind. A different movie was actually planned; a typical Hollywood action/drama, but obstacles of timing and...