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 “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue”, by V.E. Schwab, is a book I recently finished and need to admit that it has become something of an obsession these past few weeks. For those who have not read it, Schwab’s talent as a writer is on...
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...
Having my Brain Tickled by a Wolf
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...
Dreaming Out Loud
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...
Standing in their Shoes Changes Everything
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...
Laughing in the Sun
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....