EP Update

I’m sorry for the lateness of this blog. I usually post blogs on Sunday, but this weekend I was away in Sydney recording. In an earlier post I described a musical project I am involved with called ‘the but-yeahs’ involving Bruce, drummer for the Beautiful Girls. It is a two piece garage-rock band with electronics. [...]

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Short Stories to be printed on a Leaf.

Part 1: A group of leaves fall from a tree, and as they spiral to Earth an awaiting man wonders. As he watches the shower circle toward him he is reminded of times before. Times of traveling a damaged road where guns exploded and planes soared, where friends were lost and warmth was a distant [...]

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The Hidden Sub-Text of Thomas the Tank Engine.

I have a two year old son obsessed with the children’s program, Thomas the Tank Engine. This means by default, I am also a Thomas the Tank Engine Fanatic – because it is constantly on! To my surprise watching Thomas the Tank Engine has been an engaging experience – I am shocked and a little [...]

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Art – to find truth or to deconstruct?

I  met some artists recently – quite by chance – and engaged with them in a discussion about a movie by Arthur Lipsett called 21-87. The film itself is not important here (watch it though, it is amazing and an important artifact in experimental film history), but is the catalyst for this blog entry. When [...]

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The biological imperative, or, why sex rules…

I’ve spent a lot of my time thinking about the meaning of life (too much time in fact). I have spent many hours lying on the couch with the familiar philosophical crease between my eyes pondering the nature of rationality; I have often fazed out on trains while watching crowds of odd faces (including my [...]

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