Palm Desert, CA's Haidan Hammond, known pseudonymously as Dandy, is the kind of discovery you're hoping for when you hang out online long past your bedtime, half-inebriated and eating noodles, maybe wearing the one shoe you couldn't muster the effort to remove. Put another way, this is music for engaging in solitary after-midnight rumination. So... Continue Reading →
2. PHYSICS a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force It is not customary for me to use this website for traditional, plainspoken journaling about the nuts and bolts of everyday life. Typically... Continue Reading →
My target audience is Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie.
Someone I know professionally didn't show up to work this morning and was reported missing. By the end of the workday she was located safe. Apparently there was a text message this morning that was cause for alarm. So while (thankfully) there is no longer immediate danger, there are still unknowns. Something is still amiss.... Continue Reading →
And here, again, I find myself in the middle of the night writing something I never planned to write, apropos of nothing. I feel I should mention that I am currently listening to Radiohead's "True Love Waits" - the Moon Shaped Pool version, which I didn't know existed till just now. I first heard a... Continue Reading →
The latest in a series of documentaries I've watched about countercultural and/or eccentric artists (one that has also included Francis Bacon, David Berman, Daniel Johnston, R. Crumb, and that will soon include Darger) was Who is Harry Nilsson? As difficult artistic asshole geniuses go, it turns out Harry was of the more redeemable variety. Since... Continue Reading →
So I just read this: https://www.musicradar.com/how-to/how-to-be-more-concise-when-describing-your-music Lucky me, I needed a midnight activity to go with these noodles. What I've got so far: pretty, penetrating existential loner popdowntempo solipsistic boondocks glam gently confrontational rural cabaret soothingly brutal bystander balladry
This is a hard one to capture. So I'm just gonna jump in. As the main subject of this post would say, I am a writer, but I'd better write fast... What I'm watching: Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston (Short Film - 2015) Yesterday I wrapped recording on what will be the second-to-last track... Continue Reading →
