I don't watch movies often these days. Documentaries are more my go-to, but even they are far between. This weekend, though, I was very in the mood to watch things and, in fact, to do little else. Now I'm reflecting on my viewing choices, wondering if they were in some way connected. As you know,... Continue Reading →
I moved to Charlottesville from my rural, south-central-VA county in December 2008, to take a job I'd just landed. In my head, I'd defied odds. I saw myself as a cripplingly cerebral but practically useless pseudo-adult. I felt my brain, in its small-town country stupor-cum-recluse's atrophy, couldn't process fast enough for my survival. I doubted... Continue Reading →
[In September 2020, I began a series of blog entries discussing the themes and inspirations of my dark chamber-pop album Best Dead Masterpiece, scheduled for release on BandCamp in January 2021.] Before anything else I ought to say this: to my knowledge I have never been personally acquainted with any young men that have perpetrated... Continue Reading →
Was doing some homework at the behest of my new career counselor tonight and thought of the phrase “talented but unfocused”. Googled this phrase and some similar phrases and wound up finding this beautiful, dynamic, dead-serious-yet-self-undermining, know-the-rules-to-break-‘em article about the highs, lows, and in-betweens of being a gifted individual and a multi-potentialite. After being labeled... Continue Reading →
I have a peculiar history with The Graduate. I grew up hearing Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits in my parents' record collection, which laid a foundation for when, probably during my high school days, I was finally introduced to the movie through what must have been a Blockbuster or Movie Time rental. I remember liking... Continue Reading →
[In September 2020, I began a series of blog entries discussing the themes and inspirations of my dark chamber-pop album Best Dead Masterpiece, scheduled for release on BandCamp in January 2021.] (I strongly encourage you to pull up Lambchop's Wilco cover, "Reservations", and listen to it while reading this entry.)I've always been intrigued by unconventional... Continue Reading →
Hello to anyone new who might lately have stepped into me… you know, like an unseen hole in the yard you sprain your ankle in, or a mud puddle that's a little sloppier than you bargained for. I've been meaning to start a series of posts exploring different conceptual elements of the upcoming album. I... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 Sold Kingdom 