We were dangerous and exciting! But now no one’s there who wants to be dangerous. Prodigy singer Keith Flint is dead from suicide at age 49. I can’t begin to properly eulogize […]
Keith Flint RIP: “We were dangerous…”
Where’s your inspiration?
What inspires you? People? Art? Writing? Crafts? Pretzel bread pudding?? The staff discusses… ::UPDATED:: Lex A friend on Instagram asked this a while ago and it got me thinking. I also feel […]
S&R Honors: Claude Monet
Claude Monet was born with the gift of seeing things new and without any necessary devotion to denotation. Yet in later life, he saw almost nothing. What filtered through the cataracts – […]
How can you be an artist when your muse hates you?
When the goal is to connect with an audience, it would be nice if your own creative impulses weren’t working against you, wouldn’t it? ’Course, they don’t all want singin’ or dancin’ […]
Ikkyū and Sōgi on Art and Enlightenment: a koan
How can a thing be both path and obstacle at once? The poet Sōgi said to Master Ikkyū, “I am vexed by the koan of the tree falling in the forest. It […]
Is Greta Van Fleet ripping off Led Zeppelin? Both sides, just stop it.
Some love the neo-Zep sound and others hate it, but both sides are missing the point. Greta Van Fleet, a young Michigan-based rock band featuring three brothers with a friend on drums, […]
Starfish! Hero of the Realm!
We need a new kind of hero today, one in keeping with the spirit of the times, a hero with today’s very best virtues. The greatest virtues. Heroic virtues like you’ve never […]
Rocky Mountain Bog Monster’s traditional music roundup, part 2
In this installment, a traditional(?) Bedouin, Druze, and Aramean sampler And have I mentioned dance? When possible, I try to find videos that include dance because that adds even more to appreciate.
Rocky Mountain Bog Monster’s traditional music roundup
In this installment: traditional(?) Kurdish music The usual caveats apply. I’m no expert, so it’s possible I might occasionally pick something that’s actually not traditional. I wouldn’t know. I’m trusting in YouTube […]
World music roundup: traditional Assyrian
Or should I say “traditional” “Assyrian?” I don’t know. I didn’t bother with a clever playlist name for this set of videos. It’s just an identifying label to help me find it […]
