The political environment in the United States of America, the whole world, is volatile. I don't think there has been a more contentious election cycle from election campaigning through end of first term that has severed the unity of many people in the nation, and divided everything from men and women, to family structures, to … Continue reading Poetry and Politics
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Excerpt: Foreword from ‘The Vanishing Poet’
We are conscious energy. We are energy having a ‘human’ experience. Everything is energy, condensed wavelengths or particles determining how heavy or how light the energy. Energy that pulses with vibration, low or high, negative or positive, does not die, it changes. And the first, and possibly the most important, task on our to-do list: … Continue reading Excerpt: Foreword from ‘The Vanishing Poet’
Resonance: Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails
Of the songs that stand out, "Head Like a Hole" and "Terrible Lie" are probably the two songs I was familiar with before I knew the name Nine Inch Nails. My musical coming of age not until I was in my adolescence, there are vague memories of a muffled rendition of "Head Like a Hole" … Continue reading Resonance: Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails
Resonance: No Need to Argue by The Cranberries
A question of propriety regarding its remembrance, I thought about a retrospective type review. To revisit pivotal inspirations from my youth, nothing was more appropriate than the album, No Need to Argue by the Cranberries. It was one of the first five albums I owned independently as a youth. It was one of those special … Continue reading Resonance: No Need to Argue by The Cranberries
Art As Much As Comedy – A Review of Sticks and Stones by Dave Chappelle
When it comes to Hollywood people like Dave Chappelle, I learned about him just like many teens were introduced to him in the mid 90's, by way of a jeering comedy all about the one taboo that mattered at that time: weed. Half-Baked, an instant cult-classic about cannabis culture lambasted joke after recklessly high joke. … Continue reading Art As Much As Comedy – A Review of Sticks and Stones by Dave Chappelle
The Art of Remembrance
Every now and then he comes to visit. What affinity towards, I do not understand. We understand each other. But there is much more in his solace-locked art and candor than I could ever dare to express. I never knew the man. It is safe to say I could have. Had I awakened to his … Continue reading The Art of Remembrance
The Root of Many Returns 