Sometimes nature is just too incredibly badass for its own good. Case in point: in an island environment that lacked large predatory mammals, the Evolver (As opposed to the Creator? No? Not a single laugh? Eh, you're right.) deemed that not nearly enough large-scale slaughter was taking place. And then it remedied the problem right [...]
My Top 50 Albums: 2000-2009
My peers and I are in a conspicuous position when it comes to reviewing the past decade in music: we began high school and likely completed college all within the confines of the decade. High school and college. Those are your prime musical-attachment years. Regardless of whether or not you are capable of keeping an [...]
My Top Ten Albums of 2009
2009 was a solid (if unspectacular) year for music, marked by two masterful (if not transcendent) albums and a whole slew of decent-to-good records. For some reason unbeknownst to me, nearly every band that released an album in 2009 released some variety of pop-album, even bands that had never before ventured into those sugary waters [...]
A Star Sign Out of Whack
Just a few short weeks ago, Third Eye Blind released their long-awaited fourth full-length album, Ursa Major. I was hoping to avoid reviewing this album until sometime around December or January, when I'll be posting my Top 10 Albums of 2009 article, but it seems that my hand has been forced. Frankly, I highly doubt [...]
When They Disappear, We’ll Know Why
Originally this was going to be a post about whether or not we are too hard on our musicians, whether we demand too much of them creatively while delivering not nearly enough support for their troubles, and in some respects I stayed true to that aim. But for the most part, I've let the first [...]
The Digital Deluge
We are drowning in a sea of information. Because of this blog, I am among those at fault. The internet will ultimately destroy history. This has been said before. It will be said again. And each and every instance will be granted immortality on the internet. By allowing information to exist while only consuming microscopic [...]
Prologue
GENEVA, Switzerland. An Argentinian man lies upon a bed, whispering fragments of Spanish and English that read like clairvoyant riddles. His breathing is shallow and his body frail - wracked by the cancer that has devoured his insides. With a final exhalation, the man - whose influence will be felt in his language and on [...]
A Mighty Soul
The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. Lucy Maud Montgomery ----- Prologue Slowly and noiselessly, the candle was burning out. Once, in its death throes, it flashed [...]
Fitzgerald
a day like all the rest, or so it seemed. brilliant crimson dressed the oaks. pale grey, the sky hung like bed curtains on a morning when you wake, unsure of where you are, disturbed by a dream that was as vibrant and real as life itself, bearing the hideous spectre of death. on the [...]
The Isle
Golden light moves with the silken grace of a dancer, across the rolling waves. Sunset. Behind me, amber leaves crown aging trees and the ground slopes ever upward to the distant, snow-capped peaks. I feel the cool, frail blades of grass beneath my bare feet as I sit, my knees held tight to my chest. [...]
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