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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Nothing Compares 2 U: A Tribute to Prince

  8:58 AM    

I was never a huge Prince fan.By that I mean, I don't have Prince posters on my walls. I don't own all his albums. I never even once saw him in concert.But having said all that, how can anyone not be a Prince fan? I've enjoyed every song I've ever heard by him. I would like to take time to listen to more, and now that we've lost him, I think I'll take that time to sample some of the immortality he...

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Paranoia is the Dark Side of Imagination

  12:46 PM    

This is a song I originally wrote and composed around January 2015. "Paranoia is the Dark Side of Imagination."It is, if you think about it. Literally.Essentially, the song's title is meant to illustrate a Taoist principle. "What is a good man but a bad man's teacher, what is a bad man but a good man's job?" We think of paranoia as a "bad" thing, and yet it is a natural consequence of a...

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Saturday, April 2, 2016

My Home Invasion

  6:45 AM    

Let me tell you a bit about my home.It looks very much like a tornado ran through a Dr. Pepper factory, then a Marlboro plant and afterward both places were plundered by looters who thought the place looked too tidy.I am a slob. And it shows.Soda cans and empty boxes, of cigarettes and otherwise, litter my floor. Dirty laundry accumulates in piles which have their own weather patterns at the peaks....

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America is Sick, Part III: Tribal Mentality

  5:58 AM    

(This is a continuation of an essay examining the many ills of American society, as I see them, and hopefully some solutions to them as well).What I have done so far is to attempt to write persuasively, to attempt to sway people to see the light, at least, the light as I see it.To attempt to persuade people, I try to appeal to their sense of reason and their empathy for other people. The problem with...

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