It’s a safe bet that no one watching the “Enter the Ninja” video had ever seen anything like it before. While Ninja spits head-spinning rhymes about decapitating haters, Vi$$er does a Lolita routine in a bedroom plastered with pictures of her bandmate and crawling with rats.
Month: April 2020
From the Archives: Father John Misty, Part Two (2015)
I Love You, Honeybear is romantic, sure, but it’s about lovers in a dangerous time, finding solace in each other despite living in a world that is truly, deeply fucked.
From the Archives: Father John Misty, Part One (2012)
Josh Tillman is probably already weary of talking about it, but when you pack up your drum kit and quit a band as successful as Fleet Foxes, people are going to ask questions.
Follow me on SoundCloud
I just created a page on SoundCloud where I will posting tracks I have created at home by myself, some new and some old. These are all things that don't generally fit into my current musical project, the Starling Effect. But, who knows, they might morph into Starling Effect songs somehow.
From the Archives: Martin Amis, Part Two (2018)
Martin Amis has never been just one sort of writer. He’s arguably most recognized as the masterful novelist behind Money and London Fields, but he’s adept at nonfiction as well.
From the Archives: Martin Amis, Part One (2012)
He gave his latest novel, Lionel Asbo, the subtitle State of England, but Martin Amis has been doing a lot of thinking about the state of America.
From the Archives: Strand of Oaks, Part Two (2019)
His picture is on the cover, but Timothy Showalter insists that he is not, in fact, the person primarily responsible for the existence of the latest Strand of Oaks album, Eraserland.
From the Archives: Strand of Oaks, Part One (2014)
“It’s practically a diary entry,” Showalter admits. “It’s almost uncomfortably honest at times. I didn’t intend for it to be that way, but I just wanted to go there. I didn’t want to hide behind metaphors anymore.”
Beyond the Hollow Tree
I created a section of this site to highlight my unpublished middle-grade fantasy novel. Please take a look and pass the link around freely. I haven’t had any luck at all getting agents to read this thing I spent three years writing, and I could use a little help. Photo by Francesco Ungaro on Pexels.com