Happy Mortal

The architecture of experience is less a question of attributes: can you play a Beethoven sonata on a toy piano? And more a question of resonant space.

I can't help but wonder if we've got the story wrong. What if we're not mis-shapen? What if our culture is? How does that change the way we address our dissatisfaction?

Many people claim that deconstruction is a dead end, and I think part of that has to do with the fact that we approach Derrida as scholar and neglect him as artist.

Which begs the question, is the new art retrospective rather than prophetic?

Is this a new dark age? Dark age 2.0? Are we on the front end of an age of momumental forgetfulness?

The amazon beats and 21st c scat combined nicely with each layer of dischordant guitar loops, vocal loops, and synth textures.

This is why Merriweather Post Pavillion is not just great music, it is ground breaking music. It offers new ways to wait for the future.

Michelet's shocking logic is that the serf began to long for a great reversal. Forest over city. Magic over law. Wilderness over civilization.

The fact that a predicate for sex is as slippery as it is makes me wonder, just "who" is having sex?

Not only is the act of telling the truth difficult, it rarely erases any of your past or future transgressions. In fact, it can make them appear worse.