Optical Illusion of the Mind
A magician always reveals his tricks.
Try It Before You Buy It
Largehearted Boy is linking to some excellent album streams, predicating your future music purchases. Professional-like. Here are some we’re favoring over others. Four legs good, two legs bad. Three Mile Pilot: Maps full album stream OM: Advaitic Songs OM: “State of Non-Return” [mp3] ANX: Dark Time Sunshine full album stream Eric Copeland: Limbo full album stream
Reading 2666: Part III
This is the second part of a dialogue/collaborative review about Roberto Bolano’s 2666 between contributors Jacob Singer and Benjamin van Loon. Read Part I and Part II here. – – – JACOB SINGER: So after I finished college I moved to the college town of Tucson, Arizona and went to Nogales, Mex and drove around the Sonoran desert. Border towns […]
Conversation with a Deadhead: Part 1
Not a week into my “Philosophy of Art” class, Stan Spector, Ph. D, made his predilections known: “The electric guitar was the greatest invention of the twentieth century.” It’s one of those self-evident statements that takes your breath away with the sublimity of its expression. Like a mathematical equation, it makes complete, beautiful sense after […]
Bridge to the Past
For Nas, as with Orson Welles, his first was always his best. His 1994 debut, Illmatic, was unexpected, combative, clever, supremely confident, and often cocky (after all, every rapper worth his salt is his own best hype man). Nas has tried to live up to the potential of that masterful introduction for nearly two decades, […]
