Radiohead: In Rainbows [a review]

Review:
I got a prompt from Radiohead’s W.A.S.T.E. this morning with a link to the downloadable version of their 7th studio LP and felt this was a benchmark in my life as a music consumer. ‘Pay whatever you want,’ is a concept I could get used to. I’m just crossing my fingers hoping that this is [...]

Synthesis of Classic Form

An air raid siren echoing off of glass and concrete as dust and debris filter from between the buildings to the streets below. So much skin. So much skin. Where does the mind end and the body begin? You are on perpetual display my dear. Your white skin and your blond hair and your long [...]

Social Insurgent pt. 1

I’m in a crowded room drenched in red, drowning in glareWhere every whispered assumption and every silent condemnationIs testament to the bomb strapped to my chest.One might say, “he commands the attention of a room.”As the nitroglycerin is kissed by cellular trigger.Ring, ring, ring.
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Government of the Mind

Outsourcing torture. Can you outrun the government of the mind? It’s all in the head, the diplomatic approach to talking yourself out of things. The kind of bravado reserved for youth and narcissistic types, who, at some point in the life cycle will put enough red tape into the daily affirmation of self-conscious [...]

From the Sons to the Sun – monkeys running things down here…

Bleak:Some mountain top village, a villain peering from a tower down at the ant sized humans below. The all seeing eye burns, a magnifying glass in the hand of a giant, snuffing out lives for entertainment.
“Deadliest attack by insurgents since the fall of Fallujah.” Those lines leak into the system, cross the wires, disseminate their [...]