Winds circle and bash the verdant shoreline picking up debris at will, Deserted harbour streets funnel rain into rivers, Driverless cars jostle for pole position in a race no one will win.
As winds abated and water seeped away, Welcome eyes smiled.
Everything seemed swell, The gentle rise and fall, The peaks that lightly crash upon a landscape of varied blues and greens.
The air at once sat still like the planet had sucked in its breath, Held for a moments eternity, Filling its lungs with salted tears, A seascape laid bare showing its bounty as the wall of sound grew, Hitting notes that would shatter all that was in its view.
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
In Sig...
