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Parental Risk Assessments
I recently wrote about how skateboarding taught me a measure of resilience that I don’t necessarily see in my kids. They simply have a different relationship to risky activities. As I hinted at in the post, there are upsides to this from a parental concern perspective. It’s just hard to know where that line between…
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Glazyhaze – Nirvana
Glazyhaze released Sonic in March of this year. The sophomore album from the band has received a lot of positive press for its refined take on shoegaze, with physical copies selling out very quickly and having to be restocked hastily. With shoegaze being such a global phenomenon at this point, you wouldn’t necessarily pick up…
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Blessed Adjacency
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the importance of the gatekeepers. Even in an era where doing it yourself has never been easier, the patronage of entities like book publishers and record labels remains important. The case in point that revived my thoughts on the matter is the new EP I Call This One…
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Skateboarding and Resilience
Sometimes I regret that my kids never had the experiences I had with skateboarding.
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Scout Gillett – Enough
Years ago, a friend a colleague mentioned to me how she gets choked up at daddy/daughter songs. I thought to myself that I couldn’t even name a single song that would fit into that description. It’s interesting how our interest in different musical genres put us in touch with varied subject matters. With Scout Gillett’s…
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Black Marble – Private Show
Chris Stewart from Black Marble sets his Joy Division-like post punk to footage from a rodeo, what appears to be a county fair and a horse race. He plays his icy synth on the outskirts of a concert crowd watching a band that seems a much more likely rural attraction. Stewart doesn’t stray far from…
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My Sabbath days are rarely boring. My wife Shira and I often have guests for Shabbat meals on Friday nights and Saturday lunches. And just about every Friday night, Shira and I play Scrabble, a board game that is perfect for Sabbath observers: no electricity and no writing (another Sabbath prohibition). How do we keep…
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Good Things Come Too Late
A new mammoth playground makes me wish my kids were young again.
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Surface Noise
When someone complained about the surface noise that came with listening to music on vinyl, the late BBC disc jockey John Peel (a notable lover of the format), was said to have replied, “Mate, life has surface noise.” It’s hard to argue with Peel’s assessment of life in this mortal coil. Who among us wouldn’t…
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Invention of the Holy Cross
Inspired by a post by @Jonah on Micro.blog, I looked into the art of Daniel Matsui. One of the images that captured my attention was the “INVENTION of the HOLY CROSS.” The image came with some apocraphyal stories to which I have become accustomed in the Orthodox Church. In the year AD 326, St. Helen,…