Failure to Thrive Bad Animal I make for a pretty lousy animal. Animal survival – species survival – is fundamentally nothing more than ruthless competition for scarce resources. Those animals and species insufficiently motivated to compete, die. It’s quite simple. Now, I’ve never been in a genuine life or death…
In Which the Earnest Philosopher is Waylaid upon his Course by Reflections on “Rugged Individualism”
Reflections on Rugged Individualism I’ve thought of making business cards. They would read simply – DIRTSMITH Anthropologist It should probably be “Philosopher” instead. But that feels too obnoxious. (Actually I want to make several with different descriptions – Artist, General Laborer, etc. – so that I could provide the proper…
My Favorite Poison Drinker
I love Caitlin Jonstone. I admire her passion and compassion, her perception, and her real actual “Rugged Individualism.” I am saddened by the parts of her work that I consider futile self-torture. And I’m disappointed with her often completely counter productive polemic diatribes and ad hominem attacks. Not that I…
The Highwayman
The Highwayman Frustration with this song idea was what prompted me to start taking voice lessons in the first place. I stumbled on the guitar riff and figured it needed something really rocking. Like Toadies level. [As an aside, I love The Toadies. As an adolescent in the latter 90’s,…
Lyrical Analysis – All These Things That I Have Done (The Killers)
All These Things That I Have Done Lyrics Analysis Since you are here! I invite you to sample my own music – In my last post I discussed approaching song lyrics from a poetical perspective, referencing my takeaways from a book called The Poem as Process. The theme was meaning,…