Category: #02 – Things to Consider

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…

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…

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…

All These Things That I Have Done Lyrics Analysis 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, and the author’s thesis that a successful poem (or song lyric) was one…

The Essayist with a Plectrum When it comes to writing songs, the lyrics that have always held me back. They really don’t come easily for me. I’ve know a lot of musicians who can just start making stuff up to sing while they are playing guitar. I am not one…