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Last week I finished up another semester of classes and have a few weeks free, so I have some time to work on some other projects, including getting some posts done for this blog. I don’t have a particular topic for this one, so I’ll just sit and type for a while, touching on some of the [...]
“Callin’ it your job don’t make it right, boss.” –Cool Hand Luke I. Overview: Philip Pettit on Group Agency The other day, I heard a fascinating interview with philosopher Philip Pettit on the Philosophy Bites podcast. The topic was group agency (the subject and title of Pettit’s as-yet unreleased new book), described thus on the podcast’s [...]
Here is an excerpt from Adam Payne’s new movie Damn Dirty Hippies, which I recently scored. This segment is an animation depicting a dream of one of the main characters, Katie. The song is Fell (For Two Musicians and a Computer), which appears on my album Den of Maniacs; the song is edited for the [...]
The documentary American Artifact: Rise of American Rock Poster Art, which features two of my songs on its soundtrack, will be making its Chicago premiere this month at the Gene Siskel Film Center, running January 29th through February 4th. The Saturday, January 30th, 8:00 p.m. showing will be followed by a Q&A Panel with director Merle Becker and poster artists Jay Ryan, Mat Daly, [...]
I have here another podcast recommendation. This podcast is Stephen Fry’s, which, if you don’t know it already, I recommend introducing yourself to via the excellent episode titled “Language” (Series 2, Episode 3). In 33 minutes he touches on so many topics (from structuralism to epistemology to a rant against linguistic pedantry and on and on…) [...]
I wanted to do a quick post about my new album, which is in the final stages of creation before being sent off for duplication. It is in the process of being mastered by Mike Hagler at King Size Sound Labs in Chicago, and we’re preparing to do the cover art, which will again be [...]
Oh, I would so go to this if I could… and were a filmmaker (maybe one day). Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School will take place in the form of 3-day seminars held “at varying locations and at infrequent intervals,” and promises to be kick-ass. You do have to submit a short film and be selected in order to participate, so it’s not just like any [...]
