only through will

mens’ eyes have happily seen through the hole of me only if i begin to sing do they start and shiver as most do when they hear my gleefully howled dirge but cannot spy the illusive bard who performs my footsteps have long threaded through yours, mankind but you did not welcome the fell few [...]

Lightbox Poetry: Untitled 1

Found poetry – Brief descriptions of photographs (as provided by their photographers) taken from actual Getty Images lightboxes that were shared with the writer in his profession. Now, repurposed, (but unaltered–kept, even, in their original order), in a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Untitled 1 (The [...]

Concert Review: The Elephant Six Holiday Surprise Tour at Le Poisson Rouge

Athens, Georgia’s Elephant Six Orchestra (a supergroup of psych-revivalists and fuzz-folk forefathers) played Le Poisson Rouge Wednesday night, the third New York City date for the group in as many days. Members of Circulatory System, Olivia Tremor Control, The Music Tapes, Apples in Stereo and more shared a sometimes rowdy, sometimes surreal, very generous set that served [...]

Johannes Kahrs

Johannes Kahrs’s paintings often look as if they are in a state of transition. The artist takes images from popular media and distorts them to a point where the original context is removed and a new reading can be assigned. The most interesting part of looking at his paintings is trying to figure out where [...]

Review of a Review: Amanda Petrusich: Danielson: The Best of Gloucester County [Pitchfork Media, 2011]

  Amanda Petrusich Danielson: The Best of Gloucester County [Pitchfork Media, 2011] 6.7 There’s a place for someone like Sasha Frere-Jones and a place for someone like Amanda Petrusich, and here, she’s really showing the reader the niche she has carved for herself. The first paragraph starts off as one would expect, and sets the [...]