“Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike. Some people find this idea repulsive…they would prefer to see music […]
Friday Links: Just Like Witches In Black Masses Edition
“In Chill’s limited experience with the music industry, she’d learned that being heavily armed and highly insane were more common than she’d ever realized.” – OF Cieri, ‘BACKMASK’ The New […]
Poetry For The People
“The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and […]
Dispatches From The Weirdo Convention 2026
“It can make us physically well, or horribly ill.” – David Byrne, ‘How Music Works’ Real quick: I am reading poems TONIGHT, 3/11, at The Whistler. That’s right, two weeks […]
On Performing
“[Singing] was sensuous, a pure pleasure, which didn’t take anything away from the emotions being expressed…Music can do that; you can enjoy singing about something sad.” – David Byrne, ‘How […]
The Poem I Recommend If You Don't Think You Like Poetry
“I had my first nightmare about dangling by an umbilical cord from a white sky above a white boat floating in blood.” – Zachary Schomburg, “1978”