I’m back at home, for a night at least. There’s a lot going on out there in the jungle, plenty of nonsense that I could spend my time writing about. But I’m not going to, I’m too tired and too jaded at the moment. That said; it’s good to see the boys. I was also surprised [...]

Being that he’s one of my favourite painters, I was, like many others, curious to know who was behind the recent purchase of Francis Bacon’s Triptych. It sold for a record $86 million dollars (US), making it the most expensive post-war piece in the world. Now, I have absolutely no problem with the fact that it [...]

I think this story by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman symbolizes something very dark in the evolving American landscape. Art has always played a crucial role in reflecting the realities of a country, and in some nations it has cost those who have dared to produce art that challenges the status quo their freedom, even their [...]

Last night I sat down and tried to make a list of everything that I can perform acoustically in the context of a live show. There are, unfortunately, some songs that I wish I could do but simply don’t translate all that well, such as Weapon. There are also a host of songs that I [...]

Given the dark events of today I wanted to interject a little light into it. Last week Dale Jr. lent me the film The Science Of Sleep. Attempting to explain the film’s premise would be a waste of time because the truth is that it will resound with each new person that sees it in [...]

I wait for them every night, for the European daily’s to drop, to read something that isn’t bullshit being polished to look like a new Cadillac. At home I usual start reading and making notes around midnight, out here the time varies, as does my access to the web. But it has been a ritual [...]

Its only real if you believe in the shit. If you have it in you to be honest with your environment, and more importantly yourself, a genuine understanding that is shared with that environment will probably take shape. You owe it to yourself to get on that. Its not like every one of us don’t question what [...]

I wake up in the morning and wonder where I am. I hear unfamiliar sounds, I see an unfamiliar ceiling, I breathe unfamiliar air. I was contemplating what I might write to summarize this year, as so many do, and for the first time in my life nothing comes to mind. There is nothing to [...]

Tom Dispatch recently mentioned former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega’s new book United States v. George W. Bush et al., which is a fictitious, though not unrealistic, look at how the President and members of his administration might be indicted for defrauding the US public with regards to Iraq. If you’d like to read [...]

I look up at the list of songs on the massive piece of card pinned to the wall above my computer and sigh. Of those that comprise the 16 songs on that list I have demoed three. I can play the entire list acoustically front to back, but must now look to the labour of [...]