Tag: america

Ecocide and the Soul of a Nation

Estrangement from nature is estrangement from the landscape of the soul. ...

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Mystic Chemist: The LSD Biography of Albert Hofmann

' a chemist who does not get mystic looking at the wonders of creation that he's researching is not a real chemist' - Albert Hofmann...

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Henry Diltz Interview [Part 2]

It was all peace and love; let the universe decide, do it the right way. That’s the way life should be and maybe it will....

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Silent Old Mtns : Naked Raccoon [Interview]

I don't think anyone has heard these tracks outside of the band, except maybe my Dad...

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Fortune’s Fools

When questioned by the youth of future generations about how you responded when the earth was burning, will you reply that you went to the mall staring at a glowing electronic box, engaged in...

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Tyranny of the Reasonable

Tyranny of the Reasonable: Popular Complacency in an Era of Economic Exploitation and Perpetual War...

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Within The National (In)Security State 2

Dismiss the cracked brain guardians of perpetual and displaced fear and regain the ability to move freely in the world...

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Within The National (In)Security State: Fear as a Constant Companion

How belligerently ignorant nationalists will forfeit their rights for the illusion of safety....

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The Icarus Line on Giant Drag

Joe Cardamone of the Icarus Line talks about producing the 2013 release by Giant Drag - Waking Up is Hard to Do....

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The Most Interesting Man In The World: George W. Bush

The overall trait of the dog is loyalty, an instinct of which George W. Bush seemed to possess none. So why is he painting them?...

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Hank Ray : Interview [Part 1]

In advance of the release of Sinister Funtime, Hank Ray talks (at length) about music, The Cramps, labels and lyrics...

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New York Finds Cool Again: Fountain Art Fair

'It was the hippest New York scene outside of the eastbound L train you’ll find until next year.' Scott Laudati reports from New York's Fountain Art Fair...

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Rigorous Imagination and the Polis of the Psyche

Circumstances do not change unless perceptions change. ...

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Empire Of Panic And Ephemera

Keep buying stuff. More stuff! As long as you buy stuff, nobody needs to get hurt. The politics of Empire...

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Freedom Toast : Southern Style

I know you ladies like it thick ...

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The Great Dismal

Our actions exist as living architecture that surrounds the breathing moment. Future generations will dwell in the world we erect, thought by thought, deed by deed....

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Super Mario Brothers, Reptilian Rape and the Hollow Earth Theory

The ideology of imperialism runs deep in Bowser. He is also, at least, a kidnapper, but more probably a pedophile. ...

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Anger, Passion, and Destiny in the USA

There has been a deadly legacy wrought by social structures that inflict shame and thus sow seeds of inarticulate rage. ...

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A Financial Cliff, a War on Christmas, and Other Dim Tidings

The conversation, between humankind and catastrophic natural phenomenon, tends to be a bit one-sided....

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Of Grief and Hope

Climate chaos. Dying oceans. The degradation of U.S. corporate/militarist empire and the concomitant collapse of the global, neoliberal order. Our child will be born into a world where there will be...

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After the Flood

In the presence of death and in the aftermath of great storms, we apprehend how vainly we cling to the illusion of certainty and permanence. ...

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Alexandra Ackerman: Interview

Alexandra Ackerman: an LA transplant with a cache of romance novel covers, film, television and stage performances under her belt. When it comes to Hollywood substance is usually traded for beauty,...

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Loitered Lens: Two Gallants

Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity of...

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Brown Sugar and Mustard-Glazed Bone-in Ham

Well the holidays are indeed coming and as y’all know, a homemade baked ham is a southern holiday staple. ...

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Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

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The cookie crumbles beneath the foot of the dancer (Sam Pink)

'I didn’t write in high school. I barely talk about writing to most people in real life because no one cares and I kind of agree, I like not talking about it. ' Scott Laudati interviews author Sam...

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Empire’s Halloween Part 2

The US Empire is dead meat. We should lose the imagery of a noble and lofty bald eagle: rotting road kill should be proclaimed our official national animal, vampires and werewolves offer a more apt...

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Col. Jon’s Cherokee Corn Pone

It’s another favourite snack in these parts and something that I like to have the little woman cook up for me whilst I hang up the goat on Hallowe’en. Up until now this has been a very closely...

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Grieving for Greed. Welteschmerz Pt. 1

If the end of the commercialist capitalist empire gets you down, the right thing to do is to grieve for it. Then move on....

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Big Boys Gone Bananas* [Film]

Back in 2009 director Frederik Gertten was scheduled to premiere his latest film at the LA Film Festival. Called simply Bananas, it dealt with alleged abuses suffered by Nicaraguan workers who worked...

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