“where is your drive?” -Theo Parrish.

i do not pretend at canonical authority: this selection focuses on specific musical axes that interested me. but it also makes an argument about What Matters, both within and without genre, and an argument that the areas I’ve…

Today there is nothing more boring than a finely considered, middle-of-the-road position between two extremes. If it’s not a life or death struggle for the soul of an art form, who cares? On the internet, no one can hear you nuance. This is why I…

I seldom “brainstorm” subjects to write about. Once I’m interested on a topic, I’ll spend as much time as is feasible thinking about it, and how to tackle it in writing. But the impulse to first put “pen to paper” (open Google Docs) comes from a pressure that builds gradually from…