On the Importance of Sinning
Preamble There is a moment about halfway through Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. If you’ve seen the movie, you know the one. If you haven’t seen the movie, you’ve...
Struggling within the real and within the imagined.
One week ago from my beginning to write this, I beat the final boss of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, without ever having leveled up my character, and I...
"I Sound Like This": The impossible soundscapes of David Lynch
The following is an expanded/slightly deformalized version of a paper I wrote in my undergrad and subsequently presented at AMS Midwest 2021. Given Lynch’s...
Conversation on/in (my) art
This could just be the entire blog. I hate program notes. I can tolerate program notes as written by the performer, or program notes written by a listener,...
A little about what David Lynch meant to me
Now I know how it feels when your favorite artist – and the one most impactful to your personal outlook on life and art writ large – dies. It hurts. And in...
How I Found Meaning in Art
The following essay discusses extreme violence and general gross behavior (only within the context of movies) You Have Been Warned “To me, bad taste is what...