it was very deep for me. While I wouldn't say that all of this music was the model for the new Coalesce, I can definitely say that when I listen to OX and the OXEP I hear a new simplicity in our song-writing structure that's surely due to those years when I was immersed in th...
STEVE WALENTIK
I had this perception of blue-blood kids walking around with ascots and monocles or hippies protesting every earthly transgression on the planet. But that is not what I found. I made the best friends of my life; incredible diversity with kids from every socio-economic strata you could thi...
The newest one of the paintings, The Phoenix, is the cover star of the Facebook event and it has been my most time-consuming painting BY FAR so far. Deep work. Difficult, wild, colorful. It taught me a lot I’malways exploring this in my works: What it is, exactly, that emerges ...
I used to think that Joe Biden’s presidential library should be built on the lip of an active volcano. To me, it would symbolize that he and his team knew that the return of Donald Trump to the White House was a constant threat to the future of the United States of America and the...
That being said, for "The Fields Trilogy" I was reading a lot of history, particularly that of Russia and the U.S.S.R. It struck me that it's all about the peasant class. However, peasants never write history, they merely execute it. The poorest people have always grown the food, ...
She said she was too busy and hung up on me. Star Wars changed how movies were released. The Empire Strikes Back opened everywhere. GLEASON In those days, you had studio customers. Mann’s main customers were Paramount and Warner Bros. Once in awhile, you’d play a picture from someone...
this 1970 Cuda, which is said to have been hidden away from the public eye for nearly the last half-century, apparently in a garage somewhere in the Detroit suburban area. It’s a bit challenging for me to try and wrap my head around the kind of money this car could exchange hands ...
Why don’t my mother love me? Hippies wore colourful clothes and typically donned sandals. Theyeschewedregular jobs, many had vegetarian diets, and some engaged in “free love.” Hippies often traveled the country, sometimes in Volkswagen Microbuses, dubbed “hippie buses,” adorned with peace si...
reported and commented on in the newspapers for a week.' So I missed that seminal gathering ofthe so-called tribes, that happening.2 It was the event that signaled the incursion of the hippies into San Francisco, and projected a term with multiple connotations into the national vocabulary. Al...