Taking the landscape and melancholy quiet of Bulgaria and the direct, hyper political art found in Thessaloniki to make… something. As of writing, I’m still working on what it is, but I got some ideas involving charcoal infused toothpaste and pea soup, and it’s gonna be fucking revolutionary mark my words.
Month: August 2023
As the songs start to take flesh, they usually tell you what they’re about.
I tend to mix & match verses or completely transplant lyrics to another song last minute (All In/This Prison).
Some of them have a concept from day one (Feral & Possessor) & others I got to listen to for the first time in the booth with everyone else (Pity Party / DOA) …
Dreary’s Blueberry Crumble Pie.
Preheat oven to 375°F. In a large bowl, mix berries with granulated sugar. Add cornstarch and salt – mix until berries are coated… Add lemon juice and transfer to an 8×8 square baking dish… In a bowl, beat together butter and brown sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy…
Stepping Stones with Quiet Fear.
Speaking for Jonathan and myself, we grew up in the East LA, Boyle Heights area. We were heavily influenced by Chicano culture growing up, but when listening to our favorite bands, we noticed we weren’t really represented as people – like man, why do we love these bands so much, and yet there’s none of us in there?
Well Hell on Identity. + QNA.
When people feel the need to say ‘Hey, you do that pretty well for being _____.’ Whatever happened to just being good at something because you are?
Eternity Rave Magazine #15 (1994) Reissue. Ft. Lemon D.
Only a minutes walk from the city’s extremely popular heavy metal club, we found down a back street, a venue with an enticing foyer and front wall – Planet Earth, est. 1993. Previously host to Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, & the Kray twins as La Dolce Vita (Italian for ‘The Sweet Life’), in 30 years time the space had ushered in a new wave of voguish electronic acts, such as Chicago disc jockey Marshall Jefferson & London house vocalist Alison Limerick…
The First Rolling Papers Were Maize Husks. + How-to.
The cigarette industry is currently valued at ~49.4 billion dollars per year & the rolling paper industry generates approximately 1,217.08 million USD in cash flow annually.
In 2006, over 250 million tons of corn waste was tossed globally. This statistic has only increased as the demand for food increases parallel to Earth’s rising population.
Though there is no safe form of smoke inhalation, there is something to be said about the amount of industry that goes into producing rolling papers out of a material you couldn’t smoke out of previously.
Indigenous American Crops Have Been the Cornerstone of Global Cuisine since the 1700s.
The most consumed vegetable on the planet is the tomato at ~182M tonnes produced yearly. The variety we eat today was developed by Mesoamerican ancients. That is to say: not even pizza was not what we know it as until the colonization of the Americas.
Four Years In A Vacuum – Violet Menace.
Originally, I considered going into teaching art, which is something that a degree would help with, but I don’t feel passionate about it. It’s not something I wanted to do – it’s something I felt like I had to do, to have a career. The last thing we need is more teachers who aren’t passionate about teaching.
‘Oppenheimer’ leaves out the History of Navajo Nuclear Waste.
That’s what I mean by the detriments of industrialization & continued extraction of natural resources. It stops the flow of our people, especially traditionalists who are trying to live in a very traditional way. Part of that process is having this relationship with nature & Mother Earth. But when communities start to pop up close to reservation lands, that brings a train of industries, distribution centers, automobiles… It’s a domino effect.