The Genre Wars

My melophillia lead me to classify genres of music for fun and theory(šŸ™ music map ): KEY: genre/family in bold(subs) “Traditional” “World/Ethnic”/Pop-folk (African/Asian/European) Indigenous music (Prehistoric/”Primitive music”[1][2], Throat Song [1][2]), Jali/Kora/Griot music, Kulintang/gong chime[1][2], Tarantella (Tammurriata, Pizzica), Bayati (Debke), TĆ¼rk Halk MĆ¼ziği [1][2], Volksmusik [1][2] (Neue Volksmusik), Balkan (Balkan Brass), Flamencoā€¦ Continue reading

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Nope

I don’t do these often anymore for lack of time, and perhaps this one has no need of my take. However, Nope could easily be Jordan Peele’s best film yet. It was well acted, excellently scored and just as cinematically thrilling as Get Out. And if not, then more so.ā€¦ Continue reading

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AngelStar 4: Inferno

It’s been a while since I’ve dropped a post, and it’s been a wild couple of years. I finally made my way to publishing my first and likely only poetry book. I finished writing my third novel last year, and spent the time since then editing as I sort outā€¦ Continue reading

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Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession

My reflection on Style is Substance’s YouTube critique “POSSESSION (1981) ā€” Faith and Chance” 00:54 āˆ’ Relative Morality As suggested in my previous philosophical riff, I reject the idea that such a thing as “relative morality” exists as anything more than a theoretical concept. I base this assertion on theā€¦ Continue reading

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Leaving Disneyland

(Rated M for Mature) Micky mouse woke up today and the Disney-dollar went down again. He went to the corner deli to cop a pack of cigarettes which were five bux yesterday but today cost twelve. “What gives?” Micky asks the clerk but all he got in response was aā€¦ Continue reading

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Religion says “God is an idiot” (Noam Chomsky)

A series of short essays reflecting on a few of the early points of the following interview from the YouTube channel Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal (& Peter J. Glinos); particularly those relating to religion and consciousness: 0:32 Chomsky’s views on consciousness and free will (and marijuana) I haveā€¦ Continue reading

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Is Eric Andre in Hell? (Nightmare Masterclass)

Another brilliant Nightmare Masterclass, this time holding the microscope up to everybody’s (meaning me and a good deal of my closest buddies) favorite absurdist comedian Eric Andre, and his genius Late Night Adult Swim. Call it a case study, a research for my current novel, a nether-worldly collection of moreā€¦ Continue reading

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A Dick With A Mind Of Its Own by A. Puerto

ā€œMy dick has a mind of its own.ā€What an excuse for a lack of accountabilityPer frequency of use ā€“A dick with a mind of its own If my dick had a mind of its own,It would be able to tell the temperatureĀ It would be able to tell me that Iā€™mā€¦ Continue reading

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My Dank ELDER SCROLLS fanfiction

The Elder Scrolls is one of my favorite RPG series of all time (aside Shenmue). Some of the most elaborate and complex lore of any fictional series, it has greatly influenced my own work. This post, will contain the “corpus” of my own personal fan-lore (“lore-books”) written/published originally for theā€¦ Continue reading

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