Speaking of Music That Plays With the the Rhythm of Rolling Hills on a Moonlit Autumn Drive…

This is in reference to my last post. The Fleet Foxes record came out this summer, and after I heard it I purposefully waited until September to buy it, since I knew it would be a better soundtrack for the fall than the summer.
So this video is dedicated to my wife who loves autumn, Fleet [...]

An Almost-Autumn Drive

Our car steamed through the chilled summer night, sliding in the grooves of the worn country road like new rain in some forgotten river bed. The encroaching weeds that threatened the road’s existence from both sides stood up and claimed their innocence as we rushed past the McMansion developments surrounding leaning, creaking farmhouses who refused [...]

You got any change?

He was young, and his expression was less like a man and more like an old beached ship-worn by waves and salt, yet refusing to just simply slip back out into the sea and disappear. He gave me a big smile and said “brotha, where ya goin t’day? I’m just headin’ over to ma sistahs [...]

Group Thought

The Calico Rebellion

A Mainstream Counterculture?

I read an article in the newest issue of Adbusters entitled “Hipster: the dead end of western civilization.” The article ironically used gritty hipsteresque photos of American Apparel-clad twenty-somethings as well as deft observations: “ten years ago a man wearing a plain V-neck tee and drinking a Pabst would never be accused of being a [...]