gec2isabella

There is nothing, I think, more evil than a sand timer. To me sand is an unrestrained, wild, and evanescent transience. You might be familiar with the idea of a desire path, which is the idea that in nature, in the forms of nature, our desires form a symbiote with the land, and the path most travelled appears to us. Footsteps that stop grass from growing, branches and brambles that make walls in woods and through these canals we see the path of every step, every person that’s walked those ... read more

'Ever say you loved 'em? Ever let 'em watch you drink?
Ever wonder why your daughter looks so sad?
It's such a drag to have to love a plastic mom and dad!'

There's a darkness here; For all this albums (rightfully earned) legacy as a biting piece of satire, foundational experimental-rock release, and slab of studio wizardry from one of the last centuries most creative sonic minds, I seldom see people comment on the conceptual gravitas that draws me to this ... read more

"The sound I’m trying to get across, I’m not just up there recreating old blues tunes or trying to invent some surrealistic rhapsody … I’m not doing it to see how good I can sound, or how perfect the melody can be, or how intricate the details can be woven or how perfectly written something can be. I don’t care about those things.
I always hear other instruments, how they should sound. The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual ... read more

I don't believe the end goal of writing is to construct, 'Quotable moments'. I don't like seeing words of a text taken out of a context that make those words so much more resonant. The most powerful pieces of art are the ones whose narratives inspire you in an uncustomarily urgent sense.

One such text might be Lou Reed's - 'Chaos and Magic', a powerful rumination on the bittersweet nature of old friendships, death and life. To betray my own views on art and opine this records themes in a ... read more