Steve Parsons, for those who don’t know, is a songwriter from Newfoundland, Canada. He’s your old storyteller, much in the vein of classic artists like Dylan and Syd Barrett, and songs like those contained on his latest release A Western Goodbye (on which he plays all your standard instruments) are sorely needed in this day and age. […]
And for my next trick, I will eviscerate the emo label…
The ‘emo’ label is loosely based on the term emotional. It takes the term, sectors it off and slaps negative connotations onto it, implying that’s it’s a ‘bad thing’ to be an emotional being. To be or look emotional means you are apart of the entire section of society deemed emo because you look, act, […]
AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND
AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND More years ago than I admit to, while on a cross country skiing adventure, I came to the shore of a lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Before me was an unbroken snow-field, untouched, unmarked, bathed in the soft red-gold glow cast by the last rays of […]
POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
BECKETT AND MORGAN – TWO PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMODERNISM It may be that some rough beast will slouch again toward Bethlehem. It may be that some natural cataclysm, or extraterrestrial intelligence will shock the Earth into some sane planetary awareness of its destiny. I have no prophecy in me, only some slight […]