May 08
If you’re not familiar with this project, that is so very dear to my heart and always a constant work in progress, go here to learn more. The issue features: Duane Peters & Corey Parks, Franklin Rhi, Ben Weasel, Russ Rankin, Brad Warner and Lord Ezec (snippets from the chats below). CWP #7 comes in a [...]
Feb 20
Do you create art every day? Certainly, I finished a painting this morning. I was working on a song very late last night and I mixed it this morning. I create something every day because it is a reaction. I don’t make art to be popular or seen, I make it because my hands have [...]
Feb 15
Before I discovered prayer I used to have crazy panic attacks—I would think I was dying. I would go crazy. I thought I was having a heart attack. It’s the worst! I couldn’t even leave my house. I would look at airplanes and have an anxiety attack. I knew I’d have to be in a [...]
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Dec 08
One of the first punk rock vocalists I ever heard was Keith Morris. My brother gave me Circle Jerks’ Group Sex on vinyl when I was a teen, it was one of the records that was my gateway into punk rock. Later on I’d pick up Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown EP and over the years [...]
Oct 03
On the weekend as part of Australia’s leading independent arts festival This Is Not Art – which “is a supercharged convergence of writers, performers, thinkers, independent and industry musicians, creative researchers, electronic artists, dilettantes, and DIY culture makers in a showcase featuring over 400 local, national and international artists” – The Golden Stapler Awards for [...]
Sep 23
A thought for your day: I don’t believe that music can have a healing effect. I think it can get your heart rate up and get you to snap out of a funk you’re in as it’s often an extreme stimulus. I think it can redirect and reprioritise your energies at a given moment. It [...]
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Sep 07
This Week: Father’s Day, fresh flowers, positive affirmations, art, art & more art, getting rad mail, lots of research for various upcoming projects, drinking a million cups of jasmine green tea, working on my health, finishing Conversations with Punx #6 ‘Faith’ and gearing up for the Australian spring/summer music festival season! It’s going to be [...]
Aug 30
A thought for your day: When you come up with it [punk rock], it almost becomes a safety blanket. It becomes your identity. It’s what helped point you in the right direction. For me it was easy to move on because of, once again, my rebellious nature. All of a sudden punk rock became the [...]
Aug 27
A thought for your day: The present is the most difficult time for most people; it’s the only one actually engaging you. The future isn’t engaging because it doesn’t exist yet and the past isn’t engaging because you can’t do anything about it. The present is the only time when we can actually do anything. [...]
Aug 24
This Week: Gardening & harvesting homegrown veggies/fruit, puppy hangs with lady Vincent, organising shoe boxes bursting of interview tapes, Melbourne adventures, tram rides, being excited by seeing three awesome different genre bands on the same bill, overnight stays in Gregorian lodgings built in the 1800s, marveling in awe at ancient artifacts at the Tutankhamun and [...]
