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 [...]
One response so far A Thought For Your Day,Conversations With Punx
Jan 29
US-based film maker and musician Ben Stewart is doing fascinating work. His documentary films Esoteric Agenda, Kymatica and Ungrip have opened up many people’s minds and hearts to different ways of thinking, feeling and experiencing the world. His ontological work is very interesting. We chatted last year before he came to tour Australia to speak [...]
Nov 01
Anthony Bozza is one of my favourite music writers. He started his career as an intern at Rolling Stone magazine. Remember how good Rolling Stone was in the ’90s? Remember the in-depth, revealing, insightful artist interviews? More than likely what you were reading was Bozza—he wrote many cover stories for them including a defining portrait [...]
3 responses so far Inspiration,Interviews,Music,The Art Of Conversation
Oct 15
I spent this morning watching a live stream of a conversation with Def Jam Recordings founders Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin presented by the New York Public Library and facilitated by Paul Holdengraber the library’s Director of Public Programs. They were there to chat about 25 years of Def Jam and to support the release [...]
Sep 19
My in-depth conversation with Olympia-based musician-singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson has gone live over at my favourite music port Collapse Board… Her new record Thunder Thighs is really beautiful and honest (just like Kimya)… here’s a little sample of our chat: I went to a retreat. I have a good friend and fellow musician called Pablo Das [...]
Oct 07
The lovely folks at Australian Hysteria not only get me to chat to some of your and my favourite punkers they’re also kind enough to chat to me about Conversations With Punx. [Interview extract] AUSTRALIAN HYSTERIA: What inspired you to explore ‘spirituality’ in the punk community? BIANCA: I’ve grown up within the punk and hardcore [...]
Feb 09
Art by NeGreen I’ve only really started using mantras on a regular basis over the past year. My astrologer Vic DiCara (he also plays in hardcore punk band 108*) drew up my astrological chart using Vedic Astrology last year. After interrupting it he decided to prescribe a certain mantra that would help in manifesting my [...]
Feb 02
MC Zumbi, Zion I by Arian Stevens/Greenwood Images “Spirituality to me is the everyday practice of realising, reaffirming and getting in touch with why we’re on the planet, why we exist and what we’re supposed to do. Prayer, meditation, reflection, being involved with your community and spending time with your family and loved ones—it’s all [...]
Jan 11
?uestlove by Nizam Uddin Frida Kahlo by Libby Rosof Hobos by Michelle Aziz Joey by Dave Parker “Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive.” ~Gerard Way “Well there is that common misconception that punk was this negative nihilistic thing, but that was never what it was about. It was [...]
Jan 07
Photo by Silvère Teutsch “The first Noble Truth is of the truth of suffering and the injustice and oppression that causes greed and suffering in our world and internally within the individual. The Buddha and Buddhists take it to another level of really investigating, asking, “What’s the cause? What’s the solution to this injustice, greed, [...]
