I started to take music seriously when I lost my Dad in a tragic motorcycle accident. Just before he passed, I had started recording my first EP eight months earlier. I was married at the time and my wife introduced me to a producer and engineer that helped me get started with recording and mixing […]
Such an odd stance against the back-light. A lone fence post. Straggled barb wire weeping to the ground like limbs, forgotten in exhaustion, being dragged into twilight. But from where I sit, I cannot tell, is it into new day or lonely night our traveler sets his stark, weather-beaten brow? Going […]
As Adolf Hitler served as a muse for German artist John Heartfield, Donald J. Trump has been one for me. President Barack Obama was making great strides towards bringing people together after he was elected, although the deep seeds of hate for civil debate of opposing views still very much existed. In 2009, Dr. George […]
Chapter 1 Three beings come together. They come together as they have done before. They are the three most powerful creatures in existence, those only that may express a will. They have sculpted worlds, galaxies, and universes in their endeavors. They have come to make that which is not, that which cannot be. They have […]
When I was a child, I loved watching anime. Every day after school, I would watch shows such as Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, etc. While these shows captured my imagination, I noticed many of these shows perpetuated racial stereotypes. For example, in Dragon Ball Z, the character of Mr. Popo strongly resembles a character out […]
A few months ago, we all used to greet each other with a handshake or a hug. It was a common gesture to address our friends, in offices, or anywhere else. The current situation is a bit different. People are avoiding the usual way of greeting each other. Instead of a handshake, they are waving, […]
The difference between anger and animosity is as vast as the difference between being an inmate or a convict. Although anger and animosity are defined by hate just as inmates and convicts are confined to their status, all other similarities between each pair end there. Anger is a feeling that can result in both emotional […]
“Vasudeva Kutumba” is a Sanskrit phrase that usually translates as “all the world is a single-family.” That’s what we Indians follow and implement in our life. We love Ahinsa or non-violence, even though most of us follow different customs, traditions, religions, and languages. Despite having so many differences among us, we stand together in times […]
Salvador Dali, “The Dance”, 1957. NY Times. How dangerous and compromising it is. It looks so enticing with how welcoming it portrays itself, flaunting what it has to offer. You look at it long enough, and eventually it’ll pull you in for the kill. Once you’re in, you’re seduced with every advance it gives you. […]
PART ONE If you ever spent any time with me a few things are evident. One of them is that from all the scars on my face, I probably can take an ass-whooping very well and that’s very true. It is courtesy of Tyree that I can take an ass-whooping because every morning for as […]
