Soundtrack for Neon Empire
I put together an imaginary soundtrack for Neon Empire. It follows thematically with the chapters of the book. Check it out on Spotify!
Category: Books
What Aldous Huxley Taught Us
Fifty-five years ago, on this day in 1963, Aldous Huxley passed through a psychedelic portal to the other side. His death was overshadowed by the assassination of JFK on the same day, but the legacy of his most popular novel, Brave New World, lives on. Even fifty-five years after his death, Aldous Huxley’s best-known work, the …
Diary of a Madman
Yesterday I did something I haven’t done in years – revisit my old blog, Guirilandia. It was curious to see that the analytics looked like, and was surprised to see it still received a steady stream of traffic. One of the most popular posts is one titled, The Real Gas Natural. The title was a …
Isn’t there something in living dangerously?
The Savage nodded, frowning. “You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ’tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end …
Continue reading “Isn’t there something in living dangerously?”
Fiction & Lies
We like affirmation of our own thoughts, especially when they’re inchoate and scattered – I know I do. Despite all the sentences I’ve churned out over the years, I often need someone else to articulate an incomplete thought process, much like a house needs an architect to draft a blueprint prior to being built. In …
My Anthony Bourdain story
It may seem strange to start a story about my encounter with Anthony Bourdain with an anecdote about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, but if it weren’t for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu – BJJ for short – I don’t think I’d ever have appreciated him in the way I do. Because of BJJ I met the man first, …
The newspapers of Utopia would be terribly dull
I’m reading 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke for the first time ever, after an interview with Christopher Nolan about his 70mm restoration of the movie adaptation piqued my interest in the book. I had always put off reading 2001 because I felt I already knew the story. Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece had left …
Continue reading “The newspapers of Utopia would be terribly dull”