Thought Experiments from Time’s End History …is not homogenous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now. (Walter Benjamin, XIV, Theses on the Philosophy of History). Grammar expresses a human desire to control time. Regimented in terms of right and wrong, grammar draws lines by which people can … Read more
It was the silence. The sound of total silence. A deep peaceful vibration carrying the bells from a church I never knew I could hear from this window. The acoustic of silence was able to carry it as if it was across the street, like an apartment in Paris or Vienna, but here in NYC … Read more
“It was like somebody realized you could take the surface of a song, paint a door on it, open it and walk through.” Mary Gaitskill, Veronica I’m going to start with a secret: I haven’t written a single good song since last August. It was the night after the sudden death of one of … Read more
The Year Past and Ahead In October last, I was at a Russian Circles gig in Galway. It gave me a much needed stark reminder of the power of live sound: washing over me, enveloping, reverberating my insides, shaking me out of an internal slumber. Requiring a medium to travel, the body is a … Read more
‘Descend the stairs, bend your legs, melting one by one. / Open your mouth to the snake in the sand, swallowing you one by one.’ So begins the first single from our latest album. It’s one of my treasured moments in the meandering Loafing Heroes journey: in how it came about, how it was constructed, … Read more