by Charles Norman | Mar 2, 2019 | Song of the Day
and in the ponds broken off from the skymy feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes.- Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Robert Bly) Him Horrison etches stark lines on off-white gesso-coated canvas, using minimal figures to invoke the complexity of the human experience,...
by Charles Norman | Mar 1, 2019 | Music
The marriage of rock and country looks like a good idea when the wedding invitation arrives in the US Mail. The patriarch of each family enters the ceremony bearing calloused hands, a bottle of whiskey tucked into the back pocket of his overalls, and tales of plowing...
by Charles Norman | Feb 27, 2019 | Song of the Day
Summer percolates just beyond the horizon. It may not seem as such if you are in Minnesota buried beneath four feet of snow. But here in Houston, where the Earth is flat and the sky meets the sand at an indiscernible meridian hidden in the haze, we alternate between...
by Charles Norman | Feb 23, 2019 | Song of the Day
What is your existential earwig, that driver of desire that crawls into a metaphysical opening and burrows deep into your brain to reside there, tapping its tiny talon on your cerebral cortex, driving you daily to seek… what? Love, money, a better overdrive...
by Charles Norman | Feb 22, 2019 | Off the Wall
Søren Kierkegaard believed that philosophy begins, not with thought, but with existence: an egalitarian life lived passionately within a world of absurdity. George Costanza, the Seinfeldian Everyman who extracted more than should be expected from a life lived absurdly...
