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When the Flaming Lips came to Austin for the Austin City Limits music festival, I took the chance to interview Wayne Coyne. The story was in the South China Morning Post, but unfortunately it’s behind a pay-wall. Actually, though, Wayne is such a talker – and a very nice guy – that he ended up interviewing [ READ MORE ]
Ever time I turn on Fox News (something I generally try to avoid), I’m amazed at the level of buffoonery its commentators peddle. With all the headlines the Tea Party generates, I worry for the state of the US. And when 90,000 people turned up to Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honour rally, I was miffed. How [ READ MORE ]
Image 1: Photo of a painting in an Austin art gallery. I failed to record the artist’s name. If you are the artist, please do let me know your name. Image 2: A mural on the side of a dive bar in downtown Austin[ READ MORE ]
A variation on the “You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs” maxim&#[ READ MORE ]
My current art-hobby is making woven objects on hand looms. I have been making neck-pieces on a cardboard loom (cut from the side of a six-pack box, in the tradition of the ancients I believe) and painstakingly weaving row by row. The outcome is pretty rad, but the process is labour intensive. Of course, like [ READ MORE ]
Why are so many exceptionally gifted people in creative fields associated with mental illnesses? David Foster Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Iris Chang. Mental illness doesn’t appear only in writers, but also in actors, musicians, scientists and entrepreneurs: Charles Darwin, Robin Williams, Ted Turner, Kurt Cobain. So many [ READ MORE ]
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