Meet Krampus, the Anti-Santa. Last year I got a little obsessed with this sinister Alpine folk hero (or is that villain, depends on your perspective, I suppose!) known for stealing, beating, and otherwise visiting hell upon bad little children in pre-Christian days. This pagan demon, whose name derives from the Old German word for claws, would tear […]
I often rest in the pocket of this song and return to it again and again. I will listen to it repetitively, often crying the first two rounds, until I am lifted, cleansed, released…If you’ve never heard this Townes van Zandt classic (written in 1981), well, prepare for a holy experience. Music is church for […]
It was akin to watching some gearhead-DJ putz around on-stage with his computer while everyone watches and doesn’t dance (white people: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em).
I find that this mindset overrides the peculiarities of circumstance and condition, and discourages variant thinking.
I’m hoping to do more of these audio mash-ups, some thematic (like this one), and some inspired by William Burroughs’ cut-up method (with no logic or predetermined meaning). My intern, Thomas Sidman, did the editing on this one, so special shout out to him! “Greed is Good” Mash Up #1/copyright Jane Harris Tweet
I’ve always liked the idea of past lives, of being part of a larger energy force that moves from one body in space/time to the next, perhaps even inhabiting several simultaneously (parallel universes and all). In Haitian Voudou, these forces are referred to as one’s Maît–tête, or master of the head, a dominant spirit who shares […]
