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PEOPLE THINKING THOUGHTS ON THINGS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Columns | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
PEOPLE THINKING THOUGHTS ON THINGS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Reflections on Olivia Cronk
James Pate examines Olivia Cronk's Skin Horse (Action Books) and Louise and Louise and Louise (The Lettered Streets Press): "the theatrical, the occult and the unnerving..."
Holistic Method Musick Exercises (part 1)
Including "Space Chord" (Sun Ra); "The 'This is the greatest album ever made' exercise" (Royal Trux); and "The Slow Dwell" (Y Road).
“Reiki Holograms”: Essay by 5-Track
TS Music(k) Editor 5-Track discusses Reiki in general, and more specifically the books Psychic Reiki, by Brett Bevell, and Essential Reiki by Diane Stein.
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."
A Symphony Of The Mind
"We are all in transition, at every moment. Part of the artist-'shaman'-musician’s job is to help us through this endless series of transformations. To use our non-binary mindsets to help our materialist friends acclimate to the idea that 'the journey is home'."
Things To Do When You Pick Up A Guitar
"Look around at the people in front of you, if any, or the animals, plants, air molecules. Try to get a feel for them without passing judgement or drawing any major conclusions."
Astrology For Guitar
"One day in Los Angeles (February 3rd 2014 from the looks of things) it occurred to me to assign a note to each of the 12 Western astrological signs."
Remember To Breathe
"In the late 1990s I started having mini-meltdowns inside my head as I played: whether this or that was the right note to play next, whether everyone in the room hated the note I was playing now & thus perhaps hated me by extension."
Original Obsessions: “Late Morning When the World Burns” by Shamala Gallagher
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. In this installment, Tarpaulin Sky interviews Shamala Gallagher, author of Late Morning When the World Burns.
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Mariana Enriquez’s “Things We Lost in the Fire”
James Pate examines Mariana Enriquez's Things We Lost in the Fire (Penguin Random House): ."the literal and symbolic collapse into one another..."
Guitar Astrology For Greta Thunberg
5-Track performs and discusses guitar interpretations of both Greta Thunberg’s astrology chart and the position of the stars at the time that he composed this essay: September 11, 2019.
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Reflections on Olivia Cronk
James Pate examines Olivia Cronk's Skin Horse (Action Books) and Louise and Louise and Louise (The Lettered Streets Press): "the theatrical, the occult and the unnerving..."
Holistic Method Musick Exercises (part 1)
Including "Space Chord" (Sun Ra); "The 'This is the greatest album ever made' exercise" (Royal Trux); and "The Slow Dwell" (Y Road).
“Reiki Holograms”: Essay by 5-Track
TS Music(k) Editor 5-Track discusses Reiki in general, and more specifically the books Psychic Reiki, by Brett Bevell, and Essential Reiki by Diane Stein.