One of the most talented Soviet filmmakers during the cold war was a man named Andrei Tarkovsky. In many ways he has been compared to Stanley Kubrick, though interestingly Tarkovsky’s films are warmer, and more human than Kubrick’s. I mention Tarkovsky here, because his films, which I’ve discovered over the past few years have been [...]

At some point in every musician’s life they reach a point where they struggle with justifying their craft and therefore their existence. For me this happens around 10:30am, 2:45pm, and 11pm, daily. It is perhaps, a symptom of life-as-we-know-it in the din of the post-modern age. “What’s the point?” Is it the pursuit of celebrity, [...]