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Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Rhythm Of Decline
Feature — September 7, 2014
before we talk of any repentance / I would do it all again / lose my way and fall again / they will never get what is inside of me / (vultures licking their lips) / step out of the womb right into the haze / reminded by scars …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - No Way But Out
Feature — October 28, 2014
escape the confines of your fate / don't be a prisoner in someone else's scheme / leave behind and bury what is dead / relief wrapped inside a goodbye / it’s not getting better than this / it's ending one minute at a time / time for putting garbage …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - G.I.S.M.
Feature — February 1, 2015
Japan. A near flawless culture of hospitality, design, cuisines, architecture, and a wonderful sense of ritual that pervades its society. A country ruled by meticulous and supreme organization, people respectful to the point of being invisible with an innate sense of courtesy. Vibrant, ever-changing streetscapes and …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Wake
Feature — May 11, 2015
(…) tunnel vision's tightening its grip - beat by mutual denial (…) During the Double Ninth Festival in China cemeteries get crowded. People drink chrysanthemum wine and hold onto dogwood as they clean ancestral graves and pay respects to the dearly departed. Celebrating the Chongyang festival in the …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Die en route
Feature — August 9, 2015
Chaos, contradictions, and confrontations are a rite of passage. Charles Dickens said that we begin to forgive a place as soon as it is left behind. There is some truth to it. True places never are in any maps, Herman Melville said. When you’re moving, you are what you are …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Inner Sanctum
Feature — October 6, 2015
INNER SANCTUM. line has been drawn / headed for the big death / your everywhere is my nowhere / some things are better left broken and scattered / better left unsaid / frightened by tradition / caved in scar tissue / senseless quest for power / quest in lies …
Music: MOFO 2016 Festival
Feature — January 31, 2016
13 Jan – 18 Jan, 2016 MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia In 2011, I visited Tasmania for the first time. In many ways it was still uncharted territory and one of the few things I knew about the place was that Hobart was the late Joachim “Blacky” Fuchsberger’s adopted …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Cure My Heart From Beating
Feature — April 3, 2016
CURE MY HEART FROM BEATING.(...)every time I close my eyes I pray for your demise(...) Did you know that in Beijing, where in 2009 the fragrance of cooking oil and wood-fired kitchens had been supplanted by a less identifiable photochemical smell and smog, the approaching bullet …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Fruition
Feature — May 20, 2016
FRUITION. ( . . . ) I can hear it fading / fading like gas. ( . . . )I am having a hard time figuring out what you came here for.You are reading the column of an online publication. I never do that, so I do not …
Music: MONA FOMA Festival
Feature — February 1, 2017
Hobart, Tasmania January, 18-22, 2017 We no longer engage, sing nor dance. We do not know how to anymore. Instead, we watch other glorified people sing and dance on stages, preferably through the lenses and screens of mobile devices, reducing it to a purely passive, receptive pleasure and …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - A Hot Sauce Tour
Feature — May 16, 2017
SPB contributor T is a global traveler. In visiting countries he’s a fan of music (that is the Scene Point Blank focus), but also a wide range of arts, which included the hot sauces that share spicy flavors and carry a bit of culture in a bottle. Goodness in …
Music: Dark Mofo 2017
Feature — July 4, 2017
Hobart, Tasmania June, 2017 MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art, does not do advertising. If you have visited, you will know that it does not need it. To build its profile and raise awareness, i.e. to make noise and attract attention among the uninitiated, a …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Portable Turntables
Feature — August 6, 2017
I do travel. A bit. An iPod or portable device is a great, convenient yet soulless asset to have. It fits your music collection into your pocket and the capability is amazing. However, with the resurgence of vinyl and with emitting vinyl records via my projects, the necessity …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Portable Loudspeakers
Feature — November 23, 2017
As the good ole shock jock Plato so eloquently put it, music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Loudspeakers are instrumental for that kind of education. A crossover network, transducers, an enclosure, additional parts and the complicated interactions of the …
Music: MONA FOMA Festival 2018
Feature — February 6, 2018
19-21 January 2018 Hobart, Tasmania – Australia Nine is fabled to be the number of completion and fulfillment. After nine incarnations in Hobart and not only adding spark but providing much needed fire to the local summer season, the 2018 incarnation was a bifurcated affair with the …
Music: Review: Iron & Wine (Sydney Opera House)
Feature — May 29, 2018
Alright. Full disclosure: While the moniker Iron & Wine blipped here and there on my radar and your humble narrator thinking that it would not be the worst name for a band anchored in the unsägliche genre that has become known as Neofolk, I had never actually listened …
Music: Dark Mofo Festival 2018
Feature — July 2, 2018
Hobart, Tasmania Australia Dark Mofo is unlike any other festival on this earthround. Never merely l’art pour l’art. Dark. Weird. Sexy. Transcendent. Joyous. Provocative. Unapologetic. Curious. Challenging. Surprising. Controversial. Doing it justice in merely written …
Music: Audio = ground zero
Feature — September 9, 2018
Audio = ground zero First instalment - Sonos. Unfamiliar with Sonos yet you enjoy listening to music? Shame on you. They make speakers. They also make smart speakers. You know, “smart” as in sussing out the nature of your room to optimise the sonic emissions as …
Regular Columns / era vulgaris: Musings on the need to be ...
Feature — September 9, 2018
Afterimages Wreckages of the pastEternally damned to repeat it.Exploded views incinerated by the electricity of truthPierced by the arrow of time keeping everything from happening at onceWhile the tombstone is still blank, the chisel is already poised.Distraction and temporary relief running through the bottomless vessel …
