LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this truly transcendent masterpiece, nominated for both the Oscars & Film Independent for Best International Film...nothing about the pulsating “Sirāt” is appropriate or expected or traditional or fully comprehensible. It just is. And it is utterly transfixing...Sirat is a profound meditation on the fragility of the human condition and the illusions of safety embedded in the Western worldview. Oliver Laxe challenges our assumptions of stability, revealing how

Here's the track from DJ Derek's Heavenly Rave playlist that I'm singing along to in these dark times (even if Derek was only 3 when this song was released back in 1981)... Water of life is going to flow again Changed from the blood of heroes and knaves The word mercy's going to have a new meaning When we are judged by the children of our slaves No adult of sound mind Can be an innocent bystander Trial comes before truth's revealed Out here on the rim of the broken wheel You

hanging out with Claire Goh, lead singer of Paper Citizen, during a wonderful Friendsgiving event in Thousand Oaks that she headlined Monday night, along with Songs for Sabotage and Reliza...and given all the parallels between adoptee and immigrant trauma, Claire is hoping to find inspiration from my debut memoir Killing Justice to contribute some music for the soundtrack for the screen version

hanging out with my "brother in crime", the legendary singersongwriter Steve Earle, (he did 11 months in prison on a drug charge, I did...