Randy | October 23, 2019
This is a song I wrote based loosely on actual events. There is music and I’ll be recording it for your edification in a future fit of publication. In the mean time here’s — Dead Spider Serenade By LFM Dearest spider on the ceiling I won’t ask you how you’re feeling We’ve not spoken since […]
Randy | October 20, 2019
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment returns to “the end of the world” theme by way of two specially selected short films that both veer markedly from what commonly comes to mind when those words are spoken. Enjoy! First up is the 8 minute animated film Arka (Ark in English), released in 2007. Written and directed by prolific […]
Randy | October 18, 2019
In a blur of fevered weeks in the year 2019, a Man obeyed an otherworldly compulsion to closet himself in his New York apartment, and grind his fingers to bloody nubs giving birth to his Magnum Opus. OK, not exactly how it went, but close enough. “Prostrated on the ground in front of his shrine, […]
Randy | October 14, 2019
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment takes is on another detour down a dusty side road of post Apocalyptic film making. We Sit, We Drink, No Guns is a 2015 short film that has done rather well for itself winning awards, not surprisingly a slew of “best of’s” from Scotland where, understandably, the last dram ever can be […]
Randy | October 6, 2019
“‘That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone. “‘When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘I always pay it extra.’ “‘Oh!’ said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other remark. “‘Ah, you should see ’em come round […]
Randy | October 4, 2019
If ever human flesh were formed to personify the Truth that only in darkness can one see the light, it’s Leonard Cohen. Described as Cohen the Elder’s “first posthumous album“, announcement of the impending release of Thanks for the Dance, produced by Cohen the Younger, Adam, and scheduled for release on the 22nd day of […]
Randy | October 2, 2019
There’s a proverbial saying oft attributed merely to “Africa”, whoever he or she is, that’s lent itself to every expression of “wisdom” now extant: “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Notwithstanding the fraught nature of its origin and widespread self-serving interpretations, the advice undeniably fits […]
Randy | July 19, 2019
“So, why do Mrs. LFM and I still have Facebook accounts at all? First off, we actually like, or at least receive some level of uplifting benefit from knowing, the people we connect with there. There are people in our lives right now that we have never met, and are overjoyed to know, first of […]
Randy | June 16, 2019
“My Father, Lawrence, taught me to stand straight and tall, look others in the eye, and that there is a difference between making an enemy and recognizing one. He taught me that a good technician, confounded by his failure to diagnose a problem or to make a thing work, blames himself first, steps back to […]
Randy | June 9, 2019
The title of today’s piece is taken from Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden, and I believe perfectly encapsulates the philosophy Mrs. LFM and I bring to every activity that takes us into the field. As I’ve mentioned before, where and how we live means being able to walk out the back door […]