Everything Counted, Nothing Wasted

Everything Counted, Nothing Wasted

by | Jun 17, 2026 | Journal

Leipzig, Good Friday, 1729Johann Sebastian Bach performed his St. Matthew Passion at the Thomaskirche today. A three-hour work for double choir and double orchestra. I sat in the back of the nave and did not move for the entire duration and when it ended I could not...
Well Trained: The First Track

Well Trained: The First Track

by | Jun 15, 2026 | Journal

Present Day, June 15, 2026The first track on Sanctified Hunger is called Well Trained. I chose it as the opening because it describes the precondition for everything that follows: the systematic training of human beings to surrender their own judgment in increments so...
The City Mourned an Artist

The City Mourned an Artist

by | Jun 13, 2026 | Journal

Rome, April 7, 1520Raphael Sanzio died yesterday. Thirty-seven years old, on his birthday, of a fever. Rome has gone into a mourning I have not seen extended to an artist before and do not expect to see again in my lifetime, which is a more complicated statement than...
Five Centuries of the Same War

Five Centuries of the Same War

by | Jun 12, 2026 | Journal

Various, 1096 to presentI want to list some of what I have witnessed, briefly, because the list is the argument.I was not present for the First Crusade but I have spoken with scholars who documented it. I was present for the later ones, at various distances. I watched...
The Music That Named the Distance

The Music That Named the Distance

by | Jun 10, 2026 | Journal

London, October 1982There is a club on Meard Street in Soho that opened this year. The Batcave. I have been three times now, standing in the back where the sound is slightly less total, watching something happen that I recognize from other moments in other centuries:...