Life and Life Only: Empire and Quagmire

Donate

Please help us with server bills if you have some spare change.

MailChimp Signup

Music

Buy CD from Amazon

Video

"The first soul was a woman in the unformed seas..." Chris Floyd & The Turner Young Ensemble ©2017 by Chris Floyd Pouring out in portions of accomplished peace glorious images of her face Her son sang the fragments of the broken songs From the depths of the Lascaux caves The first soul, the fi...

Reconstruction (Context 958)

"The 13th-century man, called Context 958 by researchers, was among some 400 burials for which complete skeletal remains were uncovered when one of the largest medieval hospital graveyards in Britain was discovered underneath the Old Divinity School of St John’s College, and excavated between 2010...

Midnight Vow

"Gonna change my life tomorrow ... I swear that's what I'll do." A few thoughts on a long night drive.

Our Private Madness

Chris Floyd & the Turner Young Ensemble. Waves of torment, colors fading; if god to pray to, soul to heal, go down to the church and kneel. Our Private Madness We all have our private madness I'm no exception to the rule I know those waves of inner torment So all-consuming and so cruel I have see...

Will You Be Free

From the album "Wheel of Heaven" by Chris Floyd & Nick Kulukundis. Will You Be Free? When the guns No longer sound When the dead Are in the ground When the foe Hangs from the tree Will you be free? Will you be free? When blood and iron Rule the day When ash and bone Mix with the cla...

Sons of the South: Chris Floyd & The Revenants

Divide and conquer, demonize and distract: how the bosses thwarted emancipation and set whites against blacks, keeping both poor while pocketing the loot. It's where we came from, and how we got where we are now -- neck-deep in the mire. It must've been a morning Like this one here Hot sun a-dawnin...

View Comments

A recent painting by American artist R.A. Zimmerman offers oblique but apt observations on the eternal bullshit of empire:

blog comments powered by DISQUS back to top

Joomla SEF URLs by Artio