Cold War Victors
Taking Pictures With A 20-Foot Lenin Yelling "What Is To Be Done?"
Like I mentioned earlier, June, along with May and February, is one of my top three favorite months of the twelve that we humans have invented. The June of 2023 began with zombie winter making one last cameo, finally deaded for good last weekend. I enter this new season with multiple projects either nearing completion or just underway. For now, bookwriting takes a backseat as my first new music release in four years—the Taglagas EP—was just released on the summer solstice and I perform this Friday, June 30th in Seattle to celebrate its release. There, I’ll perform these songs live for the very first time:
Also: a playlist (Spotify) I dropped on Fathers Day! (Apple Music version)
Fun fact: prometheusbrown.com began as a Wordpress cinema blog, and ran from 2008-2012. The early entries were reviews of movies I watched while on tour. At it’s peak, around 2010, I was writing several movie reviews a week and landing side gigs writing reviews for a handful of online publications. Sadly, the digital footprint of this writing has washed away. Eventually, I shifted away from blogging, but that experience set in motion the context and theme for an album I wrote around the time.
Fast forward. My old friend Zia Mohajerjasbi debuted his first feature-length film, Know Your Place, at Seattle International Film Festival last year, won the Golden Space Needle award, and is hitting the indie festival circuit this year. A few months ago, Sol rented out The Beacon Cinema for all the homies. We watched Be Kind Rewind and laughed, drank and snacked. I talked about movies in person, in an arthouse cinema, for the first time in years. Over the next few months, I re-ignited my Letterbox’d account, and devoured films I’ve meant to watch or haven’t watched in years. And recently, I’ve got to talking with a few grown men friends about media and masculinity, which sparked this digital art project we’ll be building slowly, taking the form of whoever joins the conversation.
Decontextualized Photo Dump (DPD):
