“In the Perfected Mahayana – everything, every speck of dust even, can be seen as conditioned arising. Thus even in a hair there are innumerable golden lions.”- Tractate of the Golden Lion — Fazang My friend Tomohiro once asked me why I was living in Japan, “You not married, don’t have girlfriend, not getting paid […]
Spanish Food Road Trip – The Good The Bad The Ugly
Spanish Food Road Trip – The Good The Bad The Ugly Day 1-2 – Driving through Spain, not Portugal yet, so not the fastest way to get there, but still rushing, go figure…So the whole idea about the first part of the trip is to get to the south of Portugal as fast as possible. Then […]
Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love
The Beard – EP 109 – Sleater-Kinney by Beard Radio on Mixcloud Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love Publishing this feels like something that is so hard to do for so many reasons. The album came out 6 months ago. Every major site has already reviewed it. It’s old news. Who gives a shit what […]
Kyoto Jazz Massive Turns 20
Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple. –Charles Mingus Kyoto Jazz Massive on a Blue Note Mission by Beard Radio on Mixcloud In order to define the new album Mission by Kyoto Jazz Sextet (Blue Note Japan, 2015), and the renaissance of Crossover Jazz in Japan one needs to step […]
Bridging Science and Photography in Madagascar
What is race? How does it work? For example, what does humanity’s racist tendencies of the past have to do with current economic world order? Ethnology assumes that race and racism are extremely powerful social and cultural forces at work everywhere in the world. And that we, as humans, seek lessons for generalizing about modern […]
Hitchhiking Japan – Hitting the Tokaido Road
It has to be said that spring is one of the best times to travel in Japan. April and May when the trees are in bloom and the weather is fine, hitting the road is like a dream come true. Setting out on a trip, everyone has high hopes for what will come. Why else […]
Life and Death on Mount Everest
“…the highest of mountains is capable of severity, a severity so awful sand so fatal that the wiser sort of men do well to think and tremble even on the threshhold of their high endeavor.” — George Mallory No matter how immovable the many mountains may seem, the recent earthquakes in Nepal have illuminated to […]
Watts Towers – Nuestro Pueblo
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. — John Augustus Shedd (1859 – ?), Salt from My Attic (1928) Cities, more and more, represent waste, inefficiency and indentured […]
Beneath the Surface – What Is In The Water at Seaworld?
Beneath the Surface The question needs to be asked, what do retired whale trainers do? Especially once they have skewered the private industry whence they came. Write about it. Such is the case of fourteen year veteran Orca trainer John Hargrove who, in the course of working with 20 different whales on two continents and […]
Johnny Cash – Man In Black
The Beard – EP 9 – Man In Black by Beard Radio on Mixcloud “Folsom Prison Blues” Johnny Cash “I Walk The Line” Johnny Cash “When It’s Springtime In Alaska” Johnny Cash “Girl From the North County” Bob Dylan “Highwayman” The Highwaymen “Sunday Morning Coming Down” Kris Kristofferson “Why me Lord?” Ray Charles “I Hung […]
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