A Dark Boat is the latest work by Patrick Friesen, encompassing a collection of brief, evocative works composed while traveling through Spain in 2005 and 2010. For a Prairie boy Friesen casts a shapely, realistic impression of the book’s Spanish setting; the country’s history is told in its dusty roads, sangria, and fadista singers. For […]
Imagine being hired for a job. You have been hired on the merits of your impressive past credentials. You are told when to come to your first day of work, (which coincidentally will also be your last day of work.) You are told there will be no on-the-job training, and no one will be present […]
The man who aptly calls himself Buckethead (he wears an upside-down KFC bucket on his head and an expressionless Halloween-inspired Michael Myers mask) is quite the underground musical legend and guitar virtuoso. I had known about his collaborations with Les Claypool and Primus, Guns N’ Roses, and soundtrack work, but didn’t know that as of […]
A Dark Boat is the latest work by Patrick Friesen, encompassing a collection of brief, evocative works composed while traveling through Spain in 2005 and 2010. For a Prairie boy Friesen casts a shapely, realistic impression of the book’s Spanish setting; the country’s history is told in its dusty roads, sangria, and fadista singers. For […] 