Welcome to Words, Music and Radical Common Sense!
I’m Chris Preston, writer and recording artist. This is where you’ll find all of the writings I want to share as well as everything there is to know about my music and process.
I’m deliberately removed from current events, but I hear tell that it’s starting. I’ve come to believe that chaos is only a problem for those who assumed stability. I did not. I’m not ready for anything, as there are limits even to my imagination, but I direct my energy to where it can be useful, not to where it enables only self-destruction.
Latest from the blog
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I maintain that short form internet video is the best evidence of human devolution. Aldous Huxley was right. We will do ourselves in with pleasure. The brain has an infinite appetite for the novelty of this stuff, if not the subject matter. The short form internet video exploits the brain’s shortcomings, one of which is…
New Aquarius, my most recent album. Available by download (click it) and soon, on CD! (Actually it’s on CD now, but you’ll be able to get it more easily, dig?)
Never do what Walt is doing. It’s terrible for those with TMJ dysfunction. I’m serious.
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman