Imaginos begins on a frozen Long Island shore. In the early 19th century, a lone child is pulled from a shipwreck and claimed by strange forces. This single event launches Sandy Pearlman’s vast cosmic conspiracy: the hidden origin of one of rock music’s most ambitious mythologies. That origin is captured…
Esoteric authors claim a multi-generational clandestine cabal called the Société Angélique left hidden typographic codes in Renaissance books. We strip away centuries of occult interpretations to reveal the human, material realities of Lyon's printing-house underground.
Totalitarian regimes mistakenly assume that cordoning off the physical world can contain the human spirit. The Soviet regime could ration bread, censor newspapers, or build concrete walls, but it couldn't crush the need to dance. While politicians traded threats of annihilation, a visceral mutiny answered them on the airwaves. Dropping a needle onto a forbidden groove became a radical assertion of liberty.
Rock & roll was born from Black and white traditions colliding in the South. So why do some gatekeepers act shocked when hip-hop claims its rightful place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? From Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Little Richard and Bo Diddley to Run-D.M.C. and Public Enemy, this is a story of music as American as apple pie.
When Green Book won Best Picture, critics dismissed it as a simplistic "white savior" trope. By filtering 1962 history through a rigid modern lens, they flattened complex human beings. Written from a lifelong Southern musician's perspective, this review challenges the mainstream commentary, exploring the historical reality of the mid-century closet, regional friction, and the symbolic narrative layers critics completely missed.
From Puritan theocracy to modern MAGA politics, Christian nationalism has evolved into a force that merges faith with power. What begins as belief becomes control that reshapes law, culture, and undermines democracy through the language of divine authority.
