Monday, November 22, 2010

Living While Falling teaser 1

This is the first teaser for Living While Falling and features some of the musical scoring of Josh Hinck aka euphoreador. ; Living While Falling is a 60 minute narrative film about a young man who begins to see other possibilities, other paths of fate, as though they are right before his eyes. Some of these visions are as harmless as a change in hairstyle or wardrobe, but some may change the course of his life forever. Does everything rely on random chance, or does he still have the ability to make choices when he can not be sure what is happening in the world around him?
The film represents several years of effort by many talented young filmmakers working together when the strange demands of real life would allow it. If you watch one no-budget psychological drama with great actors and high definition excitement this year, make it Living While Falling!

Living While Falling teaser 2

This is the second teaser for Living While Falling and features some of the musical scoring of Josh Hinck aka euphoreador. ; Living While Falling is a 60 minute narrative film about a young man who begins to see other possibilities, other paths of fate, as though they are right before his eyes. Some of these visions are as harmless as a change in hairstyle or wardrobe, but some may change the course of his life forever. Does everything rely on random chance, or does he still have the ability to make choices when he can not be sure what is happening in the world around him?
The film represents several years of effort by many talented young filmmakers working together when the strange demands of real life would allow it. If you watch one no-budget psychological drama with great actors and high definition excitement this year, make it Living While Falling!See the full movie here http://vimeo.com/16136305

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Burning - Precipice Dance Theater

Burning - Precipice Dance Theater



The 2002 performance for Risa Cohen's Precipice Dance Theater at the Theater de la Jeune Lune for the art/performance party 360 : A Revolutionary Dance Party brings together the aerial artistry and sensual motion of acclaimed dancer and choreographer, Risa Cohen, and the video and partial original music of artist and musician, Josh Hinck, into a powerful lyric narrative dance performance of overcoming one's inner demons to flicker through the "Burning" as a phoenix rising to new heights of self awareness and intimacy. Choreography & Direction - Risa Cohen, Josh Hinck; Performers - Risa Cohen, Bill Gladen, Heather Prazich, John Morris; Original Music & Video - Josh Hinck; Set design - Ron Holevas, Josh Hinck


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Monday, October 25, 2010

Living While Falling

Living While Falling

Living While Falling from Ian Hinck on Vimeo.


Living While Falling is a 60 minute narrative film about a young man who begins to see other possibilities, other paths of fate, as though they are right before his eyes. Some of these visions are as harmless as a change in hairstyle or wardrobe, but some may change the course of his life forever. Does everything rely on random chance, or does he still have the ability to make choices when he can not be sure what is happening in the world around him?

The film represents several years of effort by many talented young filmmakers working together when the strange demands of real life would allow it. If you watch one no-budget psychological drama with great actors and high definition excitement this year, make it Living While Falling!

Josh Hinck composed about half of the musical score for the film.


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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Bigotry Alive and Well in the Home of the Brave

America is definitely no estranged peddler when it comes to the likes of bigotry, persecution and racism. It has been present since the first Europeans stepped off their boats and onto this promised land. Most of the immigrants to this country, and let us not forget that the vast majority of our population has immigrants somewhere in their family history, were people fleeing persecution of one kind or another if not precisely religious in nature. I am not very sure how this comes to be that because someone themselves is second generation or beyond they feel they have more rights than people just arriving in basically the exact way that their ancestors did before them. Take the Nativist movement mainly in New England in the 1840's to the mid 1850's known as the 'Know Nothing Party'. These bigots not unlike those of today had various and heavy batches of fear and hatred directed against German and Irish Catholic immigrants. These bigots feared that the Pope would be controlling the waves of immigrants through Bishops that were hand selected by the Pope himself. These fears may have been assuaged some over time but did rear their ugly head when the first possibly electable Catholic, John F. Kennedy, was chasing the reigns of the presidency. People at that time were still afraid that the Pope would be in direct control of Kennedy. In 1960 Kennedy had to even address these unwarranted fears and publicly stated, "I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President who also happens to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my Church on public matters — and the Church does not speak for me."

I didn't mean for this to become a defense of Catholicism, because there are some Catholic Church elements that I have to disagree with ie. condom usage, homosexuality, celibacy etc., but just wanted to illustrate a direct line of bigotry that now has shifted onto yet another minority group; Muslims. It's as if the bully of the playground (being the definite and tangible part of a majority group) needed yet again someone or something to rail against because their lives are shitty at home. I guess that may be more understandable during this recession but it still evades my mind why people would bully a minority group as opposed to directing their anger and energy, I don't know, maybe at the people, businesses, Wall Street faux gurus and Republican representatives that brought us into this recession. Let us also not forget that one of the United Sates' most infamous hate groups, the KKK, not only was renowned for the lynching of Blacks but was in addition anti-Catholic as well.

Here's a little more on the bigotry link of our Land of the Free. Let's travel back for a second to the Colony of Virginia in 1642. When in that year they passed a law that banned Catholics from settling in the colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted a similar law a few years later and found some of its resident Puritans murdering Jesuits. Don't forget that it was the Puritans who fled religious persecution on The Mayflower only to get to the new world where some of that group took up the flag of bigotry and persecuted others sometimes in murderous fashion.

Here is the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.

Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Ok, now let's look at this Islamic center that might be built in New York City that everyone is up in arms over. Some people are saying that even though it is within the rights of the Muslims that wish to build the center that they shouldn't because it needlessly will offend too many people. First of all, get over it. That excuse is being used by many other cities and towns across America to try to prevent the construction of Mosques in their townships. Seriously if a religious group can't build a place to peaceably assemble and worship in one place there is really nothing that people wouldn't say to stop the mosques from being built anywhere. In fact they would then have a new precedent. Everyone would point to the halting of construction of the Islamic Center in New York as viable reason to not allow other constructions.

I have been hearing some Republicon pundits as well as large figures in the conservative movement ie. Newt Gingrich that have been changing the slant of their bigotry with the espousing that Islam is not a religion but rather a philosophy and so therefore, I guess in their twisted reality, is ok to perpetrate their slanderous and hateful prejudice against. Calling Islam not a religion is probably akin to calling Christianity a philosophy. I would suggest that maybe we reduce ALL religions to philosophies but alas that won't happen so how can we reduce any of them. Islam is based basically on many of the exact elements that Christianity is. Both built off of a Jewish foundation. Some people are saying that Sharia would take the place of US law and therefore come to control all Muslims. First off there is such a myriad of beliefs and reverence to Sharia Law that it can only be looked at as similar to the immensity of varying viewpoints and the implementation of the beliefs by various Christian denominations. No single any faith or person has everything right. Never.

Why would the construction of the Islamic Center be a victory for Islamic Fundamentalists? Even if the same exact people who brought us the devastation on 9/11 were the same people trying to build the center, I would say let them. There is no greater victory over insane religious or political fervor than by just persevering through their crap as respectful and tolerant members of a free society. How will it seriously look to Muslims around the world as well as to Islamic Fundamentalists if in this, the Land of the Free, we behave like and are as non-tolerant as how some of the Right-Wing conservative pundits claim all Muslims to be. This above and beyond would send the wrong message. Not only to our enemies, real and imagined but also to ourselves and the next generations of humans everywhere. What we need to do is to have more open discussions between faiths and philosophies as well as more adherence to the word of law.


- Josh Hinck -


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Thursday, February 18, 2010

What Are You Looking For



Track 7 from the euphoreador late 2009 release called 'adrift'. When idealizing love this can lead to many problems such as madness and severe misconceptions that don't exist in the real world but only in the idyllic. Also when fantasizing on past experiences one can be led down a round of escalating depression. However when we face the truth about love it may be painful at points but also the most redeeming aspect to existence. (A special thanks to Jovonn Mercier for the use of her great photos!!)




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Friday, January 01, 2010

Too Far to be Remembered

Track 1 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.



Too far to be Remembered

Looking into the past
Is like looking fast
Into the future

I’ve been sifting through truths
Of genealogy and gin
And gynecological irregularities
And preponderance of mystical lands
Lie under the further sands

Even though they slip away
It haunts this day

Well I’m just too far away
To be remembered
My little voice did say
As my visage blurred

Day in day out
A little more
Night into keeping
What you do
Day in day out
How oft do I think
About the real
Came from
And not where
We’re going
What do we do
In this temporal flesh
With each other’s empathy
Filled in anguish
If we hanged her onto
That ethical barrier
I mean if we gave a fuck

It’s better to think now than when you can’t think anymore


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The Mush and the Might

Track 2 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.



The Mush and the Might

The spout of your mouth
Like a river of currency
You say behave
And I say let’s get dirty
I want to breed

Circling our minds
Trouble and temptation
Some say the bold and the beautiful
Are inert elite
I just say go fuck yourself
Cause the people who care
Are better everywhere

Sacrosanct silver and grime
When out of the sorrow’s song
Long flung you brung

You better run before you get killed
But the hole in the ground
Has already been filled
With the mush and the might
Of a sorrowful sight
Of us all pretending to be right

If it taints then it won’t be gold
If it breaks we can no longer hold
Them precious foolery
Along with trivial things

Sounds like every
Embattlement
Sounds like a barrow
Well come bare in mind
And let you see

THE WHORE OF HUMANITY


You better run before you get killed
But the hole in the ground
Has already been filled
With the mush and the might
Of a sorrowful sight
Of us all trying to be right
And we’re wrong


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Rift valley

Track 3 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.



Rift Valley

You come back to me sans subterfuge
As deluge clings to parched desert sands
It’s way too much and too fast
Aghast the rivers flashed flood
And the waters are 33 grasping hands deep
To have and to keep
To hold and to know

To bring down the pomp and glamour
And burn change the three ring show
With the big top all aglow
The Circus Maximus is the poignant kiss
Well what’s become of
Stuttered to no avail and the mast and sail
Inflates as billow we fall upon the pillow of grass
Me and this fallible lass
With up skirt and down dress
With arched curves we confess
We’re omnivoric whores
We’re human stars amongst scores
We’re gluttonous fasters
We’re servants and we’re masters
We’re healed sores gaping fresh anew
Like whatever plasters the sobered glue
Of red white deepest black and blue
Oh fuck the onslaught slew the spirit flew
Just to test its wings and rally
Despite hoops and flaming rings
The human heart it sings


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God Damned You Charred Earth

Track 4 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.



God Damned You Charred Earth

I did not even know that we may die
Collecting caveats hence bodies
That ply their way to the sky
Rhyme and reason is a failing season
Dreary a dark lost frost
I crossed Lethe with Styx a fire to burn
And then I struck a match
God damned you charred Earth
It burned for what it’s worth
For icing on the cake I shake him down
And his face is planted firm
Beneath the matted muck this stupid fuck
Thinks 100 grand is gonna stop me
From silencing him and his sperm

The one grandest of truths
I just found out
Is each and every one of us does die
Reaching for money
A blank check blank stare
What the fuck do we care

I did not even know that we may die
Neglecting caveats in your inner thigh
The bodies that ply
Reaching for money
Blank check blank stair
What the fuck do we care


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Retreat Down the Long Haul

Track 5 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.



Retreat Down the Long Haul

Been being sown up
Under the stitches
Been scratching off all my riches
Been digging ditches deeper, further
With the loins of my britches
And yet I still haven’t found
A taste for above ground
To be sliding within great sleep’s fold
Of nation-hood yourself
Get prepared for unnerving sites
And frights of passage
The tales the rails
The horse’s hooves
Are the best of glues
To tie and bind the mind
Until we guess its moves
Let’s start being fucking kind


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Topography

Track 6 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.



Topography

So it brings account with the growing shade
What does it mean what hath god rotten made
We opened the window and even beckoned indeed
That the succubus was Lorealei
Yeah, that’s our speed

Back to what we brought to the killing fields
Crescent swords and crosses on shields
We slaughtered and foddered and blundered
Then laundered in blood
We questioned the other’s purity
Then we rolled around in mud

Cause I want to get me more
Do what, do you want to get now
You want to get more Gitmo
You want to have
But none of us wants to give anymore


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What Are You Looking For

Track 7 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.




What Are You Looking For

What are you looking for
There is not much I would not do
Like a cornered animal wild
That never breaks through
The tethering cords piled soft and high
Velvet on the threshing bedroom floorboards
Your tongue is dual swords
Slicing

This isn’t right

This isn’t wrong
This isn’t anything
That makes everyone’s life longer
Tell in passion
Even day’s illusion foolery
Stand down
We don’t
You don’t look
We don’t leap
Ahh

What are you looking for
There is not much I would not do
Like a cornered animal wild
That never breaks through
The tethering cords piled soft and high
Velvet on the threshing bedroom floorboards
Your tongue is dual swords
Slicing and cutting
Our vows of exchange



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Forage

Track 8 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.





Forage

Nights in black satin
Sheets of rain in velvet pleats
Pain the flesh carnival
With choice repeats
The crop cracks the time
And bites the sex
With dank dark beats

Lick suck
Turn your other cheek and let me fuck
Taste spaced
Together we both go down on her luck
Then slow we have ours to go on and on

Naked flesh naked flame
It reeks of danger
When everyone knows
Each other’s name
Masked naked in mesh
From Istanbul to Marrakech
The damsel and the dame

Deeper deeper down

Flinch twist
Your pussy’s lips
Are the only ones she’s kissed
Give an inch resist
Our lives are vapid
As the salient mist

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Carnal Gethsemene

Track 9 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.





Carnal Gethsemene

If since before we were born we fought against millions
Just for a chance to reach the wall
On a spearheaded long shot civilians

Ovulating lady
May I ask you to dance

Wounded I came
Lay beside me learn your name

Wounded I came

How don’t we take it to go
Face down down roll on missy
Hey June Bug tow the line
To Jupiter lead the way
Pay first speak second
Down on your knees third
(Thirties and dirty these)
All you’ve heard
Women are prayer for him over there
(Whim and a prayer for hymn over there)
Carnal Gethsemene
With her and me
Since before we’re born we fought against millions
Just for a chance to reach the wall
On a spearheaded long shot civilians ovulating
And now and now
We live amongst billions
Underneath an ignorance pall
That behavior is controlled by reptilian’s brain


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Denomination

Track 10 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrit.



Denomination

You better start running in the lengths of time
When we are feeling light
With Mercuriac wings
Feet travel through things
And bodies collapse around
On the chanson* lane Champ-Elysees
We go to hell after triumphing this way
And when bodies die next
That’s got me thinking
Yeah well that’s what’s got me thinking
And then the children here in this world
What will they be

I’m sure the children of the next generation
They don’t what our piles of shit
Like we didn’t want them
Thrust that were upon our ass
When we came to top with little of class
We never knew what instore would befell
Hard to tell
But I’m sure they don’t want any of it
This huge pile of bullshit
We’re aching to give to them

All things come to an end

What they want is to be free
Given a life to be a little human

You’re running now
Get your feet placed firmly on the pavement
Move into the next of square
Cause hell water is a fantasy from there
It’s desert oasis and tragedy

Little beautiful child you ain’t much alive
But when you get old you’ll always regret
That everyone around you sold you such shit
And noone cared enough to give you
The real scoop the real plan
That hardship and high ideals
Are what is human’s hand
Dealt felt black in velvet velour
The overrated heart is to assume that it is pure
It grows wider upon this wrong
And there is love somewhere far away
Don’t let your life go before
You’ve given a chance some more
Hold me tender feel then

Make a stance for romance
Then take the floor
In a dance of parlance
They’ll all adore
St. George’s lance says your rants
Pierce to the core
Of Rosencrantz slide askance
And search for more
Friendship

*the French word for song

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Man Down For Love

Track 11 from the late December 2009 euphoreador release entitled adrift.



Man Down For Love

I was a simpleton caught in a maelstrom
Tossed pell-mell like a rag doll
From the precipice of hell

I was a blithering fool
Throwing my flailing arms about
Trying to grasp why the whirling detritus
We buy and sell

Adrift in dust

Adrift in dust and sluice
The tether was cut loose
There is no static footing to call home
Oh well, oh well

Oh ancient oracle of Delphi
Where am I in relation to you

I was a naysayer
And privy to inconventionality
So wonder wonder wonder is my fun
Thunder is a clay enclave
Prometheus gave us fire
And I used it to
Perpetuate your desire in you

I was a simpleton caught in
An open box
Tossed pell-mell
I was a class defined
Like a rag doll
Into the things we
Precipice of hell
Encapsulate and call unkind
Throwing my flailing arms about
We are humanity
Whirling detritus
We are humanity
We buy and sell
We are humanity
We are humanity
Adrift in dust








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