Heart of Darkness

I’ve been listening to Sparklehorse and reading Tim O’Brien and Joseph Conrad, and let me tell you, it’s crushing. They’re all about the human capacity for evil, about the barely-contained darkness coiled up in your gut waiting to escape, the capacity of love to turn into anger and resentment and fear and violence. I spent a lot of time last night lying in bed staring at the ceiling and looking into the darkness in myself and just sinking.