Jordan O'Connor - Index

February 12th, 2007
At some point the real cowboys, the ones who aren’t oil men driving $85 000 pristine looking trucks with GPS units, with recreational ranches, the ones who care about the environment because they actually work it - because they are real ranchers! - are going to flip-out, on all those poser ranchers. If you ask me, this is definitely a movie Clint Eastwood should direct – he can call it “The Return of the Real Men… and Women."
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August 28th, 2006
Back in January 2002 Justin (Haynes) Nick (Fraser) and myself (Jordan O’Connor) spent 4 nights recording at a studio space in Toronto Canada – Ratspace. We recorded around 12 hours of music and as I listen to it now, what strikes me as interesting is just how much music this trio has made, and how deep it runs within me.
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July 5th, 2006
The other day I was listening to music and thinking about life. As I listened I drifted into a timeless calm, a wondrous peaceful place where things felt whole, then suddenly, as if unexpectedly rocked in a small boat, my mind saw the reality it left behind and yelled – “What the hell happened!” Read Entry here >>>

May 22nd, 2006
There has been a lot of talk about Kyoto and the gun registry and the failings of both. The other night Rex Murphy on the CBC pointed out this parallel. It is true, both Kyoto and the gun registry have become “boondoggles” and as such political hot spots but why are we so ready to give up on these two things? Didn’t we think these things were important? What happened? I decided to write to “Your Turn” on the CBC. Read Entry here >>>

February 10th , 2006
I really don't know what to say about the election. I liked what one comedian said—at least now we have a minority in power. But I guess we got what we wanted—which was to punish the Fiberal-Liberals. Some people in the West are happy—since they felt excluded. Also the rural areas feel that they have a place at the table because places like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver (the economic engines of the country) have taken all of the attention away from…these small places. Read Entry here >>>

December 20th, 2005
The reason why globalization will never work is simple: money. The belief that an open market will naturally do the moral thing is unfounded. In fact, there is little to suggest that an open market will even do the best economic thing. It’s not that the idea of globalization cannot work—it can…as an idea. However, as a reality there is simply no way. There is no illustration in Western history of the economy protecting society; in fact, Western commerce has historically been dependent upon slavery and the seizure of land.
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November 20th, 2005
How do you ague in favor of one thing while doing the other? How do you rail against a government that supports a neoconservative agenda while utilizing its benefits? How do you believe in God and murder in the name of God? Are we no more than the sum of our ironies? Read Entry here >>>

October 20th, 2005
Something strange happened when I turned 30, something I couldn’t talk about at the time. I realized, unequivocally, that I was a failure. All that I thought I would be wasn’t true. I had comforted myself with the understanding that one day I would be something, achieve something, make right by and mend something; be in some way significant.  But when I turned 30 the fallacy was revealed; just another chump, just a boring, brain dead adult.
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