WRITING SAMPLES
SID VICIOUS:
A VICTIM OF HIS NAME
A written & aural exploration of the Sex Pistol’s iconic bassist - Sid Vicious.
“An uncouth vandal… a circus act with a demented gaze… a psychotic punk puppet… an easily constructed persona… a tragic Romeo junkie… ‘Sid Vicious’ might as well be inducted into Merriam-Webster’s databases with the amount of definitions this name denotes. However, regardless of the wide assortment of interpretations, one could even say modern-day ‘Shakespearean insults’, all of these descriptions, whether they be true or false, are all rooted in a singular truth—his truth—John Ritchie’s truth.
John who?
John. John Simon Ritchie, if that even was his original name, was the neglected soul that happened to share the same carnal walls as Sid Vicious.”
Self-ownership
& madness
The Joker, Jim Morrison and Big Pharma - A musical investigation of madness and the imprisonment of the “self”
“The loudspeakers scream 1967. John Densmore’s sticky drumsticks thrust the eardrums of thousands of young adults awaiting to light their fires. A chalk white spotlight illuminates the stage, revealing what seems to be the mortal reincarnation of Dionysus in mid-performance. His obscurely lyrical voice soon decrypts his identity. It is none other than “Mr. Mojo Risin”, or Jim Morrison, as his mother calls him. Incestual lyrics swim through the sea of perspiring people as Morrison invites his fans to dive into the depths of their unconscious and bring to the sunlit surface all of their repressed delirious desires. Soon enough, the waves of Morrison’s kaleidoscopic mind have managed to travel beyond this sea of people into oceans of individuals across the country. “