Eddie Canter

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoZFyfzlJy32uQ4WduZuvPA

Not Telling

"Since infinite stars are shining/How differently am I devoted to each star!" - Walther Hasenclever, "The Son"

Besides MLP, my life is devoted to the arts in all their myriad forms: theatre, music, literature, dance, visual art, film, television, video games, and so on and so on into eternity. I find it hard to draw particular distinctions about what I like and what I don't like, but I can probably say that theatre is the field to which I have academically consecrated myself and I have a particular devotion to the work of the Romantics, the Symbolists, and the German Expressionists, as well as the poets of the Japanese Noh theatre.<br /><br />I adore the ragtime, jazz, and Tin Pan Alley tunes of the period from about the 1900s to the 1930s. Some of my favorite musicians of that period are probably Eddie Cantor (of course!), Red McKenzie, Frank Teschemacher, Cliff Edwards, Freddie Keppard, King Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Ferdinand Morton, Tom Stacks, and Harry Reser. I should probably stop there!<br /><br />I am also something of an occultist, in the tradition inaugurated by &quot;Chaos Magic.&quot; I believe that what is known as &quot;magic&quot; is not &quot;spells&quot; or impossible effects but is in fact a deliberate use of the technology of the imagination to transform our perception of and interaction with the world; I reject as a falsehood the strict separation of the categories of &quot;reality&quot; and &quot;fantasy&quot; and seek to infuse both with each other. Breaking down the boundaries between the material world and the world of MLP has, in fact, been one of the constant subjects of my magical research...<br /><br />I also enjoy the occasional game of chess, though I'm very terrible at it. This is mostly due to my relatively poor spatial reasoning, but also because my play is stuck in the 19th century; I simply can't let go of the beauty of the kind of chess Paul Morphy and Adolph Anderssen played.

Commissions