Hello, 2023

I think we’ve made it clear by now that New Year’s Resolutions are not really our thing here in Nocturnal Mind. In fact, personally, I’ve always kind of disliked the concept. For starters, it often puts a lot of pressure on people to suddenly turn their lives around and become something completely different from who…

Contrast

One of my writing professors once told the class to “write weirdly about the plain things, and plainly about the weird things.” And within Nocturnal Mind we have frequently commented on the strange beauty of contrast—whether from characters, ideas, settings, or situations. Beautiful songs about death; frightening-looking people having the gentlest souls… These are things…