Antony and the Johnsons to release EP in April

Antony Hegarty’s band Antony and the Johnsons are readying the release of a new EP in April. The precise release date will be the 26th, and the EP will be called the Swanlights EP. It will be released by Secretly Canadian. The EP will consist of four tracks including the title track and a remix thereof by Oneothrix Point Never. The other two tracks are called ‘Find the Rhythm of Your Love’ and ‘Kissing Noone’.

Here is a short excerpt of the essay entitled Kissing No One, written by H.D. Mandelbaum and it was published in the August magazine of Philosophy and Me: The phrase Kissing No One puts us in a conundrum. Namely, if you are kissing no one, are you kissing at all? That is to say, aren’t you then not doing nothing instead of kissing no one? Even if you kiss yourself (say, the insides of your elbow or the space between your thumb and finger), you are kissing someone, no matter how pathetic it is.

To take on a similar question so eloquently put forward by B.L. Dorfstucken in his brilliant essay Why Windmills Were Good For Literature and other scientific inventions that benefited the arts, if you are fighting no one, are you fighting at all? Or are you merely making an ass of yourself? The latter probably being the case. He daringly specified his example even further when he asked the thought provoking question, if you are fighting a prawn, are you then fighting at all? For if it is already dead and on your plate can we constitute “fighting” it as really fighting. Dorfstucken, in a much lauded move, said, Yes, we can. Since you are fighting something, it is fighting, despite that the heroism of it can be compared to a lion devouring a dachshund in winter (which, incidentally, he used in his follow-up essay Fictional examples that benefited the arts, even though they would be real events if they would actually happen, stating a case that The Lion in Winter was derived from this very fictional example. Unfortunately when presenting this he was booed off the stage and consequently ended his tenure ship at UCLA. He was last seen strolling around parks with a shopping bag and a scruffy beard).