Peter John (aka SPEARFISHER) is a classically trained pianist and composer with a Master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a DMA in Piano and Composition from the University of Minnesota. He is passionate about shaping the future of music through both classical and contemporary forms.
A full-time composer, electronic musician and pianist based in Los Angeles, he writes and produces music for film and TV, as well as for chamber groups, theater and more.
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After Solomon Spacer and crew made an emergency landing, they didn't realize that their need to eat and drink, their hunger itself, would be incomprehensible... and their very lives would be at stake in a Kafkaesque trial. Hear the space ballad The Trial and or read the short story First Contact Barbecue to learn more.
In November of 2003, my partner and I committed nonviolent civil disobedience to close the notorious School of the Americas along with ninety-six others: nuns, priests, doctors, and lawyers. We did this because ten of the fourteen dictators who seized power in Latin America from 1958 to the present graduated from this school: it’s been used by the CIA to undermine democratically elected governments in the name of US business interests. Because of our misdemeanor action of cutting the lock on a small pedestrian gate, we served six months in federal prison—me in Terre Haute, IN.
Below are letters, poems, and communiqués from my six months in Terre Haute Federal Prison.
Thinspace is free for any human who runs a book club, teaches, or works for an organization making less than ten million dollars annually — share it freely, but don’t charge for it or alter it.
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