K.J.L.K.

 

Untimely Reflections is the blog of Keegan J. L. Kjeldsen. I'm a writer and musician from Austin, Texas. I spent most of the 2010's touring America, and eventually Europe, with my doom metal band, Destroyer of Light. I plan to publish an account of many of those experiences someday, though I have not done so yet. Coronavirus more or less definitively ended the musical era of the 2010's, but as of 2021, we've begun playing sporadically once again. We musicians remain hopeful that our way of life will return some day, but we know things won't quite be the same. Nevertheless, I continue to work as a musician to this day and hope begin touring again soon.

During the 2010's, I wrote extensively about my own experiences, about philosophy, and even some assorted essays and short stories. After everything shut down at the beginning of 2020, I began writing even more essays, and wrote for Medium for a year or so while. I've written a great deal on the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and have recently started the Nietzsche podcast as of June, 2021.

This site will function less as a blog, and more as an archive of the longform essays I've written over the years. There is some material that is from so long ago that it may not fully accurately represent my views any longer - mainly the very early essays from 2014/2015. But I felt they were at least interesting enough to preserve for posterity.

Book(s):

Unconscious Correspondences

My self-published book. I started writing it in 2015, and spent about five years on it when all was said and done. For all that - I'm not sure it represents my thought all that well any longer. That being said, I'm proud of it and feel the questions raised within are at least interesting enough to be valuable for the public at large. The subject matter is dualism in human thought, and the exploration of different ways in which mankind had coped with and tried to understand the feeling of dividedness: between body and mind, between flesh and spirit, between yin and yang, and between Dionysus and Apollo.

Music: 

Destroyer of Light