Alex Ebert: Death and The Cool

A Parallax Media Academy Presentation: Hosted by Owen Cox and Andrew Sweeny

Alex Ebert is an erstwhile multiplatinum songwriter and Golden Globe-winning film composer now taking up philosophy in New Orleans. He is currently finishing his first book, Dead Cool, an analysis of sociodynamics and status anxiety in the age of Cool.

We talked with him about death, the creative process, coolness and the need to constantly step into the gap.