Curly Lox releases new book ‘Planet Hurt’
Patrick Gaynor, aka ‘Curly Lox’, half of the duo Twin of Twins, has channelled the pain of losing his son into a self-help book titled Planet Hurt Volume 1: The idea And The Process.
The book is available both online and in hard copy. The audiobook will soon be available. “The early response from the fans online has been sensational.
The book was inspired by the untimely death of my son Zion. It was this event that I believed that woke me up from hallucination,” Gaynor said. Zion Emmanuel passed away in 2007.
“I have been on it [the book] since Zion died and I wrote my first book The Road to Zion, which is my memoir, and there was a lot left over, so I decided to pursue Planet Hurt, which I was writing on and off. But it was between 2018 to 2020, the year of the pandemic, which gave me the time to really settle and finish it,” he said.
Gaynor claims the book will offer insights in how to live more holistically.
“The main theme of the book is how average humans are deceived by labels that distort their perception of reality. It is about how to avoid the many conflicts we are trapped in by using our emotions and impulses properly,” he added.
Gaynor said the book is not cluttered with the usual playedout cliches of self- actualisation based on material success that dominate self-help books.
“It is the ultimate self- help book,” said Gaynor, who is known for his comedic voices in the popular Stir It Up dancehall mixtape series.
Gaynor also produces a popular podcast on YouTube called
#inthemeantime; and as Curly Lox, he continues to be the mastermind and creative genius behind Twin of Twins.
“New music is coming, and I’m trying for a release of the latest instalment of #Stiritup Volume 12 in March,” he said.