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  • Top 40 Over 40.2: Let England Shake

    When I quit making records in 2001, I had a lot of different thoughts bolting around my brain.  One of them was that since musicians almost always do their best work in their 20’s, I was heading for a period of diminishing creative returns, even if that didn’t mean diminishing rewards in terms of money […]

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    March 8, 2012
    Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40
    Let England Shake, P.J. Harvey
  • Top 40 Over 40.1: She walked in through the out door

    Emmylou Harris : Coat Of Many Colours (1977) I’ve just finished listening to Wrecking Ball by Emmylou Harris. It’s a phenomenal record. Why have I never heard anyone talk about it? Below the above picture you’ll find a link to an early clip of her covering another underrated songwriter, Dolly Parton. Could it be that […]

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    March 7, 2012
    Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40
    Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Graham Parsons, Naomi Klein, Wrecking Ball
  • Dear IRS,

    Please consider changing the name of the 1040 tax return form to WD40.  I think the company would surely be willing to pay the government to name the form after their product, much as firms like Citibank currently pay for the naming rights for sports stadiums.  I mean, what’s more visible, the standard annual tax […]

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    February 23, 2012
    Politics, Wisecracks
  • Debt.2

    “We’re used to assuming that capitalism and markets are the same thing, but as the great French historian Fernand Braudel (at left in this post) pointed out, in many ways they could equally be conceived as opposites.  While markets are ways of exchanging goods through the medium of money…capitalism is first and foremost the art […]

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    February 22, 2012
    Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Debt, Economics, History, Politics, Series of posts
  • Debt.1

    Last week I finished a book I really liked called Debt by David Graeber, (Melville Press.)  The author is an anthropologist and an activist who has been involved with the “anti-globalization” movement in general, and the Industrial Workers of the World and Occupy Wall Street in particular.  He used to teach at Yale but moved […]

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    February 19, 2012
    Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Debt, Economics, History, Politics, Series of posts
  • Jumping to Conclusions

    I’ve been listening to some records by Kurt Vile this week.  (Smoke Ring For My Halo, Childish Prodigy, Constant Hitmaker, God Is Saying This to You…)  I first heard his name from an ad on NPR music.  I assumed at the time that it was a play on words referring to the composer Kurt Weil.  […]

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    February 18, 2012
    Buddhism, Music, Record Reviews, The Dharma
  • Halftime

    Madonna is scheduled to perform shortly after the conclusion of the second quarter of today’s Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.  I saw Truth or Dare when I was in 8th grade and remember all the controversy surrounding her persona when she first came out, most of which had […]

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    February 5, 2012
    Music, Politics, Sports
  • The Man Who Taught Me To Hold a Holga

    This is the cover of my first album, Pure Night. The image is an etching I did on a metal plate in high school.  I wanted to post a link to the website of the printmaking and photography teacher I studied with back then, who taught me how to do stuff like this. http://www.waltercrump.com/ He […]

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    January 25, 2012
    Film
  • Stuck Inside Samsara With the Karmic Blues Again

    I’ve managed to fulfill one of my new year’s resolutions – to start this blog and website.  But I don’t put a lot of stock in the whole new year’s ritual.  If I did, I might be posting “Getting Better” by the Beatles or “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” by Fleetwood Mac, instead of the […]

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    January 21, 2012
    Buddhism, Music, Record Reviews
  • MLK Day: What I Didn’t Learn About Jim Crow in School

    Today on the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., I would like to recommend two books that helped me view his work in a larger context.  The first is Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon, and the second is The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.  The former taught me a lot about the […]

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    January 16, 2012
    Book Reviews, History, Politics
    caste system, jim crow laws, michelle alexander, new slavery
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