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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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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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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. HOME He…
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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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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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I fought the law, and I won
A former babysitter of mine just posted this as his profile picture on Facebook. I’m waiting for a follow up picture of the seagull pooping on the sign a minute later.
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Who Really Wins on Super Bowl Sunday?
“America has succeeded in forcing other nations to pay for its wars on a systematic basis, something never before accomplished by any nation in history .” – Michael Hudson I’d like to recommend two books I just finished reading, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson and Super Imperialism: The Origins…
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Subliminal Messages
Every once in a while I try and find something weird having to do with my past on the internet as a lark. This is a YouTube video some young women in Prague made of a shopping trip to Ikea, using Free to Go by the Folk Implosion as a soundtrack. Their conclusion at the…
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Pick a Bela Bartok
This week I am listening to a few records by Béla Bartók, (1881-1945,) a composer from Hungary I got interested in after hearing that he influenced my two favorite musicians, Ornette Coleman and John Fahey. (Check out Ornette’s violin playing on the Town Hall Concert, for example.) I don’t usually listen to much classical music,…
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He’s got 48 pages
I recently finished reading Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which features the longest run-on sentence I’ve ever read. It takes up the entire final chapter of the novel. It is 48 pages long. In Lorrie Moore’s novel A Gate at the Stairs, a student at the University of Wisconsin is smitten by…
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