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Support GLBTQ Staff & Students in DPS
I’ll be participating in a roundtable discussion on supporting GLBTQ staff and students in Durham Public Schools at Bull McCabe’s at 427 West Main Street in downtown Durham next Tuesday, February 2nd, from 6 – 7:30 pm. The event is sponsored by the Education Team of the Durham People’s Alliance, whose board I’ve just started…
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Bacon Sheds Light on Pork
One of the ironies of teaching students to read on their own initiative outside of school is that the heavy work load of teaching can make it hard for teachers to do just that themselves. This is something I try and resist as much as possible, and it gets easier when I have some time…
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New Cassette Released Today!
If you’re into hypnosis, you might like a minimal instrumental piece I just released on cassette and digital download from Unread Records this very day. It’s a 45 minute long instrumental version of a song from my forthcoming record called We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize. The cover of the cassette features degraded xeroxed pictures…
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Top 40 Over 40.20: L. Subramaniam live
Sometimes you just gotta trust a friend. Every year Duke Performances has a concert series you can buy into at a package discount. I pick up seats for the shows I wanna see before it all starts, and watch the dates roll forward and wash over me as the year unfolds. At the suggestion of my…
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Pretty Bubbles Turning Into Grime
Michael Hudson has a new book out so I thought it was high time I posted some thoughts I’ve been meaning to write up about his last one, The Bubble and Beyond. I’ve posted before about Hudson’s 1973 classic Superimperialism, whose analysis of the economic strategy of American Empire was followed by a terrific 1977…
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I’ve Been Working On the Website
I’ve recently begun serving as Treasurer for the Durham Association of Educators, which will introduce the pronounced influence of book keeping financial terminology into future lyrics. You can check us out online at daenc.com, @DurhamEducators, and somewhere on instagram….durhameducators methinks.
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NYC Tix
Tickets are now on sale online for our 2 NYC shows this fall. 10/24 at Union Hall with Franklin Bruno & The Human Hearts and Brice Randall Bickford: click here. 10/25 at Cake Shop with Brice Randall Bickford click here. Set list will differ between the 2, so come to both if you’re nearby!
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Band that Rocked the Cradle
You can see video of 7 songs from the debut set of the live line up of John Davis & The Cicadas here. This show took place on August 3rd 2015 at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC. Our next show at the moment is booked for October 24th at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NYC. I…
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Live on Radio Tomorrow Night @ 8
Brice Randall Bickford and I will be having a joint appearance on WXYC 89.3 FM in Chapel Hill tomorrow night, (August 2nd) from 8 – 9 pm. We’ll both play 20 minute live solo sets and chat with the DJ for 20 more in advance of our double bill at Cat’s Cradle on Monday 8/3.…
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The Core is Getting Soft.16: Quick Shelving
I’ve been spending more time than I really wanted to figuring out how to translate incidental sounds from loops and samples on my forthcoming record to a live setting this week. I haven’t played live in more years than I can shake a stick at, and the last time I did this with Folk Implosion…
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