Tag: Eric Lott
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The Residents and the Arctic
I rarely hear an entire record played on the radio. A few months ago, I heard the album Eskimo by the Residents played on WXDU’s stellar Sunday afternoon show, Polyphonic Perversity. I soon purchased it and have really enjoyed hanging out with it since. I know very little about the Residents, so I won’t say…
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Reckoning with early REM
Recently I’ve been working on two projects at the same time, Gnawing on the Bone and Soy Aqui. I usually don’t do this but have found that there is an upside to it that reminds me of the story behind the REM song Life and How to Live It. The song is about a resident…
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R.I.P., MCA.1
I’d like to express my respect for the late MCA’s work by sharing some thoughts his passing brought to mind about an aspect of his life that many of referred to but few focus on at length, which is his interest in and practice of Buddhist teachings. I didn’t learn about Buddhism from MCA, and…