Tag: Eric Lott

• 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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  October 27, 2014

  Book excerpts, Book Reviews, History, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  american empire, Arctic Circle, Book Reviews, Coca-Cola, Cora Dubois, Dust to Digital, Ecuador, Edward Said, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Eric Lott, Eskimo, Folkways, Harvard University, History, Immanuel Kant, Imperial Eyes, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Inuit, Jadaliyaa, Jay-Z, LA, Left media, Lowland Tribes of Ecuador, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Music, Naomi Klein, Native Instruments, Omar Souleyman, Palestinian Walks, Paul Gilroy, Peabody Museum, Race, Record Reviews, Residents, Sarah Palin, Siam Mapped, Sublime Frequencies, Timbalaand, Upcoming Projects

• 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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  February 16, 2014

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  Byron Coley, Douglas Blackmon, E.H. Harriman, Elizabeth Sturger Llerena, Eric Lott, Gnawing on the Bone, Life and How to Live It, Love and Theft, Michael Stipe, Neil Young, Race, Reconstruction, REM, Slavery By Another Name, Southern Man, Southern Pacific, Soy Aqui, the South, The Wild Bunch, Traces of the Trade, Upcoming Projects

• 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 […]

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  August 11, 2012

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Series of posts

  Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, Buddhism, Eric Lott, Feminism, Folk Implosion, Food Justice, Mass Incarceration, MCA, Race, The Dharma