Tag: music
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Music: Daytrippin’ in the Kali Yuga (2025)
Life is wondrous, even–especially– when we aren’t in control of and accept what arises.
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Music: Primal Tribal time (2025)
Here’s my first use of an instrument I’m only beginning to learn: the violin. The lyrics reflect an apprehension about growing uncertainty and diminishing safeguards going forward. The images of the beautiful “primitive” people of Papua New Guinea, responsibly sourced from Wikimedia Commons, are meant to symbolize basic aggressive energies that all humans share.
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Memoir: A summer job (1981)
So much great culture was happening for me in 1981. My high points: But my memoir prompt–to describe a summer job in 500-ish words–limits me. So as I was enjoying the culture above referenced, here’s my chapter: I was 20 years old the summer of 1981, living rent-free with dad in his two-bedroom apartment off…
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Memoir: Every song that mattered to you can tell a story (1971)
“Yes,” I could say, “my family life might be shameful, but I know who bats third for the Cubs (Joe Pepitone) and who guested on the Flip Wilson Show last week (Bill Cosby, Gina Lollabrigita, and John Sebastian).”
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Music: Back from Alaska
Upon returning from the land of the midnight sun, I stewarded this out of the Beach Avenue Garage.
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Music: Summer Drive-in
Here’s a rough collaboration that evokes horror movie viewing in one’s car with the windows down.
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Memoir: A thought experiment concerning Dad (1973-80)
How would my father be doing if he were alive and well today, if he hadn’t died at 59 of bowel cancer? I think Dad might have adapted pretty well to the current culture. Several times, I saw him accommodate powerful changes in mores that happened around him in the 1970s. A professional adaptation occurred…
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Music: Window seat behind (2025)
Here’s a song that came to me on a cold day last week in Chicago, when it was snowing in New Orleans. Lyrics: Cold and ugly winter day, grey skies and nasty wind The temperature is sub-zero and it’s snowing in New Orleans. The only blue my eyes can see is the flapping tarpaulin It…
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