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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
I’m a big fan of “Not What I Expected.” I like it when people fold, spindle, and mutilate musical things in an interesting way, to render them more interesting to contemporary ears. Jazz players often get ahold of seemingly mundane pop tunes and take them up a notch.
I’m going to post an excerpt of an essay I wrote 14 years ago or so. It was about how my children ended up performing music as a duo. My older son was around sixteen at the time. The younger one was only nine. As it turns out,
So, I bought this thing. I’m not sure why. I haven’t played one for twenty years, and truth be told, I can’t even remember which end you’re supposed to blow in. So what do I want with a guitarra? Well, it’s like this: I don’t miss my old
I’ve been thinking about indentured servitude. Never fear. Not as a current career choice, but as a concept. Here’s a pretty chaste description of indentured servitude from a chatbot: Indentured servitude is a form of labor where a person signs a contract to work for another for a
If you don’t recognize the name, Brian Eno was one of the original members of Roxy Music. They were pioneers in what I call Art School Rock. Eno drifted away from Roxy Music after a couple of records, and set up shop as a deep thinker about shallow
We’re renting a house in Mérida, Mexico. The clothes dryer was busted. I pretty much knew what was wrong with it, and probably could have fixed it, but I’m not allowed to fix anything. I’m supposed to call the property manager and tell her what’s wrong, and she
Hear me out: The sixties never happened. No, really. The idea that generational shifts happen in neat, tectonic fashion, bang-on the first day of each
She’s gone past gray to the shores of Thanatos. And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. The
Winter came like a postcard a long time ago. The snow drifted down in slow motion, the big, fat flakes parachuting in and accumulating gently
