Category: music
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To the wind’s twelve quarters/I take my endless way
In the past few years, someone I loved, someone millions of people loved, died in January. Sadly, this January is no exception. Ursula K. Le Guin died on Sunday. Unlike the other gods who have left us to muddle through life as best we can here on Earth Prime, I…
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There will never be another Beatles, except for the one time there was
Everyone is always looking for the next Beatles. From The Monkees to The Arctic Monkees, we salivate over any upstart new band that threatens to upset the world as we know it. They never do. We ain’t gonna see anything like The Beatles and Beatlemania again. There will never be…
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Life in the 90s
We just visited my parents in the little town in Massachusetts where I grew up and learned not to trust the Red Sox. You have to make some adjustments in Massachusetts. A regular coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts is coffee, milk, and two sugahs. A milkshake doesn’t have ice cream, but…
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Summer is gone, get over it
The four major musical genres I find at yard sales and estate sales are Celtic, Christmas, classical, and country. The fifth is probably whale sounds. Though I often find unexpected gold in these situations, to most of the CDs I dig up I would apply the term “not good.” However,…
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No, summer! Don’t go!
You’re an artist. It’s noon and you’ve been awake for at least 15 minutes. You’ve gargled your first gallon of coffee. It’s time to get your game on. How do you welcome your Muse? Yoga? Affirmations? Mixed martial arts? Michelangelo opened himself to inspiration with his paint-by-numbers kit. John Steinbeck…
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