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Entries in Music (35)

11:35PM

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

You know I have a love for everyone I know

And you’ve seen I have this drive

to live; I won’t let go.

Could you see its opposition

comes rising up sometimes?

I see a darkness….

5:04PM

The Goddess and The Friend

When the goddess stood to go, she smoothed her short dress with a smile, and left, and the other girl (is she always “the other girl”?) looked up with so much sadness I thought I would start chewing my plastic cup.  I wanted to batter the world down.

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5:36AM

Dreaming About Mom

Dreaming about my mother.

I’m feeling something of grief alot these days, it seems: some people would say I’m incredibly unlucky, but not me.  I’m just sorry I haven’t done better with what I’ve had.

But I think the dead are the most compassionate people we know.

Nobody else knows what being broken means like they do.

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9:48PM

Poor Old Tom - Peter Case

After this encounter, just thinking of this song…

 

 

12:12AM

Playing Sober and Un-Coupled: A Few Thoughts On Changing

We played a bar tucked away in an old neighborhood in the suburbs tonight.  It was pretty enthusiastic for so small and out-of-the-way a place, with boiled crawfish in the back giving the place a homey feel and people appreciative of our music dancing.

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7:34AM

Beatles Doing "Ticket" and "Revolution"

Just a mood from the era of the imperfect lip-sync. 

Beatles doing “Revolution” on Dick Cavett’s show.

9:12AM

Welch-Hit

A friend has been Welching on me, and sent this.

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (I swear, I wish I could play acoustic guitar as well as that guy).  But the lyrics are the thing: “Time’s a revelator.”

6:33PM

Un Petite Death Cab

Soundstage rocks.

4:15PM

Hugh Laurie: The Sophisticated Song

Yeah, okay, so this is slightly autobiographical.  What’s yer point? 

(Is this House Music?)

 

And a freebie from Flight of the Conchords.  No comment on the autobiographical content.

4:08PM

Music Therapy: Oliver Sacks and Healing the Mind

This video has rightly gone viral on YouTube.  It says what musicians generally already know: neurologically, music is sanity.