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Category Archives: Conversations
Screwtape Revisited
From: B.B. Screwtape [mailto: screwtape@aol.com] To: D.A. Wormwood [mailto: satansman@earthlink.net] Date: June 26, 2001 Re: Current Assignments and Suggested Course of Action My dear child: I have been watching your progress over the past few decades, and I am happy … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001 Harper-Collins contest, CS Lewis, devil, modernity, satire, Screwtape Letters
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On Reading Benjamin Franklin
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, I find that on the whole my life has been “felicitous” enough to suggest that I would, if given the opportunity, live it again exactly as it has been to again reach its current point – … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Julian Jaynes, memoirs, My Life Around Art, subjectivity
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Preamble to a Dream
The past is but a dream, a dream: a palimpsest where writ, the scene fades in and out of nothing, fast; seems permanent, but cannot last beyond the span of just one breath. Each life begins and ends in death, … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, dystopian fiction, memoirs, My Life Around Art, utopia
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I Miss Lester Bangs
Hell, I even miss Greil Marcus and Robert Christgau; and that’s saying something. Whatever happened to credible music criticism? How is it that so many bands that sound so damned similar (and equally monotonous, repetitive, derivative and absolutely non-unique or … Continue reading
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Tagged journalism, Lester Bangs, music criticism, professionalism, reviews
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A Flattery More Sincere
What is the point of a tribute band? When I was young, a musician being inspired by a band led to one thing: wanting to form a band of your own, to do what your idols did. For example, I … Continue reading
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Tagged impersonation, musical idols, musical inspiration, musicianship, tribute artists
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Somnambulism in the Rain
Conducting one’s life outside the immediacy of meatspace is ALMOST as exhausting as if one had to actually physically travel to conduct conversations with one’s geographically far-flung “friends” in the flesh. I’m so tired of the forced interaction and the … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, conversations, real life, virtual reality
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Don’t Touch That Dial
This morning I was a guest on the KZBL “Jamming with Johnny” talking about the Tricentennial CD and my song on it. I realized that the only other time I’ve been on the radio was about 30 years ago back … Continue reading
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Tagged music, Music, radio, specialization, universal language
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