Category: Music
Matthew Barton – When I Was Young
It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards... Life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully understood. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Journals...
Furry Lewis – Judge Harsh Blues
The Mississippi Delta is a great wedge of alluvial floodplain — the dirt that’s laid down when a river comes out of its banks — that begins just below Memphis, reaches 90 miles across at its widest, then tips out at Vicksburg where the Yazoo River joins the...
Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train
I don't know when I first heard 'Freight Train.' I may have heard 'Freight Train' when the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group performed it on the Ed Sullivan Show when I was three months old. The song was a big hit for them that year, reaching #5 on the UK charts. Or I may...
Static In Verona – Blinking Midnight
I am not calling Puddy. What did I do with my gloves? Oh, I bet I left them over at Puddy’s. I should call him. I need those gloves. No, I better not. I’ll call. (looks at table) Oh, look at that! There are the gloves. I was just about to call. There they are. That’s...
Wild Daydream – A Picture of You in a Picture of Me
Businessman: Don't take that tone with me young man. I fought the war for your sort.Ringo: I bet you're sorry you won.Reporter: How did you find America?John: Turned left at Greenland.-- from A Hard Day's Night (1964) Crank up the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody: I saw A...
His Pioneers – Help Me Myra
The years passed; mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes that genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution but, sadly, the greatest minds and resources were focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections... The number...
The Rabies – Adderall Girl
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost? -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life To make a comeback, one must have previously achieved something. I can never make a comeback. If I ever accomplish...
Wilson and The Catholics – Strawberry Hill
Think summer movie and the mind leaps to the Hollywood Blockbuster variety -- Jaws, Star Wars -- movies released to the world during those hot months when people have time on their hands and a desire to be in a cool, dark place. And here we recall a simpler...
The Suncharms – 3 Billion Heartbeats
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. -- Misattributed to Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong The human heart beats about three billion times during its lifetime, a lifetime...
Guest Post by Matthew Barton – Hide
You're lucky you don't feel you have to hide. I wrote those words in a song called 'Hide' a few years ago. I don't know exactly who I was singing them to, but the sentiment was clear to me: there are just some things that we feel we have to keep hidden. What we think,...
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Low Ceilings – Grass is Greener
He is the god and yet his eye rests with concern on the human race, because the tender shoot of the individual can be crushed as quickly as that of a blade of grass. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition The corn, the grass, the fragrance of the night, together with the...
Vary Landers – Uselessness
We may define a disorder as any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation. -- George A. Kelly, The Psychology of Personal Constructs (1955) If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten. --...
William C. Jones – Only Love Can Stay
Breathing in, I see myself as still water, a calm, clear lake in and around me. Breathing out, I reflect things just as they are, inside and around me. Breathing in, I see myself as the big blue sky, with lots of space in and around me. Breathing out, I feel very free...
Bacon Hammer – The Arms of Jesus
Today is Easter Sunday, the day on which Christians celebrate the Resurrection of their Lord and Savior. Non-Christians, and most Christians, too, for that matter, celebrate the arrival of a large rabbit that scatters eggs around the house in a perverse re-enactment...
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