Category: Song of the Day
laughingstock – Something Lite
To remain master of one's four virtues: courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude. For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man, in society, it must be unavoidably impure. All society makes one...
Under the Covers with Bob Dylan
There exist people whose lives were transformed the first time they heard Bob Dylan. Full disclosure: I am not one of those people. I eased into Bob Dylan -- adding a track here, an album there -- through a process of aggregation that's been ongoing for (cough cough)...
Five Songs to Brighten Your Friday Lockdown
Jukes, held with his head in chancery, had to listen to what seemed horrible suggestions.'Don't want... you get lost... so long... ship isn't... Rout... Good man... Ship... may... through this... all right yet.'All at once Jukes understood he would have to go. 'Do you...
The Gold Coast – All This Time
Every culture has an origin narrative, the story of how their people came to exist on this earth. The tales are passed from one generation to the next, vocally in cultures that do not have a written language. In my tribe the legend of Adam and Eve gained widespread...
Heart Eyes – Unassuming
Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down the yawning abyss becomes dizzy... Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of...
David Woodard – I Used to Be Cool and We’re Not Coming Back
Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around...
Three Flavors of Saccharine
Contributing to the discord will be a climate that equates opposing ideas or speech to violence and hate. Righteousness can fuel abhorrent behavior, and many react with a shocking level of vitriol and contempt for conflicting viewpoints and the people who hold them....
Junie & TheHutFriends – Boi Cha Cha
I'll give the media and the politicians credit: it took them about three days to get me from I ain't afeard o' no Corona Beer Virus! to HO-LEE @#%&!!! Last Sunday night we had dinner out with friends and family. Fast forward to Friday: the door is barred - no one...
Five Songs to Buy on Friday
Nothing makes you appreciate a functioning government like a global pandemic. -- Andrew Yang Andrew Yang has been described as The Happy Warrior, an appellation previously applied to Lord Nelson and presidential candidates Al Smith and Hubert Humphrey. But Andrew's...
Guest Post by Matthew Barton – And If I Tell You the Name of the Song I’ll Be Banned by Facebook
Watch us turn into eagles that fly. Look in my eyes, people realise... You must mobilise... -- from "Fag" by Matthew Barton The first thing I saw in my mind when I wrote "Fag" was an army. Well, a kind of army. I saw a growing band of rainbow warriors, poised to turn...