I am trying something new. It makes me a little nervous, but what the hell, I’ve done way stupider stuff that makes me nervous too. What I’m going to do is to start using this forum to present and hopefully discuss work in progress. After 30 weeks of writing mostly about music, and getting [...]
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One cool thing about trading turfs is discovering local legends. Talking about Baby Huey. Not the St. Louis rapper much less fitted to the name, but the 350 pound six foot one Chris Farley of soul music, James “Baby Huey” Ramey. James Ramey was probably the fattest heroine addict ever posthumously credited as a [...] Part One: The Lungfish Everybody knows that Jimmy Page dug Aleister Crowley. He bought the guy’s mansion, practiced Crowley rituals, hell, he even conned the rest of the band into adopting magick symbols for the infamous fourth album. Wonderful. I’ve read some Crowley, even attended an actual Crowley mass (don’t ask, but if you [...] or alternately, hipsters try to ruin one of my favorite pieces of music and then redeem themselves by playing some of their own music. For the good kind of sloppy, please refer to this post. Acting like a snarky, know-it-all gets one nowhere in life; it stirs up resentment and difference [...] I wish I could remember what that was a reference to. I certainly didn’t mean to equate my tenure on GBI with WWI trench warfare last week, so god knows what I’ve got myself into this week. But I’m not really kidding. I feel blank, wiped out. Perhaps it’s a function of leaving [...] Click on the podcast link in the right margin of this blog to hear OLDER episodes of the NONALIGNMENT PACT podcasts. Click HERE to listen to this episode or go HERE to listen to old and new shows with the embedded player. If you need help, just ask. Please submit guesses for my [...] I arrived home yesterday in a funk. Actually I’d been in a funk since the morning as R & O had left for a trip for Mexico and due to the short notice, I had to stay behind. So what’s the worst thing you can do when you are feeling down? I’ll tell ya [...] In Latin America there is a long standing tradition of singing decimas. A decima is a ten line verse or stanza with a rhyming pattern of ABBAACCDDC. Decimas can be pre-written, but often they are improvised. They are also used in many contexts and find their way into many genres and styles of music [...] Many miles away something crawls from the slime Age 13, I was convinced that all the adults in my life were dull dummies who wouldn’t open their ears to the good stuff and just needed a zit-faced kid to show them where it was. So I blasted Richard Pryor albums and the [...] |
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