Just in case everybody was kinda weirded out by the last post (insert slyly self-satisfied giggle), here’s a traditional blog thingamajiggie to get us back on track. For the first time in my life, I realize I have been “tagged.” (Have I been tagged before without knowing? Shiver.) From Jessica Duchen: Find the nearest book. […]
I detest autobiography. What is it but a footnoted freakshow, a whipped, tired, suburban casserole of failed ontology, or more simply: a pathetic excuse for the past? And yet I’ve been seized, compelled. My hands shake with scribbling tremors. I find myself–yes, me!, after all my patient perfectionist hours!–acting like an impulsive homo sapiens, thrusting […]
Feeling bereft of nuanced, thoughtful musicological comparison? Well, fret no further; the Rev. Al Sharpton is on the case: “[Brown] made soul music a world music,” Sharpton said. “What James Brown was to music in terms of soul and hip-hop, rap, all of that, is what Bach was to classical music. This is a guy […]
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