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Tag: music
Inspiring Reviews
I do not create anything suitable to be reviewed. But if I did, I would hope to inspire reviews like Leonard Cohen: Come to think of it, it’s the kind of story you might hear in a Leonard Cohen song:…
Kris Kristofferson’s Feeling Mortal: An appreciation
I would like to invite you to listen to Kris Kristofferson’s album Feeling Mortal. I struggle to write anything useful about it, but it means a lot to me. I hear it as a concept album, not about death, but about…
Leonard Cohen, albums -The Dove Is Never Free
Leonard Cohen’s work is so good it tends to lift up those who write about him. For instance this line: “… given that “Hallelujah” was as much about triumphing over waning potency as it was about anything religious… ” Today…
Three thoughts about the Rolling Stones – Gloom and Doom
The emotional heart of my recent science-fiction/corporate espionage short story was inspired by Rolling Stones imagery. I am not entirely comfortable with my proclivity to treat real people as mythological figures in my internal cosmology. Nonetheless I recently returned to thinking…
Playing favorites: Cameron Crowe, redeeming Elizabehtown and trying my hand at film criticism
Q: What is your favorite film? A: An unhelpful question. “Favorite” is vague enough to be meaningless and my answer is likely to change based on a variety of social contexts – none of which come into play when questioning…
Life – Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Media Images and so on
Eventually this post will resolve into a minor point of media criticism. But it starts with… I just finished “reading” the Keith Richards “autobiography” Life. Whew, that was a lot of hyperlinks. The word reading is in quotations because I listened…