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As 2015 approaches, I am feeling road-tested. I mean, I have been driven around the block a few times. I mean, like over and over and over a...

Living in the moment. Living moment to moment. I recommend it. Days run away like wild horses. Years pass by in a blur. You blink, and there...

Our recycled world. And then there is music about music. Songs about other songs. And bands really trying to be other bands. And movies ab...

I grew up in the "Generation Gap" era. Also there was the "Pepsi Generation." There were all these kids, and then there ...

Some things get better with age. Guitars. Tube Amps. Fine wines. Bourbon. Some things decidedly do not get better with age. For instance h...

And yes, maybe we are stuck on a cross too.  We are nailed to a contradiction.  Our bodies are imperfect, fragile, subject to time and decay...

Whatever the story. This day is sort of a remembrance and celebration of events that supposedly happened long ago. Who knows if it was the r...

Believing. I believe it helps to believe. In something. Not sure what. But just believing in something. Something greater, or bigger, or mor...

Since everyone has a megaphone, everyone has a platform to vent, everyone has something to say, and everyone really, really wants to be hear...

That's how it goes. You think it's gonna be one thing, then it turns out to be another. You think it's gonna be bad, turns out b...

Maybe it was the gleam in the eye. Maybe it was the studied vacantness. Maybe it was the look of embarrassment when I mentioned our past sha...

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."   I kind of understand that Dylan line even more deeply than I ever d...

2015? Really? It sort of sounds like a hoax, right? It sits uncomfortably on the tongue. Can it really be? Seems like some strange, distant ...

Yes, America's Pro-Torture Cult.  I guess I'm kind of surprised and horrified that there should be such a thing, but then again, why...

Yes, and then, counter to Albini (see previous post) the Shazam Effect is probably bad for music. People like to listen to popular songs th...

I must admit I really enjoyed Steve Albini's take on the state of the music industry. He's seems pretty pleased with the new landsc...

"FYI: When your girlfriend tells her girlfriends that she is ' living with Keith Richards,' it isn't necessarily meant as...

What you want… You don't want to be everybody's favorite band.  Too grand. Too bland. You think it must entail some serious compr...

This Woman, she's been rumored to be (horrors) , a "Fundamentalist Christian," (Yikes! She doesn't believe in climate chan...

I had the exact same reaction as Kevin Drum to those trying to "defend the indefensible." Torture is Not a Hard Concept.   There ...