And yet again my city is being bombarded by Hamas missiles, half a dozen since last night. Thanks to the IDF’s Iron Dome for watching over me physically and to Laura for watching over me spiritually.
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050: The Rolling Stones, ‘Gimme Shelter’ (Kent State)
51 years ago, I walked onto my deserted campus and experienced a musical hallucination. That terrible time when American soldiers killed American citizens.
Continue reading...274: Tim Hardin, ‘Reason to Believe’
“The Perfect Song” and some indulgent navel-gazing. Do I choose the music, or has the music formed me? My personal existentiality as reflected a 2-minute paragon of restraint.
Continue reading...246: Tom Waits, ‘Kentucky Avenue’
The things you wonder about at 12. Airborne by wonder, lifted on the wings of imagination, from Lima or from Whittier, all the way to places we couldn’t yet even dream of.
Continue reading...037: Lee Konitz, ‘Alone Together’ (w. Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau)
Taken by the corona virus at 92, a great musician, a paragon of integrity, a role model. Rest peaceful-lee.
Continue reading...SoTW 14: The Woodstock Festival/הימים הטובים לפני ואחרי וודסטוק
50 years ago the Woodstock festival took place in upstate New York. I was there. I got wet and muddy and cranky and went back home after one night to listen to some of the same artists on my headphones.
Continue reading...159: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: ‘Ooh Baby, Baby’
In which Jeff indulges in gooey nostalgia, imbibes a few underage beers, ponders his life, and swills the unadulterated, luscious gush of emotion that is Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ ‘Ooh Baby, Baby’.
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