November 2007
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I expect that the number of people who read this blog and are also interested in last night's defeat of Alabama by LSU is somewhere between zero and very small. (For you non-USA readers: I'm talking about football–American football–the University of Alabama, and Louisiana State University.) Still, I have to pass on the best description…
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Swans: The Burning World For reasons not known to me this group is called “Swans,” not “The Swans.” I had heard of them here and there, usually described in terms such as “dark,” “scary,” “aggressive,” “noisy,” and so forth: terms which don’t exactly attract me but make me curious. I wouldn’t have gone to much…
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I remember vividly the first time I heard Nick Drake. It was in the mid-’70s, probably ’75 or ’76. I had gone over to visit my friend Robert, whom I had known for two or three years at that point; he had already introduced me to some good music and has continued to do so…
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I pay more attention to All Souls’ Day than to All Saints’, because I feel a more direct personal involvement in it. We’re forbidden to judge the state of another’s soul, but we (or at least I) can’t help having some kind of opinion. And I’m not entirely at ease about many of my deceased…
Light On Dark Water 