March 2015
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I know it was right around here somewhere but now I can't find it.
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I found this poor creature, apparently some terribly malformed waterfowl, perhaps an infant, washed up on the beach a few days ago. It couldn't have lived very long, having apparently no internal organs at all. And of course I immediately thought: Climate change! I'm not completely inventing this fear, either. I've always described myself as…
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In that recent discussion about Dylan, which led into a discussion of folk music, Daniel Nichols described his youthful discovery in a library of a recording of authentic Scottish folk music, and his immediate enthusiasm for it. That reminded me of an album I bought in the late '60s called The Lark In the Morning, a recording…
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All she asked of God was a Mercedes. Well, that, and a TV, and a few drinks. But Jesus wants him to have a private jet. Because the one he has is getting old.
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David Bentley Hart compares them as novelists, and puts Tolstoy higher. I can't give a very respectable opinion on that, because the only Tolstoy I've read was Anna Karenina many years ago, in my twenties. But I'm going to venture tentative agreement with him. In reading or re-reading Dostoevsky's major novels–Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov,…
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If you're a Richard Thompson fan, you really want to see this. Front and Center is a one-hour concert series on PBS (APT? what's the difference?). This one is the same trio that's on the Electric album, and is maybe better than the album, because the choice of material is broader. In my opinion RT's current songwriting…
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In the guise of a review of the recent Basement Tapes re-issues, and in an unlikely place–The Weekly Standard–this is one of the better things I've ever read about Dylan. It's called "AWOL from the Summer of Love." And in case you don't read it, here's what seemed to me a very significant bit (in…
Light On Dark Water 