Music
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In Gratitude to a Donor Back in the early ‘70s I worked in a couple of record stores and I heard a lot of music to the point of satiety and well beyond. Sometimes music that I liked mildly, such as the Eagles’ Desperado, was run into the ground, and music that I didn’t much…
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Sunday Night Journal — July 18, 2004 I was not at all prepared for the most recent album by The Innocence Mission, Befriended. The Innocence Mission have been around for some time, their first album having been released in 1989. The only one I’ve heard extensively is the second, Umbrella. It’s a good, well-crafted album,…
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Sunday Night Journal — February 15, 2004 A correspondent writes, in reference to my February 1 entry: …that the music of a time doesn’t necessarily reflect the mood. Look at depression-era jazz, for instance—much of it is quite exciting and joyful…the idea of course is that people need joy and excitement when times are hard.…
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Sunday Night Journal — February 1, 2004 In an otherwise conventional speech (reported here) [sorry, that link is no longer valid -mh 6/22/2010] justifying an abortion she had in the 1950s before she was married, the novelist Ursula Le Guin recently made an odd and extremely sad statement: that if she had not been able…
Light On Dark Water 