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The always-perceptive Theodore Dalyrymple has some interesting things to say about the question of what causes people to be good. More recently, perhaps on account of my advancing age, the problem of good has begun to preoccupy me. How is extraordinary goodness possible? Where does it come from? Is it innate? And if it is…
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Yes, it is really good. But I'm not sure I can watch two hours of anything for seven (!) nights in a row. That means pretty much doing nothing else in the evenings for a week. And they should have put in some kind of break between the two hours. (I know, record it, but…
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I guess this only applies to people in the U.S. We watched the first segment of Ken Burns's new documentary on World War II last night. It's really good. If you didn't see it last night, it's not too late to jump in with tonight's episode. One small complaint: the narrator does not pronounce "Mobile,"…
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Joanna Newsom: Ys It appears that hippies still walk the earth. Not just the survivors of that long-ago age, the often rather dazed-seeming geezers and grannies who show up at rock concerts and political demonstrations, but young people who seem to have adopted the sensibility and the style of a certain element of the ‘60s…
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Over at Alias Clio's. As I note in a comment there, almost every line is an aphorism. And a very wise one. I must read more Browne. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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(1) Grumbling to myself yesterday about Chris Rea's Blue Cafe not being distributed (through normal channels) in this country, it occurred to me to look him up on Wikipedia and see if there was any interesting information about his work over the past few years. Quite a lot, as it turns out: he was seriously…
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…that makes some people do things like this, and makes other people, for instance me, laugh at them. Even funnier, though, (and nothing to do with Bono) is the title of the last song on that album: "We Built This Village On a Trad. Arr. Tune." (If you don't get the joke, don't worry—in fact,…
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I noticed a headline on CNN's site a little while ago saying that the astronaut involved in the infamous NASA love triangle incident some months ago is back in court. When the story first appeared I naturally thought at once of Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos; specifically, the first of the two science fiction…
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Chris Rea: Auberge Everytime I hear Chris Rea I wonder why he isn’t more popular. His warm, gruff voice is striking and powerful, and his slide guitar work, although not flashy, is expressive in a way that doesn’t rely on the standard blues vocabulary. His best songs are terrific. He deserves a bigger audience. Then…
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Five Books Everyone Should Read Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago to name five books I think everyone should read. As an habitual maker of pop music lists (see the movie High Fidelity) I was intrigued, but the scope of the charge was really impossibly broad, so I had to narrow it somewhat…
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