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This was the first Galaxie 500 album I heard, which was in a way unfortunate, because its opening song, “Fourth of July,” is, to my taste, the best thing they ever did, and also rather different from most of their other work. I was disappointed with the rest of this album, and disappointed with their…
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The Hand of Rand A discussion on Dawn Eden’s blog the other day about the problem of sex-selection abortion struck a note that I haven’t heard before. The intial post was a story about the prevalence of this practice in India, and a challenge to the refusal of pro-choice feminists to condemn it. In response,…
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This is another album from the ‘70s that I missed at the time. It attracted quite a lot of attention and is now regarded as something of a landmark, which I’d have to say seems justified, although I don’t know a lot about the jazz-rock fusion genre. Landmark or whatever you want to call it,…
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I started doing this partly as a means of getting a grip on the overwhelming amount of music I've accumulated over the past several years, and partly just because I enjoy it. The accumulation is mainly a result of subscribing to eMusic, also of the wide range of used CDs available in local stores and…
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I bought this album a year or so ago as a result of having developed an interest in ‘70s progressive rock, a genre which I had disdained when it was current. When I first sampled Red I didn’t think too much of it and thought I would prefer the first two KC albums (this is…
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Welcome When I began posting my writings at www.lightondarkwater.com I told myself, and went out of my way to tell anyone who bothered to poke around there, that it was not a blog. I had the feeling that a blog would end up dominating my life and intended for LODW to be only a means…
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Sunday Night Journal — March 13, 2005 I once heard a music lover who lived in Manhattan say that he no longer bothered to go to concerts very often. Regarding the New York Philharmonic he said that it was more trouble than it was worth to get to Lincoln Center to “listen to Mehta do…
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Yeats vs. Eliot A couple of recent biographies of Yeats have, not surprisingly, provoked in some reviewers that potent urge to rank the modern poets as if they were so many sprinters or show dogs. This is an odd compulsion, and seems no less so to me for the fact that I find it in…
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Escape from Missouri I intend to keep my resolution not to write about politics for the next four weeks, but I think I can justify the use of one reaction to the election as a segue into another topic. Novelist Jane Smiley, writing for Slate, tore into the people who voted for Bush with a…
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I am now in a position to answer for myself the question I posed last week: whether Blade Runner or 2001: A Space Odyssey is, from the Christian point of view, the better film. On Monday night I was in the library and a copy of Blade Runner on the shelf caught my eye, so…
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