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Let me preface this by saying that I absolutely loathe commercial radio.  It’s unfathomable to me how it even exists in this day of Ipods, MP3 players, and Sirius Satellite, but there it is.  I very seldom turn it on, but the day conspired against me.

It started the night before. Saturday night we were up very late waiting for my…

I have a column due at CHIZINE and an essay due at STORYTELLERS UNPLUGGED so instead of a longer post, I present the group - and the song - that caught my attention during last night’s episode of LIFE - which I find fairly fascinating.  They make very good use of the background music, sometimes turning the episode into a long music…

Not sure what happened to our audio levels…you may have to turn your volume WAY up…

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Many of you will remember how I met Larry McLurg, front man of the 1960s rock sensation The Mind Garage when he bought a copy of one of his albums from me on eBay.  I have worked with him on a possible book project that I still hope to finish one day titled “Something Funny Happened on the Way to…

And if that’s not enough…check the list of covers on this album. Johnny Cash pulled some of this off…but Glenn? Country Roads…take him home.

01 “Sing” (Travis)
02 “Walls” (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
03 “Angel Dream” (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
04 “Times Like These” (Foo Fighters)
05 “These Days” (Jackson Browne)
06 “Sadly Beautiful” (The Replacements)
07 “All I Want Is You” (U2)
08 “Jesus” (Velvet…

I claim absolutely nothing in the way of skill in the art of bookmaking. I now have a basic notion of how they go together…I have made two … this is the second, and it is now (for all intents and purposes) complete. I’ll be adding some sketches and some notes to the end papers. I wish I had still…

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I bring you…Sweet Home Alabama - performed in Russia by The Leningrad Cowboys and accompanied by the Red Choir…Surreal, and yet, you cannot look away…

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I’ve always wanted to try one of these to see if it would proliferate and spread all over the Internet like some seem to. There’s probably a generator somewhere, but I’m just going to write it out and post it and see what happens.

What song lyric taken completely out of context has become important to you?

“To put it in words,…