A post Tuesday about a gig Saturday…
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- Tuesday 31st August 2010
I’ll never learn. In any case, I’m playing 5:30 – 7 PM this Saturday in Montreal, at the big ol’ outdoor party they call Piknic Electronik. Stop by. People say it’s off the hook; I’ll fix…
“Strange Brewski” from The Poolroom Loafer
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- Thursday 26th August 2010
My friend The Poolroom Loafer, a talented DJ/producer, sends along this short but interesting piece of audio he just finished. It’s based on the song “Str**** Br**” by the British trio Cr***. Just in time for my upcoming gigs in Montreal (Piknic Elektronik) and San Francisco (benefit for the EFF). More about the gigs tomorrow (I hope), but for the moment, check out the latent funk.
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It’s a spoken word thing #5 (Bridey Murphy)
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- Wednesday 11th August 2010
In 1952, the US was in the throes of several different varieties of hysteria. The Korean War was pounding away; another confrontation between good (us) and evil (them). The US economy entered a stratospheric delirium, drunk with an unprecedented infusion of wealth that created the modern middle-class. Anti-Communist madness – led by the one, the only, the dipsomaniac Joseph McCarthy – led to…
It’s a spoken word thing #4 (Hard Times)
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- Monday 2nd August 2010
One of the most affecting books I’ve ever read is Hard Times, by the recently-deceased Studs Terkel. It’s an oral history of the United States during the Great Depression of the 30′s. Terkel interviewed every sort of person that lived in the US at that time; both the destitute and the people who were so wealthy they doubted the existence of the “so-called” depression, and fought Social…
