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Friday, April 10, 2009

So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright

So long, Frank Lloyd Wright.
I cant believe your song is gone so soon.
I barely learned the tune
So soon
So soon.

Ill remember Frank Lloyd Wright.
All of the nights wed harmonize till dawn.
I never laughed so long
So long
So long.

Architects may come and
Architects may go and
Never change your point of view.
When I run dry
I stop awhile and think of you

So long, Frank Lloyd Wright
All of the nights wed harmonize till dawn.
I never laughed so long
So long
So long.

My favorite architect, who passed away fifty years ago yesterday. Of course, Paul Simon wrote the song to his partner, Art, who holds a master's degree in mathematics and studied architecture. The plays on words dealing with architectural vocabulary make the song a double entendre as well as a farewell to a twelve-year partnership that was ending acrimoniously.
I've had the good fortune of seeing several of Wright's works, having traveled to Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois. We have a friend who lives seemingly down the street from Wright's Oak Park nieghborhood which made for a couple of nice visits years ago. My favorite is the near-complete renovation of the Robie House in the south side of Chicago, walking distance from the University. Beautiful works of art. Makes one wish that his own dwelling could be a piece of art worthy of study and praise. So long, FLW.

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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Kingdom of Days

One week ago tonight, I caught 'em. Drove down to San Jose and saw the band bang out a wonderful two hour-forty minute performance that announced to the world, "this one could be another great one!!!!" Then I read the news today that Bruce was named as "the other man" in a divorce case filed in New Jersey. I'm going to stay out of both of those marriages as I struggle in my own daily. Remaining happily married as an adult is one of the hardest things in life next to life itself. Still sad to read, though. Rumors floated around a year or two ago and a couple of songs on the new record now take on new meanings. And yet, there's a setlist to review:

April 1 / San Jose, CA / HP Pavilion
Notes: Bruce and the E Street Band go west to kick off the Working on a Dream tour in San Jose, their first of three California shows. The structure from the second Asbury Park rehearsal was clearly the model -- the setlist was nearly identical to March 24, opening with "Badlands" into a hard-rocking "Outlaw Pete" (Springsteen threw on a cowboy hat for this one) and onward. But a few additions to the set stretched this opener to 26 songs already, suggesting that Bruce is still putting the pieces into place.

The "hard times" arc of the show -- the fantastic Recession Trilogy of "Seeds," "Johnny 99" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad," into the "Good Eye" blues -- was followed by a surprise mid-set cover: "Good Rockin' Tonight." It served as an antidote to those blues, and an invitation -- "Baby, bring my rockin' shoes / 'Cause tonight I'm gonna rock away all my blues / Have you heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight" -- and a smart transition into the back half of the show.



And the signs are back! Just a few songs later, "Growin' Up" was played by request, and in the encore, "Thunder Road" was an audible after someone in the audience gave Bruce a small poster from the Robert Mitchum movie.

Still a lighter focus on the new album than we'd expect at the beginning of a tour. The sixth and final Working on a Dream track was "Kingdom of Days" toward the end of the main set, one showgoer describing it as "gorgeous, with Patti singing at a mic next to Bruce, and Bruce clearly focusing attention on her to highlight her role in his life. This to me was the show that did not happen, the personal show, because the times just don't call for it."

Overall a solid opener, clocking in at 2:40, with a few minor hiccups, but not nearly as many performance kinks as past Night Ones and a quick pace -- Bruce and the band, in mid-tour shape, played continuously without a break from the opening until 90 minutes into the show. What we'll be watching for as we move to Night Two, Night Three, and beyond is a show that feels new, and reconciles the new material with the times.


Setlist:
Badlands - Dammit, start the concert already!!!! It's 8:35 and most places wrap up by 11:00. I was panicking but the band came out happy;closer to the 99-00 version with the audience chant. Good energy, wind mill guitars but a bit of a slow tempo. Nerves?
Outlaw Pete - as good as I imagined it. Yes; let's now call this song epic. Just wish it was stretched out even loooooongerrrrrr!!!!!
My Lucky Day - band hitting its stride, though the vocals were tough to hear. LOVED hearing Bruce and Steve sing together, especially on the same mic.
No Surrender - stalwart; no problems.
Out in the Street - I love this song, though tonight was a bit slow. It's the first show of the tour and it's apparent. "To become a man to grow up and dream again" is one of Bruce's best lyrics ever.
Working on a Dream - really pulling for this one but it was a bit sub-par. Couldn't understand the vocals again and it was hard to join in when Bruce told us to sing it like we meant it.
Seeds - understood its importance in Reagan-era America. Revved up in blues form. Great guitar soloing, though it's never been a favorite of mine. Cool to hear a new oldie, though.
Johnny 99 - "It was more than this that put that gun in my hand". Chilling as it's understandable. Lively, though ironical as people who dropped $115 a piece (face) and spending $50 on t-shirts, $20 on parking and God knows how much on booze singing about hard times like they understand them.
The Ghost of Tom Joad - one of the highlights of the night. Nils' solo killed and the full-band re-arrangement was awesome. Excellent choice and yes, I identified.
Good Eye - the first of two fumbles of the night. Couldn't understand the bullet mic lyrics, now going on the third straight tour. On record, it's a decent blues but Bruce isn't about blues. I think I went pee.
Good Rockin' Tonight - classic cover that meant absolutely nothing. Uber-fans rave about River-era b-sides like this that "shoulda been released on Tracks" that are simple, three-chord songs that mean nothing. I shoulda peed.
Darlington County - and then Bruce starts collecting signs at the beginning of this. I LOVE this song and while the band took a while to warm up, it was fun to just close my eyes and sing.
Growin' Up - from the signs. FANTASTIC. Loved it and for the first time.
Waitin' on a Sunny Day - sing-songy and cool to hear for the first time since '03 though I could go either way with this one.
The Promised Land - I do think it's time that this one be hung up for a while, especially since it was pivotal for the Magic Tour that was so anti-Bush.
The Wrestler - This one could have been the best song of the night. Never thought I'd be hearing this one. The protagonist is about rejection and the lack of redemption. The dynamic delivery by a half-band made this the Racing in the Street for this tour. This is the one to catch. Especially in the light of today's news.
Kingdom of Days - and then there's the song about the struggles and beauty of marriage. Even being with your life partner can be difficult. For Christ's sake, life is messy. And yet, Patti moved to a mic stand close to Bruce, they often sang looking at each other, he with that goofy, stupid and awkward look and she blushing. At the song's end, he held her hand above his head for a long moment and they hugged and kissed. I don't know; don't really care. Let there be songs to fill the air.
Radio Nowhere - last tour, obligatory. That night, a total rocker!!!!
Lonesome Day - while this song needs to join Promised Land, it's one in Bruce's canon that really delivers pain, passion and hope. Tired as I was, I still felt it, though I didn't lift my hands so high for the chorus.
Born to Run - Thank God it wasn't in the encore!!!! A perfect place in the set for this one, and I felt myself loving the song because of that. How can you hate this one? Clarence soared on this and that made me very, very happy.
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Hard Times - the curve ball of the night and another of the best. Bruce has two vocalists, hold-outs from the totally under-rated Seeger Sessions tour, to powerfully deliver the backing vocals. A Stephen Foster song from the 1840s reminding us that good popular music is timeless. Unfortunately, this one is. Thankfully, the work and legacy of Studs Turkel, rest his soul, is, too. A killer.
Thunder Road - Bruce likes this one slow and that's fine, as Mary is now middle-aged herself. Loved hearing this one. When I get around to making my movie, this one's going to be the theme song. Great to see someone handing Bruce the movie poster of the Robert Mitchum film that inspired the song. He sang it just because the person handed it to him.
Dancing in the Dark - he even pulled a girl out to dance with. I love the song on the record. I'm really tired of this one live. If he's going to keep it, he should bury it earlier in the set. Just not here.
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out - and then I get this one...I just love this song. Didn't throughout the '90s, for some reason. I think because I didn't get the whole East Coast soul thing. Now I can't get enough of the song.
Land of Hope and Dreams - now we're talking. A bit rough in spots, including a flubbed opening mandolin-violin riff by Steve and Soozie. Abbreviated from the reunion tour though still powerful and spiritual for me.
American Land - I immediately thought of my oldest son, who holds my hands and dances with me in my family room when I play this. I tell him of our ancestors and where they come from, how long we've been there and how much this song means to me. He tells me how much he loves dancing with me to this song. The last time I played this for my family, I held my daughter's and son's hands and in ring-around-the-rosie fashion, we danced and laughed and I cried. A great song to finish with.

Glancing at my watch at 11:15, I was very happy to see that curfew had been broken by quite a bit. I happily marched to the car, drove home replaying the setlist in my head, collapsing at one in the morning and hitting work the next day. Now, please, just one more show before the band's announcement of retiring?!!?!?

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Backstreets, or Life Itself

Every day, I tell myself I need to release the thoughts that rattle around my brain and every night close to midnight, my head slams against my pillow and I pass out from near-exhaustion. School needs to change, or something about it, but I'm growing tired of some of my classes. I'm not stressing nor am I letting my failures as a teacher eat at me any more. Life's too short for that.

After seeing the Sean Penn film, Milk, I was touched to the core from Harvey Milk's story. I re-watched portions of the Times of H.M. on hulu.com and then purchased Randy Shilt's biography, The Mayor of Castro Street. Anyone even slightly interested in this man's life and energy needs to read this great book. Harvey Milk's personal story is placed within the context of the evolving American culture from the end of World War II though the early 1980s after Harvey's assassination. If one doubts much of the film's dialogue as too good to be true, read the book and learn that much of the figures' words were what was recorded. After finishing the book, I youtubed archival footage and modern day interviews regarding the events of 1978 and its thirtieth anniversary. Weird, in a sense, the feeling for me that by reading the stories, watching the videos and listening to his words, I could bring Harvey Milk back to life. In that, I believe that my love for history has distorted my sense of the present; whatever I'm reading about, whatever I'm teaching my students, in a way, I'm living. My present is the past of our nation. I'm not sure that's healthy for my own personality but there's a comfort, even in the tragic events such as the Moscone-Milk murders, the collective experience that is history. Maybe a projection of my own personal idiosynchrocies into the "story" of our country. Maybe a bit ego-centric, but the study of history is "I is us". I kind of like that, though.

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Whatever...

M. Ward - Hold Time. Liking the spritual yet non-preachy lyrics and mellow sound. And Zooey's visit, too.
Eagles - Desperado. A great concept album even with some uneven songs.
Gene Clark - epon.

Benny Green - Naturally.
Dave Brubeck - Time Out! Blue Rondo still throws me with that amazing 10/4 time opener.
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way. This, along with Bitches Brew; many a night, freshman year at UCSB, in my neighbor's dorm to this one. Then he'd screw it up and play Ride the Lightning. I never understood him.

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Ready To Get Back To Work

I know I'm that terrible of a dad when I'm champing at the bit to get back to work, as I'm at the end of my rope being cooped up in the house with three sick and busy kids. Nothing much else to record except for my listening habits. Country-rock theme mostly going for the last couple of days. Last night, I caught the Carol King Live From the Living Room concert on PBS. Absolutely wonderful, so I dug some of that stuff out, too.

Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than...
Linda Ronstadt - Hand Sown...Home Grown, Silk Purse, epon.
Willie - Shotgun W.
Jackson Browne - For Everyman
Emmylou - Luxury Liner
Allmans - Bros & Sis's
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Skynyrd's Innyrds. The Allmans freaking played Freebird at the Beacon last weekend!!!
Gram - GP and Grievous Angel
Eagles - first record, Idlewild South
Grateful Dead - Workingman's and Beauty
Lee Ann Womack - There's More Where That Came From. Love it.
Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Duke Ellington - Masterpieces, Vol, I and II.
John Coltrane - Ballads
Branford - Metamorphosen. Brand new. Will write extensively on this later in the week.
Singer/Songwriters of the 1970s, Vol. I and II.
Carol - Tapestry

Have My Morning Jacket's Okonokos on now. Like.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

For A Single Payer?

We Americans love choice. We love the idea of having the freedom to choose what we want. And yet, what so many of us don't realize is that our freedom of choice comes with great cost. In fact, whether it be education or elections, we'd rather pay more believing the freedom of paying more is worth it. And then, these statistics come to us from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, via the San Francisco Chronicle. They'll make you get to the gym and eat better:

24x
- costs for health insurance in CA have risen 24 times faster than worker incomes from 1994-95 to 2006-07.

60%
- total costs in CA for an individual insurance policy increased 60% in 10 years - from $2500 in 1996 to $4000 in 2006.

83%
-the average family premium for employer-sponsored health coverage has increased 83% - from $6279 in 1996 to $11493 in 2006.

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Tenets To Live By (None Being George, Thank You)

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

The chain reaction of evil - wars producing more wars - must be broken or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
- Senator Robert LaFollette

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
- Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
- Noam Chomsky

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Milk

I was on hiatus last November and didn't even record my thoughts of the election. That month held many anniversaries, many sad. The Jonestown massacre. The 27th marked the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city council member Harvey Milk. I spent that day in reflection and remembrance. Now I can't seem to get all of that out of my head as last week, I saw the Gus Van Sant film, Milk. Twice, actually. Sean Penn soars in this role, truly losing himself in the part. A dramtic summary of The Times of Harvey Milk, a twenty-five year old documentary that I saw a couple of years ago. The film has made me reflect on the simple passage of time and the 'hometown' aspect of San Francisco. From a very young age, I remember the killings. I don't know why but I always remember the names Moscone, Milk and White. I remember my mom explaining the events to me and I remember KGO radio airing the stories. I was five and it's amazing what one remembers. Only as I grew older did I really learn Milk's story. While it's truly small on the level of historical importance (if this were to have happened in a smaller town, no one would remember this) on a national level, there is, of course, great symbolic importance. Milk's role in city politics was very limited and yet his legacy of civic activism still rings clearly today. That he 'found' himself when he turned forty and then decided to become an agent for change and action is not only remarkable but encouraging to anyone still wondering he can play a role of importance in society. And, of course, his sexuality and his hopes for social and legal equality. I take inspiration from Harvey Milk's story and see him not as a gay martyr but one who simply worked to bring about rights and equality for those who had not, and truly have not, reached full and equal rights. Odd to think that had he not been shot those thirty years ago would probably not be alive today as he was born seventy-nine years ago. And yet, even if only in the mind of this history teacher, his name will live on as I teach the 1970s and the struggle for civil rights among many disparate yet under-represented groups in this nation. i ordered his biography and will try to finish it before I reach the 1970s as I really want to share the story of Harvey Milk with my students this quarter.

See the film; it's an amazing story. Learn more about the story as it is one of triumph and tragedy. Learn about the man as his story is one we can learn from

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Rockin' In the Free World

Back from San Diego after visiting my family. Good time, though the trips were long. Uni High no longer exists, so my Almost Famous landmark is gone. Too bad. I did get to drive through O.B., though, so that was cool. Spinning

Van the Man - St. Dominic's (on St. Paddy's Day!)
Greenfire - good ol' Celts...
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Bruce - BITUSA, WOAD. Doing all I can to avoid the rehearsal show setlists. So far, so good. Hard to believe it's just one week away!!!!!!!
Sheryl Crow - Best of. I love her. Seeing the youtube clip with her at the Beacon with the ABB was killer. She's a babe and a rocking one at that.
U2 - No Line. Still working on this one, though the tunes are becoming catchier.
Jethro Tull - Aqualung. Because I'm a teacher, right? Just a great record.
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights. The best record no one's listening to...
Derek and the Dominos - Layla. Eric and the ABB boys. Too cool. I agree with drummer Butch Trucks that EC's lost quite a bit but still history-making to see him with them. The closest any one us now will get to that magical line up from 1970.
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams.
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning. Good music for grownups.
Allmans - Evening With, vol. I
Bob - Highway 61
John Mellencamp - Best of
Tift Merritt - Tambourine.

spent a lot of time in the backyard of my brother's new house, letting the kids play on the swings and slide and just enjoyed life in San Diego. Taught his AP classes and maybe they learned something. Learned just how nice private schools are. Went to the zoo. Participated in an Anti-Iraq War Anniversary rally and saw Cindy Sheehan. Brought the kids, so they can officially say they started young. Now I'm back and just killing time until school starts. Ran into an old friend this week. Twice, actually. Hard to believe she and I would end up raising our children in the same town we grew up in. Not sure whether a Garth Brooks or a Bob Seger song is more appropos.

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Going To the Country

Emmylou - Luxury Liner. Finally 'got' this one. Listened to it for two continuous hours and it wasn't enough. Just lovely.
EL - Pieces of the Sky
Waylon - Lonesome...
Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie. Picked up NEW for $5.50. Imagine that. The only way this record would sound better is if it were playing in an 8-track in a '70 El Camino while I was drinking Coors in the back while camping along a river. Not meaning this to be derogatory nor bigoted. What an incredible, incredible record. In fact, I'm going to so pass on the pretentiousness, I'm going to drink it straight out of the bottle ;)

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All That Jazz!

Spinning this from the jazzier side of things:

Joe Henderson - In 'n Out
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Bill Evans Trio - Portrait in Jazz
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Lester Young - With the Oscar Peterson Trio
Duke Ellington - Meets Coleman Hawkins
John Coltrane - Crescent

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

What Makes Me Happy

After my last rant, I need to clear my head. Here's what's been making me happy lately:

my children, when they're on.
late '50s jazz. Miles still slays me. Sonny Stitt. Hank Mobley. Rollins.
The Sun Also Rises. Want to finish it tonight and move on.
Baseball season right around the corner.
The weather.
The Allman Brothers Band's current Beacon run. And the fact that I have a ticket to see them in May. This will be the first time in four years and probably the last time.
The Coen Brothers (Burn After Reading - !!!)
Nat.
This.
Life on Mars.
Her.
Our Daily Bread. Maybe pretty relevant today.
And finally, THIS. Read the blog. Famous, almost.

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Mad As Hell...

And yet. And yet. Since January 20th, I have read and listened to nothing but vitriolic attacks and nay-saying towards the Obama Administration. People claiming that the president is steering us towards socialism. That The "Pelosi Congress" (whatever the hell that is) is a joke and has no clue as to what its doing. That the nation's ruined and that recovery is nowhere in sight. Maybe it's the news I read. Maybe it's the people I talk to. Or the city where I live. Well, I for one, am tired of it. Tired of listening to people whine about the Democratic party, the president the nation overwhelmingly elected (official results show Obama defeating McCain by a ten percent(!) margin) and tired of the current plans being crafted to help assist the nation to better health. Eight years ago, the nation was told that the majority party in Congress and the new president who actually lost the popular vote, were given a mandate to change the country's direction. The results were a war on science, a war on church/state separatism, a war on international diplomacy and the rule of law, a war on 'loyal oppositions, a war on fiscal responsibility, a war on Iraq, a war on liberalism and ultimately, a war on reality. Nearly a decade later, the nation is in dire straits. All of this and here what we have yet to really hear coming from the media outlets, cable news and in the bars and coffeeshops of the nation:

-while anger is being directed at 'those who lived beyond their means' for the last ten years, there is no anger towards the institutions that encouraged people to do so. Credit card companies, lending institutions, banks, corporations. In typical fashion, we want to throw the book at one nailed for abusing drugs and yet do little to crack down on the suppliers, though we know they are.

-while anger is being directed at the Obama stimulus package and its costs, where is the anger being directed at the spending habits of the previous ten years? Obama's plan costs $800 billion. Now, quadruple that. There's Iraq. No anger on the return of that? Anger is being directed at bail outs for mortgages, but most of it at the borrowers. The purpose of the bail out is to help solvent homeowners keep their houses close to their values. The purpose is to keep people in their homes. The purpose is to make sure that money, however it is being moved around in this shell game, to at least remain the value printed on the bills. That people can still trust banks and the stock market.

-while anger is being directed at the plunging stock market, who is asking the really important question: who the hell believes he or she should be guaranteed a 300% profit on an investment less than a decade old? Are these the same people who took a lot of their not-so-hard-earned-money within the last ten years, traveled to Las Vegas and played the high rolling tables? Why didn't anyone get indignant over the house taking so many people's money at the casinos? That's what the stock market really was. Speculation is a high-risk game and many will and should get burned in playing with that money.

-while people are terrified that the nation is being wrecklessly steered socialism, they don't stop to see that what has really helped maintain a sense social, economic and political balance in the sixty years since the end of World War II has been the 'intrusive state'. However, whether it be the G.I Bill or Head Start, the government has served as a positive force in the nation's postwar evolution. To hear people whining about health care and yet still turn away from a nationalized system of healthcare, especially the program offered to members of the national government, is ridiculous. Cheaper, more efficient, with less money going into the bureaucracy and more and better care provided to its payees, this sort of system is being withheld, almost by the economic elite because they simply don't want to share.

-where is the outrage at the mentality of corporate leaders who believe they're worth the hundreds of millions and billions they give themselves at stockholder (and now taxpayer) expense? No one; I repeat, NO ONE is worth that much money and all these huge bonuses and salary packages do is take money away from the companies and employees who should see profits and salaries increase as their CEOS have seen. We all teach our children to share and then teach our adults to cheat, lie and steal. Ironic.

-while we're trying to nail Obama and the Democratic Party to the wall, where is the outrage at George W. Bush and the neocon-/GOP base that pushed this style of governance over the previous two decades? The head of the SEC was asleep at the switch the last three years; I demand his head on a pike. Doubling the national debt in just eight years and wracking up yearly deficits and no accountability? So what, MCain lost the election. That's all the nation wants in return, a new guy? The analogous news story this week has been the Bernie Madoff trial. People are out for blood. They want him dead and they have no sympathy. Even as Madoff stands as the symbol of punishment for the actions praticed by countless people in the positions to do so, nothing has been heard regarding our previous fearless leader. I say we place a 100% tax on Bush's $150,000 speaking engagements. He deserves an ankle bracelet in order for law enforcement officials to track his every move. You never know if he may just call the Saud family for their yearly 'thank you' chat. He deserves a chapter in my AP government text for 'how to really fail your country and make people believe you succeeded' section.

I'm done. You were done a long time ago. I need to go to the store to buy groceries. I can't buy as much as I could five years ago. Guys my age can't buy as much as their dads could. I'm seeing the price of agricultural products, many receiving unnecessary subsidies though we're supposed to live in the free market, rise monthly. And yet, I'm happy, because Best Buy has been having a great sale this last month on cd's from the 1980s. While I drive, I'll be updating my Marx, changing replacing 'religion' to 'pop culture'. Then miss everything else important in my life as I whine and complain about the failings the current government makes.

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

On a two-week quarter break from school. Looking forward to nothng but family and feeding the self. Then ten weeks of modern U.S. History with a hundred students that were born the year I graduated from high school.

Have been listening to:

John Coltrane - Lush Life
JC - A Love Supreme
Sonny Stitt - New York Jazz
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Bill Evans - Village Vanguard, disc one
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Branford Marsalis - Contemporary Jazz
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Horace Silver - Finger Poppin'
Clark Terry - Ode To a Bus Seat
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris
Decca's Anthology of Big Band Swing
Woody Allen - Film Music, vol. I
Coleman Hawkins - Encounters Ben Webster

Clarence Carter - Snatchin' It Back
Wilson Pickett - Very Best of
Bruce - BITUSA, WIESS
Chris Hillman - epon.
Billy Joel - Turnstiles
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Allman Brothers Band - Fillmore Concerts

The last MUST be played on 3/12 and 3/13 in the Taylor house. There's a law.

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