Hold your nose

I’ve been looking for this. Bless youtube.

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So Stories

I heard “Red Rain” on KTXT one night soon after So was released. I knew a little Peter Gabriel before then, but I loved that aural space. Eno and Lanois would follow the next year with The Joshua Tree‘s big landscapes, but So was something comprehensive to me; there was something inside the bass and [...]

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automated response

Anything could happen, but I think I’m on break for a while. Let’s say. . . August. Check back with me. I’ll miss you.

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Better Mileage Through Science

Or math. There are a few things we try to do to save moolah, and now they are feeling more like things we are doing to afford fuel. To name a few, 1) Cancel Netflix (I like Netflix) because we can get our movies through the library. This would go for audiobooks, too, if I [...]

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The Cross and the Inoperable Hard Drive

If I’d been writing last week, I would have included this then: Nothing is more important than the cross, except the perfect reign of God. Indeed, when we suffer with love, his reign has begun in us, and we must be contented with that as long as God defers the consummation. Francois Fenelon, Talking with [...]

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River on Fire

I remember going up to the college radio station late one night, and my friend happened to be doing his show. He was a constant reader, a brilliant student, passionate about everything beautiful; everything was burning with grace to him. We said hellos, started chatting, and he suddenly held up his hand and said, “Wait, [...]

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Six Degrees of Van Morrison

I’d heard Big Pink, but didn’t quite get The Band until an aunt-in-the-spirit suggested I check out Robby Robertson’s 1987 self titled album. “It’s like a tent revival,” she said, and it was (“Testimony,” a track recorded with U2, is exactly that). That was kind of a big moment for me, I think. It eventually [...]

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The Other Side of Summer

I would like to write a song about how I could fulfill an adolescent dream by seeing the Police and Elvis Costello play the Hollywood Bowl this Spring (yes, together), but that the performers and the dream are not what they once were, and the $600 tag was not in the dream. True, I could [...]

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Man vs. machine

One of the young’un’s V’tines cards, which he enjoyed for what it contained rather than what it brought to my mind, stated in the declarative and not the imperative: “Punch-out cars for Valentine’s Day!” I’ve had years where that sounded about right.

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Tagged

Sweetpea tagged me, and I kind of dig this one: “The rules are to pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more, find page 123, find the first five sentences, post the next three sentences, and then tag five people.” She would be reading Austen, just as I always imagine her. You are [...]

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