3.21.24 No song tonight. I can’t pick one. Where I’m at, where I know other people I care about are at, this is needed much more. If you’re reading this, I hope you take the time to watch and listen to the video before. It’s the kind of thing that can change your life. It …
Month: March 2024
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: THE WORLD’S GREEN LAUGHTER by The B-52’s
3.20.24 Yesterday was the first day of Spring, and I just got home from a class I’m taking about the intersection of gardening and literacy. I’m also ignoring that there are snow squalls passing through as I write this. I’m ready for the verdant splendor of growing grass, flowers in bloom, and tree branches heavy …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: SCREEN DOOR by Uncle Tupelo
3.19.24 Down here, where we're at Everyone is equally poor Down here, we don't care We don't care what happens outside the screen door When No Depression — the 1990 debut album from Uncle Tupelo — was released, no one could have known just how big a splash the album and band would make. It …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: HOLD ON HOPE by Guided By Voices
3.18.24 Every street is dark And folding out mysteriously Well, that's the chance we take to be Always working Reaching out For a hand that we can't see This is a big one. I’ve been putting the words together in my brain for a few days now. In some ways, this piece has been under …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: I AM A ROCK by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
3.17.24 One of the most important aspects of music that I don’t focus on enough here (because I am a writer and like to imagine that I have IMPORTANT THINGS to say) is that music should be fun. If just farting around isn’t part of one’s musical diet, one gets navel gazey and self-serious. And …
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