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"A Taste of Honey"

This next piece was written sort of as a bookend to the personal Hell described in my last blog entry. It's another old review, this time about the record that managed to accompany me back towards the Light at a time when all else seemed like Darkness.

I really do need to write some new stuff, but in the meantime....

The...
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NIN: The Downward Spiral
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Notes from my Breakdown

I was browsing through some old record reviews I had written when I came across this little monster. It was written just after a time of personal crisis. It seemed altogether fitting to review the Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral" through the filter of someone (yours truly) in intense pain. I'm happy to...
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Oracular Spectacular from the Inside Out
A review

What happened would have been unthinkable for most of my life. Im old enough to remember the Old Times, when albums were burned permanently into some plastic medium, like chiseling hieroglyphics into rock; whether they were magnetic squiggles on tape or bumps in vinyl grooves or whatever the fuck they do to the plastic on a CD,...
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David Bowie is Pissing Me Off

I just bought the David Bowie album Heroes which I had never listened to before. Of course, I'd heard the title song "Heroes." And I dug Bowie primarily from his glam-Ziggy days. And I dug Brian Eno who collaborated on all the tracks with Bowie; Robert Fripp is also in the band for this album.

Wait a minute. I...
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Been listening to Pulp's "This is Hard Core" since - well, it seems since as long as I can remember. But it was probably really only since Tuesday. Tuesday: long drive home to my house in the woods from the play rehearsal in town. Don't get out much since my son was born almost 2 years ago, but when I do I like to crank...
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