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Great new music for fall: Saturday Video Roundup
Chvrches, Metric, Meg Myers and IAMX lead the charge into autumn No major theme today – just some cool new discoveries. Let’s start with the latest from Chvrches – folks, end to end this is one of the absolute best pop CDs I have ever heard. “Leave a Trace” is the lead single and it’s the earworm from hell, but
Read moreRIP Yogi Berra, anchor baby
Would the GOP have deported Yogi Berra? Item 1: Yogi died last week. He was an American icon of the first order and a legendary practitioner of the national pastime. Wikipedia sums his career up nicely. An 18-time All-Star and 10-time World Series champion as a player, Berra had a career batting average of .285, while compiling 358 home runs and
Read moreJust a tree
… but one of my favorite trees. It’s a survivor; it’s a loner; it’s monument to the majesty of the Colorado Plateau. I posted a different angle of this scene this summer.
Read moreWhen a capella met metal: Saturday Video Roundup
So, I wake up this morning to find that Frank Balsinger has uncovered an a capella take on Rammstein’s “Du Hast.” Because of course somebody would have to do that, and of course Frank would find it. So for SVR today, let’s enjoy some a capella abomination. I guess that would be a bomination, huh? First, Viva Vox, and if you don’t get why
Read moreAudre Lorde: S&R Honors an icon of artistic vision, diversity and self-awareness
Audre Lorde taught us that power begins with knowing and accepting ourselves. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. The reading list for the contemporary poetry
Read moreStakeout: 1953 Packard Clipper
Nathaniel Rateliff & the NightSweats: CD of the Year candidate
Okay, the verdict is in. I’ve spun the eponymous Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats at least 20 times now and it’s a legit CD of the year candidate. I’m hearing influences ranging from Sam Cooke to Van Morrison to old Appalachian gospel. Let’s check a couple vids, shall we? Here’s the one people seem to be raving about, “SOB.”
Read moreCecil the Lion’s killer doesn’t quite get it
Walter Palmer, the dentist who killed Cecil the Lion, says he did nothing illegal and that he’s going back to work. I don’t think Dr. Palmer understands the issue. He doesn’t grasp why people are so upset. He thinks we’re all mad because we mistakenly believe that he broke the law. No, Walter, we know you acted legally. We live in
Read moreA♭, B♭: 16th Street Mall, Denver
How to take the perfect photograph? Hell if I know…
The other day I posted this shot, from Sarawub Intarot at National Geographic, on Facebook.
Read moreAbove the fruited plain
Security vs privacy: RadioLab and the case for the surveillance state
We all love freedom and the Constitution. But is it really that simple? I’m a huge fan of a good debate. And by “debate” I don’t mean the sort of ginned-up scream-lie-and-spinfests we have come to associate with the term in the past few decades. No, I mean spirited, intelligent, thoughtful exchanges between parties with honest, good-faith disagreements. Lucky me, I tripped across
Read moreBeatallica, Judas Gaga and AC/BG: Saturday Video Roundup
Haven’t done these in awhile. Ah, the perverse creative juices pumping through the intertubes…. Hey, remember that time The Beatles and Metallica did that collaboration? Here’s fellow scrogue Frank B’s favorite.
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