This one was posted late last night and had only five views thus far. It’s a perfect representation of Portland. Give it a try:
Behold the most popular video in America this morning:
Here’s an interesting blog piece about the Replacements one and only appearance on Saturday Night Live in January of 1986. (Thanks to Tim Midgett.)
When you get to be my age much of the experience of listening to new music is about reference points. I remember a half-decade ago hearing for the first time the song Munich by the Birmingham, England-based Editors, a dark, muscular band that managed to evoke all the grime and grit, the monotony of industrial, …
This new video from PJ Harvey is stunning. The song, ‘Written On The Forehead’, does an amazing job of being a shimmering thing of beauty, as Polly starts off singing about “throwing dinars at the belly dancers” and it is only then that the import of the lyrical content is realised. For me, this is …
I came across this article, “Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System, and it got me thinking. https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/11 U.S. Government policies have certainly weakened our education system — but to say it is being destroyed is an overstatement. I agree that our emphasis on rote learning, our de-funding of public libraries, our pursuit …
Here’s a 47 minute preview of the entire album: