Swans

108 shopping days until Swans perform at Atlanta's Terminal West.  Better start shopping for earplugs now.

RIP John Lennon (1940-1980)

Thirty-four years ago today, also a Monday night. . . I was teaching high school (Earth and Physical Science) in Salem, Massachusetts, site of the famous witch trials of 1692 and 1693.  Relaxing that night, watching Monday Night Football - the Patriots (naturally) versus Miami - when sportscaster Howard Cosell delivered the one bit of news that I would have preferred to have heard anybody but Cosell deliver. 

The next day, I had to try and explain the impact of the event to a bunch of 9th and 10th graders. Words failed.

Eric D. Johnson

The soothing sounds of Eric D. Johnson on the Deschutes River.

Quartet for Heart & Breath

Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry's solo project Quartet For Heart & Breath at Basilica Soundscape 2014. 

New Hilang Child Video

We stole all the praise

We laughed at the old ways

And tomorrow we ride

Tomorrow we all hold on to life

Waste it all

We hid from the jeers

We gained all the long years

And were told it's the life

Told we would all grow up to die

Waste it all

The rest stayed the same

And crawled into old age

And they almost survived

Almost got all of us to lie

Waste it all

Tomorrow we ride

Tomorrow we all grow up to die

Waste it all

Sonny & The Sunsets

Sonny & The Sunsets at Bunk Bar, Portland, MFNW (RIP), 2013

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