Category Archives: Music
The Sea of Possibilities
For most socially challenged kids, high school becomes the final torment — a kind of ninth circle — at the end of an already unpleasant progression of mismatched interactions, rejections and instances of outright abuse. But somehow I really lucked … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cultural Leitmotifs, Heroes, Music, Reflections
Tagged Brian Eno, David Bowie, Horses, la mer (de), Land, Land of a Thousand Dances, Patti Smith
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The Creature
When I was a kid, I had these molded plastic figures of classic Universal movie monsters. I’m sure they were cheap, the sort of thing I could nag my mother into buying me on a visit to what passed for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cultural Leitmotifs, Heroes, Monsters, Movies, Music, Reflections
Tagged Creature from the Black Lagoon, Daniel Johnston, Jad Fair, Universal Studios
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