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Deep Cuts: Imaginary Songs
Well, okay. All of these songs are real, but they’re about imagining.
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Waiting for the Wind to Blow Me Away
My time in the military was brief, but at the risk of sounding vainglorious, during that period I was perhaps the most important individual in our great nation’s security mechanism.
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From the Stacks: Frank Zappa – ‘Just Another Band From L.A.’
I’m always on the hunt for a record I don’t have.
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Throw Beck Thursday: Relationships Crash, Just Like Airplanes
(Note: This was originally posted in 2011 in the wake of a horrific crash at the Reno Air Races.)
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Deep Cuts: Butterfly Songs
So yeah, butterflies were my mother’s thing.
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17 Butterflies
While filing albums a couple of nights ago, I found a greeting card. It was stuck in a box of pens, computer cables, record cleaner, more pens, and a few pocket notebooks.
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From the Stacks: The Beatles – Hahst Az Son
The Beatles remain the most documented band in history.
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Choose and Defend: The Death of Technology
There’s a short article this month in the Atlantic about the future of the automobile. It’s speculative, of course, but the gist is that by the end of this century cars as we know them will be no more.
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Throw Beck Thursday: James Makes Out At Science Camp
I don’t know why my mother thought that I would enjoy Summer Science Camp, but it meant two weeks living in the Clemson University dorms so I was game. She dropped me off with one hundred bucks in my pocket, a Frisbee, the new Rolling Stone (cover story: A Kurt Loder interview with Pete Townshend),…
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Deep Cuts: Apple Songs
Google “apple.” If your results look like mine, you won’t see a reference to produce until page 5. The first 4 1/2 pages are all Apple, not apples.
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