It’s amazing how many rituals we participate in without realizing it.
Deep Cuts: Ritual Songs
Deep Cuts: Songs For Coming Home
It’s that time of year again when we pack up the station wagon and return to the nest.
Deep Cuts: Spring Songs
Spring is the bee’s knees, and not just
Deep Cuts: Your Funeral Playlist
While you’re reading this, I’m sitting stiffly in my Sunday clothes, paying my respects to a lost friend. Too soon, too soon.
Deep Cuts: Dream Songs
Dreams are perhaps second only to love as lyrics topics.
Deep Cuts: Press Play When I’m Dead
Between this week’s memoir piece, my mother’s illness, and my ever-present awareness that I’m falling apart, death has been on my mind a lot lately. There’s nothing I hate more than going […]
Deep Cuts: All Along the Watchtower
My DJ buddy Falcon did a weekly one hour late night show built around a theme, basically “Deep Cuts” but on the radio. He was kicking around the store one day, complaining […]
Conversations With Adrian Bellue, part 3
(Last week Adrian shared the story of a mysterious benefactor who donated to him a harp guitar. We pick up the conversation in progress, Hamburger Patty’s cheesy dance music in the background […]
119. Return of the Son of Son of Return of the Son of the Cutout Bin
It’s time to leave South Carolina: past time, probably. For the last two years you’ve been reading true tales of liquor, lust, and primer-gray Camaros. You are a patient lot. I can’t […]
97. Keep Your Eyes on the Road, Your Hands Upon the Wheel
Third period, art. The only place in that horrible school where I wasn’t a pariah. Art classes tend to attract an interesting mix of students. We had the Easy A’s, the Very […]
Why It Matters 