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Quote of the Day...
"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."
-John F. Kennedy


Today's Music Lyric...
"Maybe there's a God above
But all I ever learned from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you"

(from "Hallelujah" by John Cale, 1992)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, and Richard Manuel.

My Blog

"Riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave..."

From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: a Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson... San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:05:00 GMT

"Stagger Lee shot Billy..."

The story of "Stagger Lee" is nearly as old as The Blues themselves. Usually credited as "traditional," it's the folk tale of a workingman on workingman murder from an African American barroom in ...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:52:00 GMT

"Astral Weeks" by Lester Bangs

Rock 'n' Roll's greatest writer/critic reviewing the single best work of art ever produced by man:  Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. From Stranded by Lester Bangs (1979): Van Morrison's Ast...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:03:00 GMT