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Happy “xx day” [Update, 2018]

I think I’d have to say that my current ‘favorite band’ is The xx. I could listen to their music (& don’t auto-replace this next word with ‘figuratively’ because I really do mean it…) literally for hours on end. Unlike a lot of the music that creeps into our conciousness in this media-saturated world, I […]

Ten Books

Joining in on the annual list-making frenzy, with my “top 10 (most meaningful) books”, in a kinda-sorta-chronological order: Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury) ~ What Bradbury means for me: October. Halloween. Carnivals. Magic. Aging…  This story smells like dry leaves & used bookstores. Dune (Herbert) ~ In a 3-way tie with STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND […]

But the barriers of distance are crumbling

“Behind every man alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local […]

Kool Keith & Tom Waits

Super-duper awesomeness. “Spacious Thoughts” NASA feat. Kool Keith & Tom Waits from Fluorescent Hill on Vimeo.

Ya-Ka-May

…what’s been burning up my CD /mp3 players this week is the latest album from Galactic, Ya-Ka-May.