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Hate RIP Zero-2015
Hate – RIP – Zero to 2015 Remember when we thought the world was ending? Scores lay dead in Beirut and Paris We thought the wound was beyond our mending and no longer could we bear this We watched in cafes and kitchens, saying nothing new We wept, raged as wisdom walked away from view … Read More
Charles Herbert 1948-2015
Charles Herbert 1948-2015 Part One He was discovered while riding a bus he was four, out with his mom overnight star, his parents flush what could possibly go wrong? He didn’t eat the daisies with Doris Day Was at the OK Corral with Kirk Douglas The pay was amazing, he was on his way what … Read More
Melissa Mathison 1950-2015
Melissa Mathison 1950-2015 “She liked epiphanies,” Steven Spielberg recalled As she became history maybe mystery enthralled “E.T. phone home” was everywhere it seemed She didn’t know but she made the first meme From Oz to Odyssey, many times told seems odd to me how it never gets old but if in the retelling the phrasing has … Read More
Protected: October – RIP
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In The Studio: Recording The Kingdom of Summer Album
I am currently at work on recording a collection of songs for a new album to be called “The Kingdom of Summer”. I’ve spent the summer laying down basic tracks with Andrew Atkin at The Thread Arts Collective in Easthampton and anticipate a release date of March, 2016. The album is being produced by Joe … Read More
Summertime
Summertime George and Ira, arias and blues have to admire those New York Jews “I loves you, Porgy. Don’t leave me here.” They would of course be familiar with fear and caustic squalor and bitter fruit Wagner trumps Mahler with sharp-edged boots They sat at the piano on the Upper West Side mapping a plan … Read More
The Great Escape
Fifty years ago these Iowa Amish boys fled to the shelter of cornfields rather than obey the law that compelled them to attend public schools. I was just a little older than these boys but oh how did I look up to them. A few years earlier I had also escaped to these same fields. … Read More