Arthur Hall: Village Under Snow; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Every holiday season for the last 8 years, I’ve put together a mix of favorite music for the quiet winter months. Once the snow starts to fly in October, and on through March, winter is my quiet time and music is a fine [...]
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musical me: alone in a snowy landscape
Posted in music on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
stop the music for a minute
Posted in music, spirituality on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Since my first Walkman in the early ’80s, I’ve tended to carry music around with me, listen in the car while driving, listen while walking or jogging, listen while at work. I’ve driven my family crazy with music playing, especially because once the music’s on, I don’t listen to them as attentively. Some calm music [...]
musical me: saturday night rebel
Posted in music on March 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I returned home from France in January 1981, the world had changed. I came home to a new house that was built during my two-year mission, my parents had separated, most friends from high school were away at college or married, and somehow I no longer knew how I fit in. I had a [...]
a perfect pop song
Posted in music on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t do best-of lists (typical for this time of year), and I don’t like to rank songs and artists. I’m more of a generalist: there are good songs, great songs, and then there are absolutely untouchable songs that will always be perfect. I found a classic TV clip of one of the perfect songs [...]
musical me: wim mertens
Posted in music on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In April 1979 a plane touched down at the Brussels airport. It was a slightly rainy but lovely spring day in Belgium, and it was the first time I’d set foot in Europe. I was beginning my two-year sojourn serving a mission in France and Belgium. After returning to the USA in 1981, I returned [...]
musical me: the introverted DJ
Posted in music, tagged Kaysville, music, people on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A meeting with myself at 24 would be awkward, to say the least. Not as bad as, say meeting myself at 13. I don’t know anyone who’d want to see themselves at 13, in the worst of their gawky adolescent years. My second worst awkward period was in college, when I was trying to find [...]
musical me: my history with the LP
Posted in music, tagged childhood, music on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now that most popular music doesn’t really exist physically, only as data files to be played on little computer devices, the joys of the Long-Playing Record seem quaint. I still have a motley collection of old albums and I’m always surprised when I put one on the stereo and hear the rich, high-fidelity sound that [...]
the joys and consolations of the internet, part 1
Posted in family, memory, music, tagged childhood, internet, music on February 4, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Ain’t the internet great? It’s like this vast collective memory, the large majority of which is completely useless and foolish. Still, it has its charms. I’ve been a bit more reflective than usual in the last couple of years. In between moments of panic about my health and life expectancy, I tend to think back [...]
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