“Tomorrow Belongs to Me”
“Music can madden and it can help heal the broken mind. If it can be the ‘food of love,’ it can also trigger the feasts of hatred.” –George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life, 81.
Category: Music
Song of the Night
Norm Finkelstein recommended this song, and now so do I! Now if you feel that you can’t go onBecause all of your hope is goneAnd your life is filled with much confusionUntil happiness is just…
Instead of Reciting a Gatha, Here I Am Listening to Dylan
Leave at your own chosen speed….
Dylan’s Tweets
Yesterday I had lunch and spent some time with Andrew Ivers, a gentleman and a scholar, at Courtesy Diner on Hampton. Of course, we eventually came around to Bob Dylan, after Andrew gave me a…
The Good News of Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations
The 1955 recording The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. –Glenn Gould
In Appreciation
“Her records were the first evidence that one did not fight alone. It was playing of such uprightness, to put it into the moral sphere. There was such a sense of repose that had nothing…
Inspiration for the Day (or Decade)
If I hadn’t heard the Robert Johnson record when I did, there probably would have been hundreds of lines of mine that would have been shut down—that I wouldn’t have felt free enough or upraised…
DJs
Dear Zosia, I was playing some Dylan a while ago as I was trying to get my study in some semblance of order. Then I picked his Chronicles off the shelf and opened to the section when…
“Up to Me” (National Poetry Month, 4.22.22)
Dear Vanessa, It took me a few weeks to work in the 2016 Nobel Laureate of Literature in these NPM missives to you. Is he a poet? He’d say “song-writer.” This is one of my…
Still Swirling through My Mind
To live outside the law you must be honest About having to be scrounging for your next meal Look out kid, it’s something you did Yes, indeed, you gotta serve somebody There was something about…