It's amazing to me just how far back I can remember being a total agnostic.Heck, I was an agnostic in grade school! All of us kids were. You'd think my mother (who professed belief and had a DEEP Catholic upbringing) would have been able to sway us, but I guess life with my father left a strong enough impression that it blew any reasonable assertions about god/gods out of the water.Anyway.In ...
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...and speaking of Stevie, check this out.I'll give you one guess at who's in the number 1 spot! I love the Paul Simon one, too...oh hell who am I kidding, I love them all!
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Check out this interesting article about what happened to Punk in Britain - the Oi! movement. http://blacksungazette.com/?p=1048 Some of these bands are great, but (with the exception of Sham 69 and the Cockney Rejects) their politics are a bit much for most. There is a pretty much direct line, after all, from most of these bands to the Skinhead movement that came after. Which is a shame, beca...
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Check this out It'd be funny if it wasn't just so deliciously DESERVED! Ha! Now the shoe is on the other foot! Take THAT!....and etc....Although I kind of have a funny feeling that things will work out without any suits having to switch to stripes.But, goodness, wouldn't it be lovely if the labels had to pay through the nose for this? Or if they had to, you know - go to jail, which is what t...
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When my brother's and I were old enough to be deeply in lust with music, my mom thought up the worst punishment ever. We did something, all of us, that really pissed her off (don't remember what it was) and she got beet-red, extremely angry, and when we laughed at her as we often did, she went off and did something simply EVIL. She took ALL our record albums and locked them in a cabinet and h...
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My grandfather (my mother's father) was a large man in many ways. He was physically tall, true (he played basketball in college) but what I most remember were his huge hands and his booming voice. He was hugely respected, too, because he was a judge. Even when he retired he counseled other judges. He could put the fear of god into you just entering a room, and my mom used to tell us that h...
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