Hamilton night!
I'M GOING TO SEE HAMILTON TONIGHT! I arranged a fair bit of my plans for the past few months around...
Archive for Music
Revising a song: “Here I Am, Lord”
I'm not a Christian, but I really like some Christian songs. There's one such song that I quite like most...
Long Black Veil
Every time I hear the song “Long Black Veil,” I wonder the same thing: Is that outcome really preferable to...
Ordinary miracles: hymns for agnostics
The other day on Facebook, Kat said something about hymns for atheists, which reminded me of a playlist I put...
My review of Hamilton
A friend asked this morning what the deal is with this Hamilton thing. Here's what I posted in response: It's...
David and Goliath rhymes
I just realized this is one of the things that some of the rhyme-chains in Hamilton reminded me of: ”Now...
Hamilton cast album!
Back in May, I posted about Hamilton, the new hip-hop Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ever since...
Somebody Will, again
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
Deportees
Back in January 2014, I attended folksinger John McCutcheon's annual Santa Cruz concert, a benefit (as always) for the Resource...
Hamilton rap becomes a musical
In 2009, composer/lyricist/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda performed an amazing hip-hop piece about Alexander Hamilton (5-min video, with mostly-accurate captions) at the...
My emotional state
A couple weeks ago, I sat down to write a blog entry about how I was doing with regard to...
The Lonely Goatherd and the Bechdel test
I wrote this the other day for a discussion of (among other things) works that do and don't pass the...