Two business models
Two business models for selling CDs on Venice Beach: Hand a CD to a passing individual tourist in a way...
Archive for Music
Pete Seeger on helping
Pete Seeger died three years ago yesterday, so my post about him came up in my Facebook history today. It...
Hamilton night!
I'M GOING TO SEE HAMILTON TONIGHT! I arranged a fair bit of my plans for the past few months around...
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...