Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
Another attempted swipe against reality this Sunday afternoon with a serenade of some sort of sound — today it’s music in a reflection of our conundrum made up nowadays that’s really not a mystery nor an enigma, but obvious and dangerous and frightening. Yet also includes a sensual aspect, easing the voyage. However, before we…
Paul McCartney uncovered some photos he’d taken long, long ago: Although this bit of news might be old hat already (it was first revealed in January this year), McCartney’s photographs will be on display at London’s National Portrait Gallery starting at the end of this month. Reportedly, he took the pictures between December 1963 and…
Multi-whammy news day as politics got sadly tapped to the back burner by the death of a musical icon — all over the InterWebs cycle: Tina Turner passes at 83. She carried some talented weight for a long, long time on a number of brilliant levels. I’ve been infatuated with her since the early 1970s…
And some songs, too, celebrating all kinds of shit that occurs during those deep-trench days of summer — here in California’s Central Valley, backs of necks get way-way-worse than dirty and gritty. Yesterday the first time this season/year I went with just a t-shirt instead of a hoodie/sweatshirt while walking Leroy — a most definite…
Of course, due to the hardcore musical fact Led Zeppelin’s 1971 “Stairway To Heaven” is so known, so overwhelmingly continuously common, the riff of all time can’t be played without a music-store employee going “a little funny in the head” without the proper drugs to soothe the earworms. The song has withstood the test of…
A quiet early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — once again a seemingly early-spring feel to the day with sunshine and warm temperatures. Beyond another ‘object’ being shot down over the Great Lakes today, most of the news cycle has been a bit muted. The’UFO’ will keep the masses enthralled for a space of…
In honor of MLK Day tomorrow, some music in reflection. (Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Self Portrait Facing Death‘ [June 30, 1972], was originally found here.) I’m not familiar at all with MLK and music so we’ll go with UDiscover Music from last year: On April 4, 1968, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, who was shot…
My own personal sounds of the times to be more exact. In keeping with the sad passing this past week of Christine McVie, I thought to side-swipe the ugly news cycle nowadays this early-evening Sunday and ping back 44-45 years to the mid-1970s, a time seemingly more innocent (though, it way-wasn’t) with some of the…
(Image found here.) Adding insult to injury flexing off anxiety, sadness, and worry boiling around our current everything affairs, it an asshole shock to hear this afternoon the passing of the wondrous Christine McVie, the passionate voice of a generation generated by the harmonies of Fleetwood Mac. She was 79 — five years older than…
Cloudy this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — a preview of winter. And a change of pace with some music to serenade the anxiety building to Tuesday as so much shit from democracy to the actual, physical environs of our living spaces is on the line in the election. Shitty to have to…
