War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Upper reaches of the word ‘warm‘ this late-afternoon/early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — short of 6 PM right now and even with a slight breeze it’s reportedly 98-degrees outside. Shit-on-a-barbeque-stick. I was out back earlier taking a B&M (Wine-Wood Tip) break and the air was pushing a hot-summer breeze. After some doomscrolling the…
In lieu of dismal words this Friday morning on the eve of a holiday, another post in our ‘Destination‘ series of music and non-hand-wringing (last one here and if you want, follow the series backward from there) and in a spirit of maybe there’s a way out of this shitstorm we’ve found ourselves. Music does…
As if to soften the deafening shitstorm/clusterfuck of current life, another in our continuing series ‘Destination‘ (last one here) with some more acoustic-like music to soothe away the myriad troubles and woe — romance of real reality in current circumstances means a great deal. This serial has been way-mostly songs from what’s become my most-favorite…
Counterpunch to the gosh-awful, bullshit news currently infecting our airwaves, another episode this Saturday of my musical ‘Destination‘ series (last one here), where unusual tunes of personal value create a seemingly alternative auditory diagram to the screaming-loud noises coming off life in 2021 A.D. Eleven years ago at about the turn of the decade, I…
Once again another chapter in this generally-musical set of posts — last one here — and this trip it’s tunes in the moon-dream-waxing philosophical-and-maybe-some-optimistic homilies thrown into a mix-tape genre featured on a warm Sunday afternoon — a peak time for melodious musings, wouldn’t you say? Anyway, beat’s the shit out of the alternative. And…
Another chapter in the ‘Destination‘ series (last one here), and a look backwards to reflect in some small way what we’re experiencing today. Our current era is more-weirder than yesterday’s, though, sadly there’s still the same history clinging on for dear life. And the musical light in the dark is once again The Running Mates,…
Midst of crazy there’s always music. During the news surfing this afternoon, looking for whatever, I spied another song from The Running Mates I hadn’t seen before — I don’t know their whole catalog for shit’s sake. I’ve become way-appreciative of the amazing husband/wife duo the last few weeks as their covers of some great…
As we cruise through these crazed and perlious times, music helps us cope. And sometimes certain songs more than others show the way to the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. In a sense, a kind of anthem for a time. In the last few years I sort of gyrated betweena tunes set…
Despite the deadly lure of doomscrolling even on this holiday Thursday in California’s Central Valley, I’m thinking rudimentary musical thoughts of the imagination — sunshine right now in late afternoon, a welcome respite and clears perceptions of gloom after nearly three full days of Tule fog, our area’s seasonal shitsville-weather period, a depressing gray stretch…
