Category Archives: Music

My comments on my favorite music.

The Deafening Noise and Transient Joys of Las Vegas

Posted on January 10, 2012 by sethink

Many people take a side trip from Las Vegas to visit the Grand Canyon. So I can’t be the first to comment on the jarring juxtaposition of ephemeral, glitzy, often tacky and ever-changing Vegas with a desertous, majestic, inhumane canyon carved from … Continue reading →

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My Own Tiny Office Concert

Posted on December 27, 2011 by sethink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyidesIDu_4

I invited staff from administrative and tech services departments – and the Harrisonville Branch staff – into my office for a little live holiday music.

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Tau’olunga faka’ofo’ofa

Posted on December 7, 2011 by sethink

I recorded this clip 5 years ago today:

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Watching The Tree of Life

Posted on November 1, 2011 by sethink

Terrence Malick’s new film, The Tree of Life, came out on DVD last week. I watched it late on Saturday night thinking I would watch maybe half an hour of it before bed, and watch the rest the next day. Instead … Continue reading →

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The Patriotism of Dylan

Posted on October 20, 2011 by sethink

Sean Wilentz’s new book, Bob Dylan in America, includes this passage describing Dylan’s 1966 performance in Paris at which he draped a U.S flag on the stage for the second half of the concert eliciting “U.S. go home!” jeers from the French … Continue reading →

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Competing Quotes for the Day: Sam Harris contra the Avett Brothers on holding our children

Posted on October 10, 2011 by sethink

Take an experience like carrying your child. You pick your child up hundreds of times a day, it seems. At a certain time, your child is going to get too heavy to pick up. At a certain point you will … Continue reading →

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Bring me little water, Sylvie

Posted on October 2, 2011 by sethink

Sylvie Inez was named after her great-grandmothers, Sylva Combs and Inez Hauck. But her other namesake is Leadbelly: Bonus: here are some fine cover versions. The Wailin’ Jennys Harry Belafonte And my favorite: Sweet Honey in the Rock

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A Eulogy for Borders

Posted on August 20, 2011 by sethink

When I heard the news that Borders bookstore is going out of business, the first thing that I thought of is Kanye West’s song “All of the Lights.” A new footnote is required for future generations. Public visitation/ We met … Continue reading →

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A Song for Sunday: “The Once and Future Carpenter”

Posted on August 7, 2011 by sethink

Did I mention that the music of the Avett Brothers tends to have strong Stoic themes? They have a new song they recently performed on a CMT Unplugged session. Money quote: If I live the life I’m given, I won’t … Continue reading →

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“Tell me, who’s in the house?”

Posted on July 26, 2011 by sethink

“If you’re wondering what teenager in her right mind would listen to a forty-year-old Vegas showman with a Jersey accent rap about Jesus, the answer is: me.” – Meghan O’Gieblyn on the Christian singer/evangelist, Carman, in “Sniffing Glue” a Guernica essay about … Continue reading →

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