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Rather liking him at the moment, he's the Bob Dylan for the End of the World. Well, maybe not end, a little too early to say, but he's got his finger on the pulse for sure...
Try these 2 by him:
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This has been stuck in my head for a couple of weeks....It started, a reddit thread about a song that's used in every movie about Vietnam. For good reason, it's of the era and it plainly states the politics of war. And the beat kicks to the rhythm of the chopper blades....
So I looked it up, gave it a relisten, it lead into some good playlists. Fine. And then the daughter sends me a video of her going upriver on a boat in Laos, and the song came back....
Damn, I don't usually like to listen to 'oldies', but there's no getting it out of my head now. No less because "Apocalypse Now" was a great anti-war movie....
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At the Poetry Slam Wednesday night, the standard mixed bag. A few of note, one young poet reciting the laws of Hermes Trismegistos, curious, he's disappointing, "Secret Knowledge" isn't so secret if you're giving it all away during a slam.
Various other artists, various degrees of skills, judging all over the map and par for every other slam I've been to.
I try and escape at half time, but another artist takes the stage, older fellow, with guitar, he begins strumming and I'm immediately taken by it: The song, "Walk Like A Sasquatch", by local sculptor/artist Cameron Douglas.
And I so want to share it with you, the perfect blend of humor, irony, self-awareness, funny as hell and it got the crowd cheering, but - search as I may I can find only mention of it on the web, no performances. Which is a shame, this song, performance, it deserves a much wider audience.
Strange to think that even in this day and age some things must be experienced, and have no online corollary or presence to be shared.
Maybe that's his point? Or maybe search again and it will turn up in the future.
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Sunday, last night, finally forced myself to go out and do something.
I've been on the downlow, "Working" at getting bloody nothing done and doing a fine bloody job of it too, but all this do-nothing has seen me miss a few worthwhile events that I later regretted, and so I finally hauled my ass up to the church to check it out.
3 local artists, independent female singer/songwriters, a small audience of perhaps 70 people on the pews, the stage/altar they've done up to look like every folk musicians retro ideal, with old 50's, 60's & 70's style table lamps, a sheepskin rug, acoustic guitars...
And they were surprisingly good. Or, perhaps to better phrase it, not surprisingly, because this town has a superfluity of talent, and it made me realize that I have to make more of an effort to get out...