Archive for September 25, 2007
In Between Days
“I’m a rock star. I’m not supposed to do dishes!” These are strange, strenuous, and superlative days. One minute finds me coordinating a roomful of musicians, the next. I’m marvelling at the stupendous dicing abilities of a new pairing knife. ‘Man, that’s the best knife ever!’ I think. One minute finds me tossing back pints…
Read MoreIt’s Christmas Time (There’s No Need To Be Afraid)
Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” was the right song at the right time. I was a newly-minted teenager when Bob Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge Ure rounded up Paul Young, Phil Collins, Sting, Bono et all to record the first-and-definitive benefit single on behalf of African famine relief. MTV was a nascent entity then…
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