Apropos of Nothing

...random thoughts on music, film, television, sports, or whatever else pops into my head at any given moment.

Sunday, July 17, 2022

The Duke

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It's been a long time since I've gone down the Duke Ellington rabbit hole.  Last week, what sent me down was a tweet (a retweet, act...
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Monday, January 31, 2022

"Maus" and Why It Matters

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  The first political science course I took in college (at American River College, here in the Sacramento area) was taught by a gentleman wh...
Sunday, January 09, 2022

Notable Albums of 2021 (Memorializing)

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 Not a bad year at all. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Hom...

Songs of the Year, 2021: A Little Soon To Say, Jackson Browne

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Jackson Browne earned his spot in the Hall of Fame a long time ago, so it's OK that his late-career albums fall short of the standards h...
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Songs of the Year, 2021: Hard Drive, Cassandra Jenkins

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There is a LOT going on in "Hard Drive."  It's got a definite Laurie Anderson feel to it, almost as if it were a lost track fr...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Songs of the Year, 2021: Calling Me Home, Rhiannon Giddens + Francesco Turrisi

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The music that Rhiannon Giddens has made on her last two albums with Francesco Turrisi cuts like a scythe, slashing through fields of grain....
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Songs of the Year, 2021: Tom Jones - I'm Growing Old

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Over the next few days, in preparation for posting my Top Ten Albums of 2021, I'll be posting some of my favorite songs of the year from...
Monday, December 27, 2021

...Ring in the New

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And that bad boy in the middle now holds the place of honor previously occupied by the Technics Receiver. So yeah, I no longer have the abil...

Ring Out the Old...

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  This bad boy served me well for close to 40 years, but it was well past the time to say farewell.  Little did I know that the frustrating ...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Memorializing

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 2020 was the year that I made the transition from buying CDs (I've bought two this year) to listening to music almost exclusively via s...
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Saturday, February 13, 2021

Top Ten Albums of 2020

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1. Fleet Foxes - Shore .   Over the years I've toyed around with the concept of what I call "Autumn Albums."  Not necessarily ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

NFL Memories and "The Football Book"

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 A few years ago, one of my Christmas "stocking stuffers" was a coffee table book on the history of the NFL.  Cleverly titled ...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Albums of the Year: Finalists

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With the help of Spotify, there's no question that I listened to more new music this year than ever before.  On the one hand, that's...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Summer 2020 Album Diary: "Either/Or," Elliott Smith (1997)

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"Either/Or" is enjoyable enough as music, but it's impossible to separate the album from the circumstances of the artist who...
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Monday, July 06, 2020

Summer 2020 Album Diary: "The Belle Album," Al Green (1977)

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When Greil Marcus reviewed The Belle Album for Rolling Stone in late 1977, he wrote "...we may someday look back on The Belle Album...
Sunday, July 05, 2020

Summer of 2020 Album Diary: Pacific Ocean Blue, Dennis Wilson (1977)

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The point of this project is to write, at least a little bit, about a notable album from the past that I've never listened to all the ...
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