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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: No-Man's-Land of Aging
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Today, I bought a newspaper from the paper guy in the subway (BART here in the SF Bay Area). "How's it going? I asked as I handed over my paper and a dollar. Can't complain. My old bones still strong," he stated firmly. I replied instinctively wanting to form some sort of fleeting community with this strong older man. Yeah, we done seen it all and come out unscathed and unburdened," he offered. Yessir, that's true," I confirmed.
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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: Faith Music: The Substance of Songs Hoped For
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Friday, January 13, 2012. Faith Music: The Substance of Songs Hoped For. I was asked by a magazine to create a CD mix informed by the theme of "Religion" and to write about the mix. The Substance of Songs Hoped For. And that’s why I’m an atheist. Because of the goddamn music. Bluegrass gospel evokes an ecstasy, too, but unlike African-American gospel, bluegrass compels me to sit perfectly still, shivering. January 26, 2012 at 7:49 AM. Meat Tree and P...
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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: Rock n' Roll in the Dough
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Rock n' Roll in the Dough. The essays of the great rock critic Ellen Willis are available in a new collection entitled Out of the Vinyl Deeps. Here's a particularly insightful assessment, written from the fabled Woodstock concert, of rock as a commodity and not a revolution:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cruella de Ville Doesn't Read Fairy Tales. Gaby Kerpel Video "Toritos". Rock, Paper, DEATH . . . Dies! Okay, so th...
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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: Does the Earth Notice Us?
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Sunday, April 15, 2012. Does the Earth Notice Us? We’re so special. Relative to other organisms, we are. Special. Yet the earth, as an ecosystem, doesn’t even begin to privilege us over everything else. We are not “remarkable” to the earth because the earth does not remark. The earth has no consciousness like a whale swimming next to our boat, seemingly curious about us. We may believe there’s a god. God or no, the earth will not die. Cruella de Vill...
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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: Cruella de Ville Doesn't Read Fairy Tales
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Friday, November 12, 2010. Cruella de Ville Doesn't Read Fairy Tales. I'm always amazed at how well people know fairy tales because I have no memory of anyone ever reading them to me. Maybe my folks did, at least my mom, but I don't remember it and I don’t see that being part of my. Mom’s maternal repetoire. Too much ghastliness for her tastes and I’m damn sure her. Mother never read them to the little girl who became my mom. So she read me the story...
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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: Liberal Racism vs. Conservative Racism:
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Saturday, November 3, 2012. Liberal Racism vs. Conservative Racism:. White conservatives, the political ancestors of whom defended cultural racism and 400 years of institutionalized racism with slavery and Jim Crow and segregation, become apoplectic when it anyone even hints at the possibility of racism coursing through their healthy bodies politic. No inoculation needed! Their insistence of complete racial innocence is inoculation enough! Meat Tree ...
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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: Rock, Paper, DEATH . . . Dies!!!
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Saturday, June 5, 2010. Rock, Paper, DEATH . . . Dies! Meat Tree and Pelt Swan, founders of the heavy metal covers supergroup Rock, Paper, DEATH. The group had been slowly falling apart: Founder Jack Tyranny left a year ago to pursue his dream . . . “scream metal.”. 8221; encampment, Cold Blood unleashed a string of profanities against “U.S. metal hegemony,” not one word of which can be printed in this family blog. 8220; Rock Paper Death. However, &#...
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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: Hawk and the Commodities at Fundraiser for Bay Area GSAs
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Hawk and the Commodities at Fundraiser for Bay Area GSAs. Tomas Jacquez, Spanish teacher and Aim High Director at Urban, put together a band with Sophie Lieberman on keyboards, Lily Burns on bass, Abby Diamond singing, Tomas on guitar. I sat in on drums for Jasper Sheff who had another gig. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cruella de Ville Doesn't Read Fairy Tales. Gaby Kerpel Video "Toritos". Literally Overused Words and...
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The Eclectic -- Greg Monfils: Faith
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The Eclectic - Greg Monfils. Follow The Eclectic Greg. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Wonderful high school kids conducted a forum about faith during lunch for three days. Here's my reaction to what I heard:. I'm told that "it's a miracle when I wake up every day." But that's absolutely NOT a miracle. It's to be expected. It's rational and natural. Even for me at 56. Faith is reserved for what we cannot rationally expect. Faith should never be conflated with religion. But we do need to congregate with li...
