January 2010
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They Sure Looked Like Doves To Me →
The stories surrounding the passing of Vic Chesnutt are getting more complicated and the tragedy keeps compounding as more details, which I will not go into here so don’t ask, are…
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December 2009
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Cordy Lon, Please
milliansinc: I have been trying for some 20 years to find Cordy Lon’s demo tape—they were a sometimes quartet from Athens, GA, early ’90s, and they played some cool music. Think moody cello meets folk angst. Gang of Four meets Nick Drake. On a codeine bender. In Elliott Smith’s basement. Good stuff. Anywho, they put out a cassette tape (maybe 200 copies?) and mine was stolen in 1993 by someone...
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The Mist And The March Of Time →
Do you remember what Christmas was like when you were a child? Your intangible excitement and its steady restlessness? At some point for me this gave way to cynicism and, many years later,…
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Yes, Dear, But Is It Art? →
It’s all manipulation of desire no matter the motivation or result. What is the morality of manipulation?
Dec 22nd
Sometimes I write songs, too.  →
…but this is the only Christmas song I’ve ever written.
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Listomania
I don’t have any end-of-year or end-of-decade lists because… 1) I can barely make a grocery shopping list and, even when I do, I wind up ignoring things on it and/or buying things I hadn’t planned on. 2) The number of records that have a profound enough influence on me in any given year to warrant inclusion on a list generally numbers fewer than 5. 3) I generally like to see a...
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I Hear You Through The Wire →
Every day I remember and remain.
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If Love Is Sweet, Then I Am Torn By Every Move You... →
I don’t want to talk about it.
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Athens Christmas Parade Tonight →
Bar none, the Athens Christmas Parade is my favorite civic event of the year. What I wrote last year regarding the parade says it the best so I’m going to quote myself: Today is…
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YES, I'M GOING TO THE SHOW.
c u at it.
Dec 3rd
I glimpsed you once but you were gone again… →
It might have been the music from next door Reminded me I should have missed you more. -The Lucksmiths ”Music Next Door” Tonight I read your letters again for the first time….
Dec 2nd
“Modern man is powerless and insignificant in the modern world.”
– Arthur Miller
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