I was at the bar at Kelly’s Olympian in downtown Portland for three pints of Irish stout before I realized the leftist fundraiser in the next room was already in progress. Unaware of the live show annex next door, I had thought they were going to set up somewhere in the back of the bar.Continue reading “Punk and Politics”
Tag Archives: music
Tomoki Martens plays the violin across from the downtown library in Portland Oregon.
Kate McKinnon should have chosen this song for that SNL opener:
Bill Monroe, Mule Skinner Blues
Randy Newman, Baltimore
Bill Keith, 1939 – 2015
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, Bluegrass Breakdown
The Banned
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Band Dixie, Bob Dylan I’m Thinking Tonight of the Old Folks, The Monroe Brothers
Ephemera
Chris White Chris White. His name was Chris White. The name returned to me “out of the blue” as they say–in fact it I was gazing on a gnarled grey sky, up to which ghostly ringlets of steam escaping my shower ascended like released souls returning to a primordial mass. The name only occurred toContinue reading “Ephemera”
Odd Nosdam, Fat Hooks
Christmas Lullaby, Arvo Part Estonian Lullaby, Arvo Part
untethered 