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Rest in Peace, Brian Wilson

Posted on June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 by tundranaut

Rest in peace, Brian Wilson. Here’s Ted Gioia describing Wilson in a post called “My 12 Favorite Existential Songs.” Brian Wilson: “Caroline, No” Here’s another angst-ridden “how did I get here” kind of song. Brian Wilson lived in a persistent state of existential crisis when he composed “Caroline, No.” He was the young Kierkegaard of…

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w҇e҇e҇k҇e҇n҇d҇ ҇l҇i҇n҇k҇s҇: the violence of heaven, history’s new surprises, the chthonic swamp

Posted on October 5, 2023October 7, 2023 by tundranaut

Jupiter Rising: “It is not that the public is in some deep slumber or guided hypnosis, but that they are so deeply humiliated and abused that they don’t even know who they are anymore. Many Americans don’t even know their own fathers, let alone contemplate or internalize the triumphs of their ancestors.” The Cionci Thesis:…

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Pandemic Inventory

Posted on May 8, 2020May 9, 2020 by tundranaut

Seems like a lot of people are taking inventory of their pandemic experiences, so I will too.  (As someone on Twitter recently joked, citing Garrison Keillor: Nothing happened to me, and now I’m going to tell you about it.) Like millions of others, I spend a lot of time alone these days. Don’t my lonely…

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Perpendicular to Eternity

Posted on April 23, 2020April 24, 2020 by tundranaut

“Now is perpendicular to eternity” — Ken Nordine — тцпдяапацт (@tundranaut) February 9, 2015 This is what they whispered to me in the quiet desert air…

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Hiding Songs

Posted on March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 by tundranaut

Nick Cave on Leonard Cohen and “hiding songs”: …not only are these songs sacred, they are ‘hiding songs’ that deal exclusively in darkness, obfuscation, concealment and secrecy…the purpose of these songs was to shut off the sun, to draw a long shadow down and protect…from the corrosive glare of the world.

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Threshold Songs Trapped in Time

Posted on September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 by tundranaut

what’s the adjective for decade? Decadal? Because I would like to note the decadal ambiguity of the Alan Parsons Project. Are their songs from the 70s? Or the 80s? You can never really tell, they have elements of both decades. https://t.co/oqUvahketu — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) September 17,…

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Audio and Visual Ephemera

Posted on February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 by tundranaut

  View this post on Instagram   Goofing with a free film app. Music by pal Brett A post shared by MC (@tundra__michael) on Jan 4, 2019 at 8:42am PST   View this post on Instagram   cityscape jazz fun. Drums by Brett Van Donsel A post shared by MC (@tundra__michael) on Jan 11, 2019…

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