- Woke up with that ▲ my head. Is true.
- Just realized that tomorrow is one of two Highest Egoslavian Holy Days, so here, I wasn't going to post today, but have links I was collecting before they go completely stale.
- Will update with links through tomorrow, how many, I don't know....
- UPDATE! Please consider sending Arthur some coin.
- Remember when I wrote about Kedi last week, what if the cat lover was an asshole? Meet Trump's chief sponsoring oligarch, Robert Mercer, of who it is allegedly said he once told a colleague that he preferred the company of cats to humans.
- Reminder until the Clintons fuck off to the sea: Fuck the Clintons, fuck the Democrats.
- Strawmanning Sanders.
- Trump is now breaking his promises.
UPDATE!
- The basic psychology of society does not work.
- The ruling class trembled.
- Maggie's weekly links.
- { feuilleton }'s weekly links.
- I'm a Voodoo Child.
- UPDATE! He's only reading old books.
- Kemp Mill Records. Sniff. That and Sights and Sounds.
- The challenge of interviewing Robert Fripp.
- Bonus Cockburn ▼
although these bruce cockburn songs you've selected here are among his best, i also really like
ReplyDelete"lovers in a dangerous time" and
"wondering where the lions are"
while it's not the sort of song i like to listen to over and over, "you've never seen everything" expresses the wonder of how crazy and cruel people can be sometimes
here's part of an interview from 2012:
Years ago, Cockburn received a "kind of hurt-sounding letter" from a young woman who was offended by his reference to canine fecal matter in one of his songs. "She wondered how I could call myself a Christian and say 'dog s---'." Cockburn is laughing as he tells the story. "What? You don't think Jesus ever cussed? Jesus may have been the Son of God, but he was flesh and blood and he lived life the way we do. It just seemed absurd to have your salvation tied up with what kind of language you use, or whether or not you drink booze or occasionally have sex or whatever it is that people get all worked up about."
Cockburn says when he first became a Christian in the early 1970s, "it was unfamiliar territory. I listened a lot to people who claimed to know a lot about it—the people on TV and the fundamentalist types who were quick to tell you they know all the answers. After a while, it was very clear that they were deluding themselves. At least I wasn't cut out to have that kind of approach to things.
"To me, everything in life is a process. There is no stopping point; you never land. If you think you've landed somewhere, watch out, because God or whoever is gonna pull the rug out from under you, and you are going to have to start thinking again, trying to understand how you fit into things."
Cockburn says he doesn't care whether people believe he's a Christian or not.
"What's important is recognition that there is a spiritual side of life, and that needs to be paid attention to," he says. "There's a real distinction between materialism and a sense of the cosmos being a deeper place than that. If it's a deeper place, then what does that ask from us? I don't know the answer. I'm still working on it, and that is perhaps why people are willing to listen to the stuff I put into songs."
http://www.brucecockburn.org/media/media-2012.html