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https://youtu.be/45ClunS8D2g I'd never been to San Miguel de Allende before a couple months ago. Like Ajijic, it's famous as a gringo hub, so I've never been interested in it. But it was better than I thought it would be. The gringos aren't every...
Until yesterday, I didn't know what "praise and worship music" meant. Most "praise and worship" music grates on my ears, and I never listen to it. I usually see (or hear) it as bad art, and not truly capable of praising or worshiping anything. It'...
One of the greatest flaws in rap lyrics is the over-reliance on rhyme for its own sake. It's a remedial, beginner's device, and no one who has ever written more than 2 songs is entirely unguilty of it. There's an inherent writer's thrill at discove...
When discussing the lack of interesting and/or talented independent musicians today, there are two names I never mention: Lana Del Rey and Jack White. I actually like Lana Del Rey, but I never mention her because she's an obvious, self-professed in...
I can't listen to The Handsome Family anymore. I was a big Handsome Family fan from the late 90's through about 2009. We shared a back page in the Illinois Entertainer, in which my band had received a 25-word write-up; they had an ad for a show or...
I have been known to compare Anthony Fauci to Josef Mengele, but I think there's more to it than that. Thanks to the video posted below, in addition to Mengele I now also liken Fauci to Jim Jones, who forced his followers to commit mass suicide by d...
I finally made it through the film Chicuarotes, which features this great version of "I Fought The Law:" I can't tell if singing it in Nāhuatlahtolli is an attempt at "decolonization," which is the kind of thing you'd expect from people today, or si...
A funeral blocked me from leaving a cemetery the other day. I heard nearby mariachi music while I was walking between the graves, and after awhile thought it might be cool to find out where the music was coming from. The search was not difficult. ...
I feel like I do when a beloved celebrity dies. While looking for images to use as a thumbnail for this article, I did an image search for "We Are The World," and was horrified to learn that they remade the song sometime in the last decade or 2 for...
In September 2014, students from a small, socialist farming school in the state of Guerrero were traveling in a caravan of 5 buses to Iguala, Mexico. When they arrived in town, they were followed by police. The police stopped them, blocked them in,...
