Frankly, Scarlet I Don’t Think He Gives a Damn… The most disturbing thing about the disaster in New Orleans after the reality, is its translatability. Suddenly we are all one with the dispossessed of Fallujah, the drowning in Baghdad, and the homeless in Afghanistan. While we can fragment our own national distress, isolate the looters […]
Category Archives: Politics
Mar
08
2004
When In Doubt Sing It Out
I’m convinced that music can heal the world. More than simply easing the tribulations and suffering of humans. Music is among the oldest of human activities. It predates warfare by so long that it’s almost funny. Before language, before written words, before private property and totalitarian agriculture our ancestors’ ancestors’ were driven by a desire […]