The first impression that comes to me is heat. Heat and the sound of a Diesel engine. This was the soundtrack of a late summer, a summer in the cusp of the 90s, an era I spent quite a bit of time driving around in a ’81 Diesel VW Rabbit. That particular model of automobile […]

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Perhaps it is a truism, but people tend to forget: children remember things. They also understand more than you expect. Perhaps their understanding has gaps or naivetes, but the basics are usually there. I say this because of my memory of one of my favorite songs from the early 1980s. I was all of eight […]

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The word that comes to mind when I think of my first reaction to this song is: unearthly. Why? I’m not sure. I was in fifth grade. On first thought one could say, What would a fifth-grader know about unearthly? But it’s not like nine-year-olds never hear music. By that age I’d had a long […]

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So a new concept here is something I’m calling “snapsongs”, in which I do a quick sketch of the scene a particular song evokes in my head when I hear it. These songs may not be my favorite, or even ones I like terribly much, but for some reason they evoke a specific time, place […]

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So the original experiment didn’t exactly work, but two years later I’m back to see what happens. I’ll try smaller bits of writing, musings and scenes and whatnot, to see if I can get back in the swing.

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