Music
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Renegades of Funk (Monday Mixtape)
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4 min read
Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies They change the course of history Everyday people like you and me We’re the renegades we’re the people With our own philosophies We change the course of history Everyday people like you and me As I said in my homily yesterday, the stuff that got Jesus…
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Mixtape Monday: the slow build
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1 min read
One of my favorite parts about music is the slow build. What I mean by this is the song that starts simple, soft, and slow. And it gets you listening to it’s quiet and before you know it you are raptly focused on the words, listening for something. You don’t know what. And then it…
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Monday Mixtape: the love song
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1 min read
Who among us hasn’t made a mixtape for someone they loved? Or at least were in love with at one point. It should come to nobody’s surprise that I’ve made a bunch of such mixtapes in my time and given them to…well, several…people. But, and this may sound cheesy, there is something about the mixtape for…
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Mixtape Monday: meaningful song
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1 min read
Personally, I like my music to mean something. And If I’m putting together a soundtrack, it has to include at least something seriously cool and pertinent to our lives at the time. So here it goes: Billy Bragg & Wilco covering Woody Guthrie’s “Christ for President”
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Mixtape Mondays: begin at the end
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2 min read
In which I pick a song to go on a never-ending mixtape. We know the rules for the mixtape are pretty solid. You start with the best track. Seriously rocking number. Then you dial it back for the second track, then shift hard into track number three. You really only get three tracks to hook…