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The Beatles

Memory-Making Music

April 8, 2009

When I say “album,” some young people look as if I’ve uttered a foreign word. Thus this headline touting the top 25 theme or concept albums caught my eye.

Cohesiveness in these works is lost in today’s random-shuffle world. My favorite (not that I’ve heard them all) is Sufjan StevensIllinoise. His “John Wayne Gacey, Jr.” makes me want to weep.

And surely someone has compiled another list of albums, albums forever linked to an experience, enshrining them in memory’s Hall of Fame. Read More

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Epiphanies of Yesterday’s News

November 19, 2008

Some days some things jump out at me. This morning it was signs. I was traveling a familiar route, and three signs looked new to the urban landscape.
“Keep Portland Weird!” cried out from the west side of Music Millenium, the only place I buy CDs in person. I knew the store on East Burnside Street [...]

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Still hacked off: Beatles mop-top butchery

June 12, 2008

A photograph would convey more than words, but I don’t have one of a barista at Peet’s Coffee at Northeast Broadway and 15th. You can’t miss him: the young guy with a modified mohawk, traditionally cut on top but with checkerboard-patterned sides and back. By Portland standards, the haircut barely rates a second glance. But [...]

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