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The Surgeon
I have to go back in – there’s no way around it. I don’t know how it happened but I missed something. I had that poor woman cut open on the table for more than three hours. I checked everything. But tests don’t lie. She’s still bleeding inside.There aren’t a lot of people whose judgment Read more
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The Poet
What I’m trying to do is impossibleIs that the right way to start?You tell me.What I’m trying to do is find words that don’t exist for feelings that do God knows there are enough wordsMillions of themThey’re everywhere – like gnats Because none of them are quite right, I combine a bunch of them,scrape Read more
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Demo: Within You and Without You
I was noodling around on guitar the other day and stumbled onto this melody. The Irish songs I’ve been working on rely more on notes than chords and this song does the same thing from a land 5,000 miles east of Ireland.George Harrison’s Within You And Without You kicks of side two of The Beatles’ Read more
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Fictional Humans of NY – The Actor
In the first place, the actor looks nothing like me. But even if he did, I’m just not buying the performance. I don’t really act like that, do I? If I did, who would have anything to do with me? Maybe he’s doing some kind of subtle method acting that’s going over my head.Maybe he’s Read more
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Last Licks
There’s no way around it – 2016 is a shitty year for music fans. So far we’ve lost Prince, Merle Haggard, David Bowie, Keith Emerson, Glenn Frey, Paul Kantner, and Maurice White. And it’s not even May yet. It got me thinking about the final recordings that artists make and what it says about the Read more
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Review: You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine
I’ll start my review of Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine with the highest praise I can think of for any book: the storytelling reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s. The same horror at conformity and conventional wisdom screams from every page, in a sweet and thoughtful way. And there are Read more
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