I understand that Bush and Obama and their CIA teams were working under extraordinary and in some ways unprecedented pressures when they committed war crimes. A case can be made that they should receive pardons after their convictions for those crimes, and I’d be more than willing to listen to it — but first, the convictions.
Fonvielle’s ‘Six Western Love Stories’
. . . isn’t a romance novel. No moon in June, pie in the sky, lovey dovey BS. The love in these short stories is sometimes given and sometimes taken, It’s hard and it’s rough, born of necessity, lust and greed. There are turns of tenderness though but that tenderness seemingly comes with time and life lived. Descriptive and colorful, I found myself living through these stories, being in them for the moments they took me to read. That’s the best I can say about these stories. They draw you in and make you partake. The only disappointment is when they’re over.
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Rock albums don’t get much better than Blue by Joni Mitchell — from a time when artists regularly put out LPs on which every track was a classic. (When did that stop seeming like a good idea?)
The modern pressing I’m listening to now, on 180-gram vinyl from Rhino, is clear and bright but the sound is slightly brittle –without the depth and roundness of the original. Someday Mobile Fidelity will put out an edition and that will be the one to have (unless you’ve got a nice clean copy of the first pressing.) Until then, this will do very well.
. . . for the other (and better though shorter) Christmas album by Los Straitjackets. This one goes especially well with a cup of egg nog.
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This three-LP set gathers together all the Beatles singles that didn’t appear on their British albums. It’s an astonishing collection of songs and sounds astonishing in mono on vinyl — six sides of exhilarating magic.
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With thanks to Amy Crehore . . .
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. . . then I guess it’s o. k.
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. . . for this merry album of rocking Christmas instrumentals. Pressed on heavyweight virgin peppermint candy.
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