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#782: L is for lang, k.d.

I found myself in the middle of an MFA creative writing programlistening obsessively to k.d. lang, in particular these three albums, Ingénue, All You Can Eat, and Drag. Even though the first of these threewas released a couple of years earlier, I discovered her in 1995. How I came across this music, I do notContinue reading “#782: L is for lang, k.d.”

Only A Bad Dream: Record Store Paradise Lost

I had a nightmare last night that Music Millennium, the oldest independent record store in Portland, closed its doors, and I wandered around the store weeping while the employees packed everything into boxes. It was a terrible, suffocating dream, vivid, emotionally as real as they come. You know the kind, one of those night timeContinue reading “Only A Bad Dream: Record Store Paradise Lost”