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We’ll find out in this Eagles shootout review: 2 CD’s versus OG vinyl — The Long Run, the Eagles’ sixth studio album, is a little like “those debutantes in Houston” mentioned in the title track. It couldn’t hold a candle to its predecessor, Hotel California. That album was so huge, so iconic, that anything in its wake was bound to suffer in comparison. …

3 digital versions of a Bob Dylan masterpiece compared — There is a case to be made that Blood on Tracks is Dylan’s greatest album, though it’s hard to pick due to the many times he’s shape-shifted over the years — from the early solo folk albums to the cutting edge “gone electric” trifecta of Bringing It All Back Home…

Cut-up poem derived from a passage in Being and Nothingness — “A single modification of my place involves the total change of my environment…” -Jean Paul Sartre a single change of place changes my environment totally the cat smells Yeats on the shelf in a new position where he hadn’t sat before objects appear and go away present and absent they hold power we are thrown between…

“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” A… —

A story of love, longing, and stone-cold ghosting — The rain woke me, lying in a bed that was soft but now was hard. The window was half open and the rain sound filtered through the screen and dogged my late night thoughts. I can’t quite describe how it felt to be lying there, still and wet, with planes…

It only took 35 years to come up with a band name — Juliet wanted Romeo so bad. Unfortunately he had the wrong name. Their families, the Capulets and Montagues, were the gangland equivalent of matter and anti-matter. If only her lover were called something else. “What’s in a name?” Juliet crowed from her balcony. …

Contents and Bibliographies — Britannica’s Great Ideas Today annual supplements to the Great Books of the Western World are fun intellectual time capsules to explore. The theme for the 1964 annual edition of The Great Ideas Today was relations between the United States and Europe. Part I features these articles: “The U.S. and the…

The benefits may surprise you — I’ve been reading The Creative Act: A Way of Being, a set of meditations on the creative process by Rick Rubin, the famed record producer. I received the book as a kind gift from a friend and have been lapping it up like a thirsty dog. In one of the…