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Cycling Mantras ~ Establishing Desert Rhythms

Written by Patrick on April 24, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Jazz, Music, Pop, Rock, Stories

Bicycling is among my passions, one of the ways I connect to the world, my body, my being. The rhythm of riding, the cyclical nature of cycling, of spinning the crank arms, to spin a cogset, to spin the chain, so that the wheels spin. Round and round and round in a circle game…the movement [...]

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I know why you’re crying ~ Orbison & lang know why too

Written by Patrick on April 22, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Music, Rock, Stories

Sometimes the words bring a song to mind. This poem was in my thoughts this morning and as the words of it washed over me a melody rose out of words. And out of a melody rose k.d. lang’s wail, Crying. Roy Orbison wrote about a cry arising from reasons much different than those I [...]

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Neil Young: He came dancing across the water

Written by Patrick on April 9, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Music, Music Review, Review, Rock, Stories

I can remember the first time I heard this album, Zuma. I was all of 20 years old, ski bumming in Whistler, BC, and gathered with a bunch of friends after the bars had closed. I can’t remember her name. She was skinny and not very attractive in any traditional sense, but there was something [...]

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