Two snippets from Ford’s The Good Soldier (1924). The word “sentimental” or some form of it occurs 28 times in the novel–a use for big data! ************ For all good soldiers are sentimentalists—all good soldiers…
Date Archives December 2014
Forget the Ones
Will Johnson, in Scorpion, has told an album-length story that seems to me to dramatize the human in a particular time and place but also to have dramatized an aspect of human nature that isn’t…
This is 40: Will Johnson’s Best
In 2011 Will Johnson turned 40. In that same year his rock and roll project, the group Centro-Matic, released what I think is their best album (I might qualify this by calling it their most…
The Golden Beast of Love
I have loved single songs off of probably every album Will Johnson has attached his name to results in peer-reviewed literature, should be considered• Murmur of unknown tadalafil generic. The sessualità Is considered a fundamental…
It’s My Nature: Will Johnson’s “Scorpion”
Will Johnson’s 2012 album Scorpion is a beautiful work. Each listening will deepen your experience. When asked in an interview on WFHB’s “Firehouse Sessions“–by me–about the titles of his “Will Johnson” albums (rather than those…
Energy and Doom
The future is incompatible with human thinking. That’s not to say we cannot imagine “tomorrow” but that what we imagine will always be cobbled together out of “pastness.” Further, the very same thinking that is…