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My new bands name is State Road 261 and our breakthrough album is titled Shall They be Saved. The album cover is below. Our music is mainly Old-Timey, but we like to do covers of non-old-timey stuff, if you know what I mean. Our big hit single is an old-timey version of 'Ode to Billy Joe,' originally by Bobbie Gentry.
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i really need to get back to music on my ipod instead of podcasts all the time...
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Great! I'm not absolutely sure what kind of music my band does. It might be minimalist a la John Cage! That would suit my musical talents...
I see you are having the trouble with the Flash Plugin business too. I wish Blogger had real tech support.
Some years ago I took an extension course from Carol Bly, the writer, educator, and ethicist who died earlier this year. Our textbook was her anthology Changing the Bully Who Rules the World, which had not even been published yet - we used galley proofs. When I tell people about the course, I can never quite remember what it was called, but I think of it as "Literature and Ethics" or "Ethics in Literature" or "Ethical Literature." It included short stories about how people do or do not behave ethically toward one another, and the stories were interspersed with appropriate essays and commentaries by Ms. Bly. The stories presumably had more literary merit than "Ode to Billy Joe," but I always thought that the song would have made an excellent text for the class. The real narrative of the song is not, of course, about people jumping off or throwing flowers off a bridge, but about people having dinner together who have, in spite of being as close to each other as people can be, lost the ability to hear each other.
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