WHAT We’re DIGGING in 2017

musings on music, film, books, art, and pretty things.

December

November

18 - When children figure out how to add their own music to your Spotify playlists: yes, now I have a song by Charles Ritchie called Our God Is Able: Daniel 3:17 as a public playlist on my profile. Added, I’m quite certain, by a certain 7-year old caught up in all things having to do with Judaism, the Torah, and the book of Daniel.

October

10 - Watching All the Way, an HBO film on President Lyndon Johnson and civil rights.

Is there such a thing as listening to too much Dylan and Cohen?

September

August

July

07 - A almost-10yo buys Flora & Ulysses at Barnes and Noble. I miss Borders Books and Music. But am so glad for kids who love books, regardless of where they come from.

June

May

April

March

February

25 - A Playlist : “A jolly good Friday afternoon blast" (x5)

Wind In Our Sail - Weezer
Silly Me - Yeasayer
Police Encounters - FFS
You Are Killing Me - the Dandy Warhols
The Orange Monkey - PJ Harvey

18 - Watching Moana.

January

06 - Reading Neal Stephenson’s techno thriller Reamde (1999). Caught up in its sprawling, hacker-scenariod,, MMORPG, hunter-hunted-the-hunted, country-hopping tale covering all kinds of geographic and thematic ground.