On Galaxie 500’s “Tugboat”, Sterling Morrison, and Seeking Not for Riches But for Wisdom
“And verily I say unto thee that thou shalt lay aside the things of this world, and seek for the things of a better.” -D&C 25:10
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
“And verily I say unto thee that thou shalt lay aside the things of this world, and seek for the things of a better.” -D&C 25:10
Like Waiting for Godot, only longer…
I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but I feel like I’m taking crazy-pills every time I poke around online and see that virtually no one else seems interested in the fact that Miles Davis directly samples the opening track of 1969’s In a Silent Way on Side B of Jack Johnson.
Contemporary U.S. perceptions of Miguel de Cervantes’s 1605 novel Don Quixote are heavily filtered through the 1965 Broadway musical Man of La Mancha, whose big show-stopper “Dream the Impossible Dream” (featured most recently in the trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3) creates the impression that the novel’s thesis is that the world can be changed by those who dare to dream, or some such.
It’s love, it’s love…
The Welsh iconoclastic John Cale has spent virtually his entire career better known for his influence than his music. Co-founder of The Velvet Underground (always
I am still processing my grief at the recent passing of Low, whom I have previously argued was secretly the most Mormon band to ever exist, in all the best ways possible. So, I created this album guide.
In memoriam Tom Verlaine (1949-2023).
One’s a curiosity, two’s a coincidence, but three’s a full-blown trend: when not one, not two, but three separately and independently produced films about the RoboApocalypse debut at the same film festival, then you know for sure that’s something’s in the water, something’s just floating in the air, that is making audiences anxious about the rise of AI.
Essaying to escape the predictive algorithm all while never evading the eye of the Almighty.
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