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	<description>what passes as light</description>
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		<title>Secret Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cheerleaders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The National]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A song lyric, courtesy of The National, perfectly describes where each of us leads another life, apart and utterly alone from everyone, including those we love: I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain. I wish I had fewer &#8212; or at least less contentious &#8212; such meetings. And how about an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dream of The Honey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A song whose foreign words I don&#8217;t understand grabbed me recently and won&#8217;t let go. The Afro-pop music by Fool&#8217;s Gold is so mesmerizing that I had never wondered about the lyrics, though Luke Top&#8217;s voice is melodious as an instrument. I&#8217;ve played the song dozens of times, often consecutively. Uplifting yet plaintive,&#8221;Ha Dvash&#8221; takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best one-liners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;one-liner&#8221; evokes comedians and jokes. Lately the one-liners that stick with me are from songs. Here are two that keep bouncing around in my head long after the music has stopped, courtesy of the Avett Brothers&#8217; newest CD: There&#8217;s a darkness upon me flooded in light, and I am a breathing time machine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banjo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Blogotheque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sufjan Stevens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is the banjo&#8217;s sound a pleasure genetically shared? My grown son, Zachary, told me again today how much he loves Sufjan Stevens&#8216; rooftop rendition of &#8220;Lakes of Canada.&#8221; Part of the appeal is more than the banjo, however. It&#8217;s the way Stevens is filmed by La Blogotheque, coincidentally in my city of birth. Funny how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Fix</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Ballroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[die-hard fans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I make no secret of my adoration for The Avett Brothers, a band I fell for even harder after seeing them live last summer. For that concert at the Oregon Zoo, I stood in a monsoon-like rain, oblivious to the drenching. Now I&#8217;ve seen them again, this time indoors last Friday night at the Crystal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Torture Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture memos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Read the words. Listen to the words. Watch them sung. Then ask yourself what have &#8212; or did &#8212; we become? Ask why nearly every major news organization can&#8217;t bring itself to equate waterboarding with &#8220;torture&#8221; when, in fact, the United States executed World War II enemies for the same practice? Maybe Jonathan Mann&#8217;s song, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory-Making Music</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/memory-making-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Mathis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Beatles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I say &#8220;album,&#8221; some young people look as if I&#8217;ve uttered a foreign word. Thus this headline touting the top 25 theme or concept albums caught my eye. Cohesiveness in these works is lost in today&#8217;s random-shuffle world. My favorite (not that I&#8217;ve heard them all) is Sufjan Stevens&#8216; Illinoise. His &#8220;John Wayne Gacey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Keeping It Clean</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/not-keeping-it-clean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avett Brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profanity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t chide myself anymore for my swearing, which in my fifties has become more profane and repetitive when I&#8217;m alone and less frequent when around others. That&#8217;s because an article in a scientific journal describes profanity as ubiquitous and a &#8220;natural part of speech development.&#8221; Guess I&#8217;m off the hook. It&#8217;s little consolation. When [...]]]></description>
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