Environmentalism, conservation, and more.

Different Drummer: Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen - "The Future"

10,000 Maniacs - "Poison in the Well"

Reverend Moon - "Old Graves"

Moonwood - "Drawing Water from a Poisoned Well"

Yes - "The Ancient - Giants Under the Sun"

Graham Parker - "Green Monkeys"

The Fall - "Van Plague?"

Wu-Tang Clan - "America"

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "Same Love" featuring Mary Lambert

Melissa Etheridge - "Silent Legacy"

Leonard Cohen - "Everybody Knows"

Leonard Cohen - "Democracy"

Grand Funk Railroad - "Creepin'"

Dead Kennedys - "Soup is Good Food"

XTC - "Scarecrow People"

Skinny Puppy - "Testure"

Holly Cole - "Fragile"

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Two Gunslingers"

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"

Leonard Cohen - "Anthem"

"Tricks" refers to more spooky, scary, traditional elements of Halloween in music, movies, and performance art. Less from childhood and more from college on, this reminds me of candles, incense, and very strange sounds coming from either my television or stereo.

Different Drummer: Molly Harvey

The Weatherman

Life Would Be Wonderful 2

For the era of album-oriented music (rock, jazz, etc.), understanding the history of a musical artist or group happened at a track-by-track level. Back then we bought albums rather than songs, and the way those tracks were laid out on either vinyl or plastic was part of the artistry.

Different Drummer: Brian Eno

Track By Track at InappropriateConversations.org

Happy Thanksgiving week! As an Advent Booklet of sorts, the content for this episode really applies to next Sunday. Advent begins on November 30th this year. You can listen all at once or take the content one week at a time between now and Christmas.

Different Drummer: John Fahey

The birth of a pseudonym tends to be all about necessity, but the death of a pen name is rarely chronicled. I've been speaking, here and there, about The Author since the second Inappropriate Conversations podcast. Here is the rest of that story, in a surrealistic way.

Exactly 30 years ago tonight (from the time of this posting) I was the victim of an armed robbery, staring down the barrel of a gun. I know a bit about courage, not because I demonstrated such resolve in the face of fear, but because I didn't. Nothing about that experience changed or solidified my perspective on gun control or gun violence. It did bring other changes, though, like maturity in facing my fears.

Different Drummer: Joni Mitchell

Behind the song: "A Case Of You"

As a genre, "thriller" is different from horror or other suspense films, but that distinction is in grave danger of being lost forever.  Before the most common forms of scary cinema became slashers or demonic possession, when serial killer movies were crime-dramas rather than gorefests, the thriller was the TV equivalent of the midnight movie.  Now, with Halloween approaching, you are more likely to see Friday The Umpteenth than any of the classics starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, or Vincent Price.  Film fans have lost more than we realize.

Different Drummer: Jakob Rehlinger

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