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Too often, political and/or religious ideologies stop open dialog. It’s time to speak freely and break down the barriers that keep people separated. Let's have an inappropriate conversation about …
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Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Who could resist the combination of April Fool's Day and Easter Sunday? Not me. "A Simple Yes Or No" was originally published in The Juke Joint Journal, 1986.
Different Drummer: Animal
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
Highlights, poetry/prose, essays, and Different Drummers from the first 8 years of Inappropriate Conversations, which started on March 7, 2010.
Different Drummer: Derek Jarman
Highlights
195: Telling Your Stories (Before It's Too Late)
Poetry and Prose
93: Poetry Providing Perspective
Essays
29: My Prayer for a Football Game
59: 10 Areas of Agreement about Abortion, part 1
60: 10 Areas of Agreement about Abortion, part 2
Different Drummers
22: Art and the Strange Bedfellows
50: The Most Significant Art Form
87: Used Record Stores and a Healthy Aquarium
Also:
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Your points and questions #6 covers a couple of years of feedback, with nods to Nancy, Nicole, Shane, Chris, and others.
Different Drummer: Maria McKee
Thursday Dec 07, 2017
Thursday Dec 07, 2017
If we don't speak up now, raising our voices in dissent, then when will we? An argument could be made that the powers-that-be are striving to stifle the means by which those voices may be heard.
Now is the time to speak in favor of Net Neutrality.
Now is the time to note that we will never be able to return to this moment in history.
Now is the time to insist the our leaders put nation ahead of party, the intent of our so-called "founding fathers" above self-interest.
Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country.
Reds (1981)
Different Drummer: Diane Keaton
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Religion.
Different Drummer: Larry Kirwan
T Bone Burnett - "I Can Explain Everything"
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - "Tell It All, Brother"
Roger Waters - "What God Wants Part 1"
Jethro Tull - "My God"
Jethro Tull - "Hymn 43"
Jethry Tull - "Wind Up"
Laurie Anderson - "Beautiful Red Dress"
Joni Mitchell - "The Magdelene Laundries"
Tori Amos - "Leather" (live)
No Doubt - "Just A Girl"
Black 47 - "Black 47"
Black 47 - "James Connolly"
Flogging Molly - "What's Left of the Flag"
XTC - "Dear God"
XTC - "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"
DC Talk - "Jesus Freak"
Ministry - "Psalm 69"
Tim Dorsey - "Tiger Shrimp Tango"
Nuclear Assault - "Preaching to the Deaf"
Nuclear Assault - "Hypocrisy"
Todd Snider - "Somebody's Coming"
Todd Snider - "Conservative, Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males"
Todd Snider - "Alot More"
T Bone Burnett - "I Can Explain Everything (Reprise)"
Saturday May 06, 2017
Saturday May 06, 2017
General, variety.
Different Drummer: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Midnight Oil - "Blue Sky Mine"
The Jam - "Running on the Spot"
The Jam - "Going Underground"
David Bynre - "Miss America"
Scatterbrain - "Goodbye Freedom, Hello Mom"
Wicked (cast) - "Defying Gravity"
Hamilton (cast) - "My Shot"
Hamilton (cast) - "The Election of 1800"
Hamilton (cast) - "Non-Stop"
Travis Tritt - "Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man"
USAF Academy Band and Cadet Chorale - "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor"
Nanci Griffith - "Deportee (Plan Wreck at Los Gatos)"
Violent Femmes - "Old Mother Reagan"
Violent Femmes - "No Killing"
Ernie Thacker - "The Hangman" (Maurice Ogden)
Frederic Rzewski - "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!"
Indigo Girls - "Let It Be Me"
Midnight Oil - "Beds Are Burning"
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
War.
Different Drummer: Neil Young
Jefferson Airplane - "Volunteers"
Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"
Guns 'n' Roses - "Civil War"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Fortunate Son"
Dead Kennedys - "Kinky Sex Makes the World go 'Round"
Pink Floyd - "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert"
Crass - "How Does It Feel"
Crass - "Sheep Farming in the Falklands"
Morrissey - "Margaret on the Guillotine"
Neil Young - "Rocking in the Free World"
Neil Young - "Southern Man"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Powderfinger"
The Cowboy Junkies - "Powderfinger"
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Ohio"
Neil Young & The Stray Gators - "War Song"
John Denver - "'68 Nixon"
Dixie Chicks - "Not Ready To Make Nice"
Elvis Costello - "Shipbuilding"
Skinny Puppy - "VX Gas Attack"
Flipper - "Sacrifice"
XTC - "War Dance"
Got A Girl - "There's a Revolution"