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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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Mar 10, 2018
Mar 10, 2018
1hr 5 min
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
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Dec 7, 2017
Dec 7, 2017
52 min
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
Jun 13, 2017
Jun 13, 2017
2hr 29 min
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"
Oct 19, 2015
Oct 19, 2015
1hr 14 min
"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
Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015
1hr 4 min
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
Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014
1hr 7 min
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
May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014
54 min
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.