By Mark | October 7, 2018
I’m reminded today of something that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in the February 8, 1958 issue of the Baptist magazine Missions. “Those of us who call the name of Jesus Christ find something in the center of our faith which forever reminds us that God is on the side of truth and justice,” Dr. […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Archie Byron, Brett Kavanaugh, Buttermilk Bottom, Caesar, civil rights, concentration camps, Donald Trump, evil, Jesus Christ, justice, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, moral arc, Nazi, Ned Cartlidge, nonviolence, Theodore Parker, truth, William Cullen Bryant, Wöbbelin |
By Mark | August 20, 2018
I forgot to mention it, but The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, the most recent record by my one-day-a-year pseudo band, the Monkey Power Trio, debuted on the college charts a few weeks ago, which I think might be a first for us. [While we’ve always gotten played quite a bit by the likes of WFMU […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bad Monkey X, Canada, Christian Wolfcock, Cleveland, college radio, Feed Your Hunger, Hillary Clinton, Jep Clayton, kayaks, origin story, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, radio charts, The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, Toronto, WCBN, WFMU |
I try my best not to be too terribly sentimental about things. I understand that, no matter how much we might try to stop it from happening, everything changes. I know, eventually, everything wonderful and meaningful is destroyed and replaced. As I’ve discussed here before, though, there are certain things I find it difficult to […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged CBGB, commoditization, David Spivey, East Village, East Village Grieve, Hilly Kristal, New Jersey, Nordstrom, popular culture, punk, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Stereogum, Stiv Bators, Talking Heads, television, The Patti Smith Group |
Back in November of 2012, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense somehow managed to bring world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley and his band, The Coup, to Ypsilanti to play a fundraiser for Ozone House, to support their work with at-risk and marginalized LGBTQ teens. As you may recall, in my interview with Riley, recorded a day […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized | Also tagged 21 Grams, Alex Rivera, American Splendor, Boots Riley, community organizing, Danny Glover, Danny Goldberg, David Cross, fast food workers union, film making, foreclosure defense, Happiness, hip hop, Ice Storm, indie film, Lakeith Stanfield, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Sandy, Occupy Wall Street, Ozone House, Patton Oswalt, police brutality, Pride Zone, rap, Sleep Dealer, Sorry to Bother You, Street Sweeper Social Club, Ted Hope, telemarketing, Terry Crews, The Coup, unions, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense |
[above: The author’s son is impressed into service.] My one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio, has a new record out. It’s a 10″ called The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, and it was recorded over two sessions – our 20th day as band, which was spent in the godawful exurbs of Atlanta in 2014, and our […]
