Driving home last night, I heard the song “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer. Do you know the piece? I think it’s very innocent and pretty. All the more interesting since the piece was written by a man, yet has such a feminine sensibility. The group identifies as a Christian […]

Thank you to my loyal fans who have stopped in and visited during this time of transition. I love my new place! Possibilities stretch out before me. I think they are always there, it’s just that we need to let go sometimes and embrace the unknown to find them.
I have three […]

I’ve missed my loyal readers here at the Imagine Weblog. I’m back. I spent the last month securing and moving into my new apartment, just outside of Northampton, Ma, and it is fabulous. It’s a great place to write and create; I will have many new releases coming your way soon.
Until […]

-Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

-Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
-Noam Chomsky
The truth draws people in. They sense something is wrong, sense that somehow they need to wake up- cut […]

A quick follow up on my last post: I feel NPR has some meaningful programming. Alternative Radio, for one. Some NPR affiliates carry Democracy Now. Some clearly don’t. But let me further explain the concern I was trying to voice in my last post.
It troubles me that a person […]

“…these candidates talk about change, they don’t know what change is.”
-Mike Gravel, presidential candidate
Monday night, on the PBS program Newshour, former US Senator from Alaska Mike Gravel did something extremely unusual.
He was truthful. He spoke about issues that are actually on people’s minds in this country, and this is so […]

The best artists allow themselves to be vulnerable, that’s what defines the great artist. Vulnerability and courage. Mediocre artists are not mediocre for their lack of skill, they are mediocre for their lack of courage.
I saw this in music school; I’ve observed it in the artists I admire; I see […]

Tell me I’m the only one…
-Me’Shell Ndegeocello “Mary Magdalene”
Me’Shell Ndegeocello wrote and recorded one of the most sincere, powerful, beautiful love songs I have ever heard. It’s called “Mary Magdalene”. The record is Peace Beyond Passion.

I worked with a talented bass player named Andrew Lack. One day he dropped […]

With Alberto Gonzales soon to be departed, I hoped to comment briefly on his tenure in the White House, and as US Attorney General.
Mr. Gonzales said the following recently, in a short speech announcing his resignation: “Public service is honorable, and noble.”
Well, that may be true, but we should ask […]

You and I are underdosed and we’re ready to fall
Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all
-Marilyn Manson “I Don’t Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)”
Another idea that came out of this film for me: could it be that the stupidity Nerenberg portrays is a reaction to the availability of […]