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	<description>&#34;He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.&#34; - E. M. Forster</description>
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		<title>Chuck Taggart&#8217;s New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2005/09/01/chuck-taggarts-new-orleans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 01:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just mentioned Mr. Taggart in my last post.  He currently hosts Down Home, a New Orleans-focused music program every Thursday night from 7 to 9 p.m. Pacific time on KCSN 88.5 FM (public radio station at Cal State Northridge). I hope he won&#8217;t mind me quoting one his blog entries from earlier today:

I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay safe</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2005/09/01/stay-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 01:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been avoiding TV news.  Instead I&#8217;ve been listening to updates on NPR and keeping tabs on what&#8217;s going on via the Web, especially reading the Survival of New Orleans blog, a Live Journal written by Michael Barnett, the crisis manager at DirectNIC.com.    He&#8217;s holed up in the skyscraper that houses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lehman legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2005/07/07/lehman-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Silly, only grown-up men are scared of women!&#34;
That&#8217;s my favorite quote from one of my favorite movies.  Duane Chase (playing a boy named Kurt) said it, but Ernest Lehman wrote it.
The movie? The Sound of Music.
Not a big fan of the schmaltzy Julie Andrews movie about nuns and Nazis?
How about&#8230;
Hello, Dolly!&#8230;
The King and I&#8230;or&#8230;
West [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Ismail Merchant</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2005/05/25/goodbye-ismail-merchant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2005 21:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read the news that Ismail Merchant, of Merchant Ivory Productions, died today in London.  He was 68.  (Here&#8217;s the AP/Yahoo news report.)
I&#8217;m very saddened, and at this point, I can&#8217;t form the words to write everything I want to write.  I will say that his death is a great loss. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll be your little boy running with that egg on his spoon</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2005/03/28/paul-hester/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2005/03/28/paul-hester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I read the news about Paul Hester&#8217;s suicide last night on MetaFilter and couldn&#8217;t believe it.  He was probably best known worldwide as the drummer for the Neil Finn-songwriting-driven band Crowded House, one of my all-time favorite groups.
I was just listening to the album Woodface for the gazillionth  time the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gmail invites for helping disaster relief</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2004/12/31/gmail-invites-for-helping-disaster-relief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2004/12/31/gmail-invites-for-helping-disaster-relief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been puttering around this week and wondering how I could possibly help the huge disaster left by the tsunamis in southeastern Asia.  I came down with a cold a few days ago&#8230;and I was thinking, I have more than enough to combat the silly cold: water, food in the fridge, warm clothes, plenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2004/12/29/donate-to-the-red-cross-disaster-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If possible, please donate to help the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.  I&#8217;m still confounded by the magnitude of the disaster.
Many organizations are collecting funds; one is the Red Cross.  You can donate directly to the Red Cross.  The link is for the American Red Cross (redcross.org), but you can Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polly want a new drug</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2004/10/01/polly-want-a-new-drug/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2004/10/01/polly-want-a-new-drug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2004 04:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>musicaddict</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From NPR&#8217;s The Tavis Smiley Show: Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don&#8217;t Want You to Know About the Debates.  An important read.
And, for something a little different&#8230;from MAD magazine&#8217;s issue #446: The GWB campaign&#8217;s commercial, if Bush were running against Jesus. (Saw the link on a number of sites, including J-Walk Blog)
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		<title>Elliott Smith&#8217;s legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2003/10/22/elliott-smiths-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2003/10/22/elliott-smiths-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw this, much to my sadness:
Songwriter Elliott Smith Dead at 34.
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s David Bloom dies covering Iraq war</title>
		<link>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2003/04/06/nbcs-david-bloom-dies-covering-iraq-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musicandmeaning.com/site/musings/archives/2003/04/06/nbcs-david-bloom-dies-covering-iraq-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2003 23:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read the above headline from the AP wire and my reaction was simply, &#34;Oh, no.&#34;
 Bloom died of a pulmonary embolism that was not (directly) combat-related.  According to the Yahoo/AP report, the close-quarter conditions of traveling (immobilized legs) may have been a factor in the clot.
I always liked David Bloom.  When I [...]]]></description>
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