Apesma's Lament

"Living my life. So that you don't have to."

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Tim Burgess' Class War

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I know something about panhandlers. For fifteen years, I’ve worked at Real Change, in Belltown. We’re across the street from DSHS, a few d...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Ghost of Tom Joad

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Men walkin' long the railroad tracks Goin someplace there's no goin' back Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge H...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

State Trooper

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This one evolved over a week. After I got comfortable with the bass line and then got inside it to work my way out again the song began to ...
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Monday, June 1, 2009

If I Were King ...

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Here's a tight interview that ran today on America's Disappeared, a program of the Prisoners Education Network that airs monthly on...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Masters of War

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Tonight I found a cool groove on the Dylan classic that kind of takes it away from sixties folk dirge and makes it sound as though it was re...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Blues for Michael Garcia

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I've been staring down the piano I bought last December for awhile and got out my "You Can Play Piano" book about a month ago....
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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Muddy Waters

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I spent most of my drive time the last few days hitting repeat on this song off Nick Cave's Kicking Against The Pricks album. I'm ...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Sick But Awesome

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This is wrong on so many levels, but brilliant nonetheless. Take the best scene of the best horror movie of all time, make it into a sick m...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

My Shiny New Retro Sears Guitar

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One of these days this blog will get back to substance, and I'll again recommend coming here to friends, but for now, here's a pictu...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Little Red Riding Hood

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I got on this today by messing with the little E run that starts this song, and it kind of went from there. This is what burn out looks lik...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Pablo Picasso, Or The Further Devolution of Me

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This blog has gone to hell since I started playing guitar more, joined Facebook, and got busier and more stressed than I've been in my e...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Phaedra

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Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra's Phaedra, by Tim and Revel. Don't ask me what this song is about. I don't know. But it's...
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Friday, March 6, 2009

I Embrace Socialism

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My interview with the Socialist Worker published yesterday, and was a rare opportunity to describe my notions of how homelessness and incarc...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Khalil Osiris

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Tonight I went over to Interaction/Transition, an ex-offender re-entry program up in the CD, to hear Khalil Osiris , a man who earned two de...
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Tim Harris
“Being is becoming,” and if we’re not “becoming,” we’re probably not doing much “being” either. This blog was started in a half-assed attempt at self-excavation. I have at least two unusual personality traits. The first is that I’m abnormally comfortable with ambiguity. I can happily muck about in the gray areas for years on end. This is probably why I love Seattle. The other is that I have a completely unrealistic belief in my own agency, which I tend to act upon. This blog has changed my life in more ways than I ever imagined. As my job as ED of a activist newspaper sold by homeless people, my vision for organizing, my thinking as a teacher, my history as a working-poor loser turned middle-class “advocate,” and my life as a parent swirled about me, this blog has been a path toward the center. We live in dangerous times, and the seductions to an easy, half-lived life of anesthetized materialism are all around. I have come to understand that my work is to be a revolutionary, both out in the world and within myself, turning over what is old, rotten, stale, and repressive, and building for a future where we can all find happiness and have the things we truly need.
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