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...future - let's discuss the present and the past. September 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of rock-guitar great Jimi Hendrix. When he was alive, he was bigger than life, asking his fans to "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" on his 1967 song "Purple Haze," transforming the "Star-Spangled Banner" into an anthem of alienation at Woodstock in 1969. In death he has become a standard by which to judge the pop stars who have come after him. Although he died at age 27 of asphyxiation brought on by a sleeping-pill overdose...
...even as I emerge from the thick haze of highly seductive rhetoric that's enveloped this week's proceedings, I'm left with a grudging respect for people who fiercely defend their involvement in the Republican party as a vehicle for national improvement. (I don't agree with them, mind you, but at least I no longer respond to the presence of a Republican by sticking my fingers in my ears and singing tunelessly "La la la la I can't hear...
...Anything by the Allman Bros. 3. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - CSNY 4. Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones 5. What's Love Got to Do With It? - Tina Turner 6. Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin 7. Cowgirl in the Sand - Neil Young 8. Love Shack - B-52's 9. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix 10. Chan Chan - Buena Vista Social Club
...Life - Beatles 2. Satisfaction - Stones 3. Like a Rolling Stone - Dylan 4. Born to Run - Springsteen 5. Respect - Aretha 6. What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye 7. Piece of my Heart - Janis Joplin 8. Purple Haze - Hendrix 9. Rave On - Buddy Holly 10. Tutti Frutti - Little Richard...
...were having dinner with a friend at her house on Martha's Vineyard. The sun had gone down. We ate dinner in the afterlight, looking out over Vineyard Sound. We peered toward the mainland and one of us said, "There's going to be a storm." A dark, ominous haze had gathered - disorienting indeed. The water of the Sound had become indistinguishable from the air - all was an inky continuum, a squid's cloud. Only when we looked higher, into the upper air, did we see vestiges of light. We lit a fire and talked awhile, and night descended...