Safe & Free

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

Overwrought? I dunno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5nSvPhaerk

Giving Love

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

What...a...weirdo. I did a performance of this at the Hotel Utah, and the crowd response made me feel like a rockstar. But it felt too weird to keep on the set list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOY96E7qF2k

The First Festivus Miracle

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

This one's B slot may be sorely tested, as i'm writing a new December holiday song that feels high-voltage. This one's a sweet sleeper, that exists as a counterpoint to the comedic juice of the others in my holiday set. It's hard to justify keeping four once-a-year songs memorized, when i can only keep sixty songs in my head. Will this be bumped, or will my cover of "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'" go? Write in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTYttwI4zIY

Hippie Man

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

A song from the earliest days, when my friend jim helped me record my first album. I couldn't even play my own instrument that day, and never imagined songwriting as anything other than a secondary spice to my storytelling. It had some good performances, and it was a rush to get audiences to shout back "no no". Jim thought this one might endure, but it ultimately felt good-not-great when measured against subsequent songs. Was i right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-PU5jpIhII

M.L. Crisis

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

Does anyone NOT get what the abbreviation means? I thought this might endure on A, as i love the wacky, horny vibe (and one songwriter was surprised to learn that this wasn't a cover...a compliment from the right person can have an inordinate effect), but the influx of new songs buried it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHqylXLY5YU

"autobiography of a blue-eyed devil"

(my life and times in a racist, imperialist society)

-by inga muscio

2005

Be sure you get the updated 2014 edition.

I despair of doing justice to this brilliant, essential book. Not every author has two great books in them - indeed, a reasonable expectation is otherwise. But inga has scaled the same heights she took her debut, "Cunt". Superlatives fail. This book is a hardcore eye-opener.

I'm not one for self-recrimination. I try to lead all my interactions with radical forgiveness...for myself included. But this sweeping, scathing book had me looking hard at my own life. My reaction to living in this morally bankrupt society has always been non-cooperation. Do NOT chase the money and privilege my birth status prepared for me. Do not follow the hypocritical religion foisted upon me as a child. Do NOT grab a high-status job - leave that slot for someone with ovaries or differing pigmentation. Do NOT marry a white womyn or make white babies, to keep the money in the white world.

That's well and good...

But inga has me facing how pathetically little i've done to proactively dismantle white patriarchy.

This is one of the few books i've ever read, which i won't immediately pass on to someone else. Oh, i'll find other copies to give to those i love, but i might need to re-read the glossary of examined terms, for a hard reminder of what sane sensitivity feels like. If you don't have time to read the book yet, just read that glossary...

You might find yourself doing so again and again.

Confused

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

I adore this song, but its performances didn't convince me the world agreed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqX7nAISwc