Foolish Sage | March 5, 2010
Image by Plutor via Flickr
Are they geeks who are rock stars or rock stars who moonlight as geeks? Whichever is the chicken or the egg, the members of the rock band OK Go got their geek on once again and produced the most talked about music video since…well, since their last homemade music video, the [...]
Foolish Sage | November 3, 2009
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.
- J. K. Rowling (http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html – quoted in Harry Potter and Imagination: The Way Between Worlds by Travis Prinzi, p. iv.)
Foolish Sage | August 26, 2009
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but over the past six months only one has consistently rated “must-never-ever-miss-an-episode”: WNYC’s RadioLab. Here’s the show’s self-description:
Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and [...]
Foolish Sage | June 6, 2009
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We live in an intricate web of relationships that comprises the visible and the invisible, and so we need words that at one and the same time designate what is immediate to us via our senses and also immediate to us by faith. Ours is the world of dirt and stone, roads and [...]
Foolish Sage | February 27, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut»
Here is the video from the fourth song on Flying Club Cup by Beirut (Zach Condon and band). The song is “La Banlieue”
La banlieue (literally “the outskirts”) is the French term for an area of low income housing around the edge [...]
Foolish Sage | February 27, 2009
(From the Making Men Moral Conference at Union University, Jackson TN, February 25-27, 2009. As reported by Owen Strachan. A friend tells me Harry Poe is the great grandson of Edgar Allen Poe. If anyone has any more bio on him, I’ll be glad to add it here. HT for the quote to Christ Datillo [...]
Foolish Sage | February 24, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut»
Here is the video for “Sunday Smile,” the second song off Beirut’s album Flying Club Cup.
This time the video is set in the courtyard of a Brooklyn apartment building. I like the substitution of twin ukuleles in this live arrangement for [...]
Foolish Sage | February 23, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut»
Beirut (Creator/songwriter Zach Condon & band) is an intriguing fusion of indie/pop sensibilities with European folk traditions. Condon’s first album, 2006’s Gulag Orkestar, was heavily influence by Balkan and gypsy traditions. I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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