Foolish Sage | October 9, 2009
I like being around [faith communities, churches]. I like being able to catch some of the energy, whatever I can or can’t believe. I think there’s something to be said for it. Despite the fact that most Christian denominations, politically, are about twenty million miles from where I want to be. ….If you’re into music, [...]
Foolish Sage | October 8, 2009
An old piece of folk wisdom says that if you don’t want to offend, there are two topics you never mention in polite company: politics and religion. Rock music has never much worried about polite company, and giving offense is often its raison d’etre. However, historically rock has far more often tread on the toes [...]
Foolish Sage | May 11, 2009
…really just an excuse to try out a new tool I’m using called Animoto:
That’s some of our grandkids on the recent Piedmont Farm Tour here in central North Carolina. Music fromWe Shall All Be Healed by The Mountain Goats.
Foolish Sage | April 29, 2009
Had a nice discussion last night on FriendFeed about my favorite band, The Mountain Goats. I decided to experiment with the new embedding feature offered by the beta release of FriendFeed to bring that conversation over to my blog. Let’s see how this works out, as my social web networks collide. Will it be the [...]
Foolish Sage | April 20, 2009
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A few months ago my friend singer/songwriter John Darnielle, leader of the Mountain Goats, challenged me on Facebook to a meme where you had to name the ten songs you couldn’t bear to be without, and explain why. Here’s my list (with links to the songs, where possible, from my blip.fm playlist):
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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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