Foolish Sage | June 19, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Director Rian Johnson‘s beautifully understated short documentary film The Life of the World to Come is streaming this week only at Pitchfork TV. Set on a bare stage in the auditorium of Pomona College, the film records a performance by John Darnielle of all the tracks of the most recent album of [...]
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 [...]
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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 stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for Virante, an Internet Marketing firm.Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
