We were put here on earth to help others. I’m not sure what others were put here for.
W.H. Auden
BREAK UP SONG
by STARLEE KINE
Starlee Kine is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on This American Life and Marketplace. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. She is the co-creator of the Post It Note Reading Series in Brooklyn.
In this story, which originally aired on NPR’s This American Life in August of 2007, Ms. Kine talks about what makes a great break up song and details her efforts to put her break up with her boy friend into song, seeking advice from break up song expert, Phil Collins.
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A Medley of My Hits
These 7 tunes, lined up here, represent the high points of my career as a lyricist and cover a multi-decade span of work that ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous.
I’m not the kind of person who likes to look back very often but, when I do, it’s gratifying to see these babies, back there in my rear-view mirror
Here’s a brand new demo of a new Cody song, sung by the amazingly talented and soulful Vanessa Jourdan
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Henri Poincaré
New Thought, New Song Podcast: Phil Cody "It's Only A Song"
Here’s an interview I did about songwriting with Josh Sterling, for his “New Thought, New Song” podcast.
The Photography Of Natalie Manuel
So much of what passes for culture on The Web is total bullshit. But the medium does have its transcendent moments - as illustrated by these beautiful animal photographs by Natalie Manuel
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On Politics - Why The Republicans Lost
It has been fun watching the Republican orgy of self-flagellation that has been going on since this past Tuesday evening. Couldn’t have happened to a “nicer” bunch of folks.
Watching the Republicans blame everything and everyone, from a hurricane to the campaign headquarters caterers for their electoral fuck up has been fun but, in the sober light of day, the real reasons the Republicans failed are these:
- their economic policies have been proven not to work
- their social policies create too many hardships for too many people
- they don’t understand, at a practical level, what it means to be an ordinary American
- they didn’t have Barack Obama
