90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a column that proves, week after week, that stolen goods are worthless, unless you work hard to steal them, because when you earn what you own it’s worth more. It’s written by a creepy man in his mid-forties whose address is Woodall Hall 124, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus,…
Transcendent music is found in every genre, like the holy in the everyday. It all comes down to paying attention to your life, and to be aware of what you are seeing and hearing. Why do songs still matter long after they have been used to sell cars or deodorant? We hold on so tightly to the songs and…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a column from and about the place where musical artifacts and life combine to form something else, by an old self-absorbed writing professor. If you’d like to play along, send stereo-friendly things to Woodall Hall 133, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31907.
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Unheard explores the moist recesses of “unconventional music” and attempts to have fun doing so. Whether it’s pimply basement hounds jockeying weathered blocks of noise or beefy luddites clunking out waxy half-songs on broken Casio keyboards and even-more-broken electric guitars,…
“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.” Cicero
No truer words could be written on art than these, recorded centuries ago in what we regard as a more “primitive” age than our own: in judging creative work we must guard against the falsehoods of fashion,…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a column of music and collecting and life, written by an old writing professor at a midsized school in the Deep South. You’ll find here snappy prose, links, and videos made in homage to the greatest rock video of all time and deference to the YouTube cat hegemon. If you’d…
Transcendent music is found in every genre, like the holy in the everyday. It all comes down to paying attention to your life, and to be aware of what you are seeing and hearing. Why do songs still matter long after they have been used to sell cars or deodorant? We hold on so tightly to the songs and…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a new column by Joe Miller that fetishizes musical artifacts in a post-Replacements/YouTube way. Miller videos records, cassettes, and sometimes CDs as they play in his home, office, and sometimes car. Animals wander in and out, and his wife does too, but you’ll never see…
