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		<title>Steve &#8216;Caz Camberline&#8217; Becker&#8230; Rest in peace, my brother.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 21:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t quite remember the first time I met my near-lifelong pal, Steve Becker. He was a childhood friend of my first roommate, a quiet, even taciturn element in the sometimes rowdy mix of mostly musicians who hung out in our strange &#8212; and supposedly haunted &#8212; garret/loft apartment, a sprawling, mostly empty, multi-level space [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Scene Is Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No, not A Year of Songs&#8230; this scene is probably more like a fair beauty cast under a wicked spell waiting for her prince to plant a big fat smacker on her pale lips&#8230; or maybe more like an irascible old bear at the ragged end of hibernation, hearing the chirping of spring birds and putting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Best of AYoS: the view from the hayloft door</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The view from the hayloft door First published: TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2006 There&#8217;s a doomed beauty in knowing you&#8217;re about to make what you&#8217;ll probably look back on as the mistake of your life. Everything seems more real, more vivid, more 3D. You look around as though it&#8217;s the last time you&#8217;re ever going to see [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Slant Six Valiant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My first car was a VW Karmann Ghia, which was basically a VW engine and running gear with a surprisingly exotic, one-piece body from the Ghia bodyworks (famous for work on exotic European sports cars) atop it. Slant Six Valiant more stream &#38; DL options It was a fun car &#8212; but it was no [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Thousand Lies (Bridge to Nowhere)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NEW SONG ALERT! The best liars don&#8217;t really need a reason. They&#8217;re glib. They&#8217;re creative. They enjoy lying. They&#8217;re not sociopaths&#8230; clinically speaking. They have feelings, stirrings of empathy; they indulge in sentimentalism and symbolic emotionalism&#8230; in fact, it&#8217;s the language they speak&#8230; all too fluently, at times. A Thousand Lies (Bridge to Nowhere) listen [soundclick [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Superstition is where you find it&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The search for cause and effect has not always been carried out with a rigorous methodology carefully crafted to return reliable results. Sometimes, folks make cognitive leaps that are breathtaking in their intuitive scope but are still just plain wack. Many supposedly scientific westerners have elaborate personal systems of superstition which they keep separate from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Desperation is in short supply&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/02/17/desperation-is-in-short-supply/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is often said that trouble, trouble, at any rate, that doesn&#8217;t kill us, makes us stronger. But there are times when you&#8217;d trade all life&#8217;s hard-learned lessons and ennobling sorrows for a little rest&#8230; a break in the action&#8230; the pain subsiding into a dull ache&#8230; even for a little while. You slog forward [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Throw the bums out&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/02/05/throw-the-bums-out/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve written before in this space about being an anti-war, environmentally concerned Republican (unnecessary war only benefits the arms dealers and a dead planet is bad for business &#8212; what&#8217;s hard to understand about that?) I figure it&#8217;s probably appropriate for me to announce some changes around here&#8230; I wish the GOP was still [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Attention Cultural Paradigm Shoppers&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/01/07/attention-cultural-paradigm-shoppers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I loved the early days of the punk/new wave era. From the moment I cut my hair at the end of the summer in 1973, I&#8217;d felt something was coming. Where long hair had once been a sign that the person under it might be nice or might be weird or crazy &#8212; but at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Used to Be America</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/10/15/this-used-to-be-america/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Song Alert! Preachin&#8217; democracy&#8230; It&#8217;s still preachin&#8217;. With all that entails. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been spending so much time listening to country, mountain, and rural gospel lately. They ain&#8217;t afraid of no preachin&#8217;&#8230;. Anyway, when the phrase &#8220;This used to be America&#8221;* came to my lips the other day (in one of those [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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