Tag: depression

• Life, Death, Robin Williams and Henry Rollins

  I haven’t posted on some of the big, obvious topics that have been shooting down the rapids with such astonishing velocity and mass over the past few weeks. Ferguson, Missouri and ISIS, the leveling of Palestine, the Ebola outbreak. I could take the easy way out, as I had intended, by telling myself–and you–that I…

  JunkChuck

  August 23, 2014

  Commentary

  anger, david foster wallace, depression, grief, henry rollins, kurt cobain, loss, mork, robin williams, spalding gray, suicide

• Uncle Tupelo

  I’m sitting here listening to Uncle Tupelo’s landmark album “No Depression” for the thousandth odd time–and I wanted to take a minute to thank Brian R. who introduced me to the band in it’s dying days back–oh–about 20 years ago. It took some urging–I thought Uncle Tupelo was a silly name and didn’t exactly rush…

  JunkChuck

  January 31, 2014

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  80s, 90’s, alt.country, and rold, anodyne, bloomfield, cat, classic, depression, fararr, indie, liberty, music, no, paul’s, pittsburgh, rock, son, sound, tupelo, tweedy, uncle, volt, wilco