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The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
- Philip Larkin
- Hammer Down
- Magnolia Electric Co.
- Nashville Moon
“Hammer Down” by Magnolia Electric Co. from Nashville Moon
- Soul
- Magnolia Electric Co.
- Nor Cease Thou Never Now... 7"
“Soul” by Songs: Ohia from Nor Cease Thou Never Now… 7”
- 7th Street Wonderland
- Magnolia Electric Co.
- Western Vinyl 7"
“7th Street Wonderland” by Songs: Ohia from Western Vinyl 7”
You can now stream every official release from Jason Molina at http://live.magnoliaelectricco.com/
Including difficult to find post-Megaupload takedown gems like Nor Cease Thou Never Now... 7” (the first Songs: Ohia release on the Drag City imprint Palace Records), One Pronunciation of Glory 7”, and Western Vinyl 7”.
If you need an introduction to Molina’s music go put the “Nashville Moon” disc from the Sojourner box set on repeat. It’s Molina at his most perfect mix of laid back and vulnerable, tearing through the classics with the Magnolia Electric Company and Steve Albini at the boards.
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has—or ever will have—something inside that is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.
A Jason Molina who was broadly embraced… wouldn’t have been Molina at all.
I loved hearing Jason Molina sing. He was a genius at turning a phrase and making it into something more than the words in it. Jason was almost supernaturally prolific, and several times I watched him write an album’s worth of songs in a weekend, recording them on the spot. Much of his recorded output with Magnolia Electric Co is the evidence of him and the band playing his songs for the very first time. It’s amazing, really, that it was any good at all, much less so touching and fully realized
“No Moon on the Water” by Jason Molina from No Moon on the Water 7”
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I’m always amazed at Molina’s versatility. This is a sad, slow burn, singer-songwriter cut.
Hear what he does with the full Magnolia Electric Co. band on the Sojourner Box Set version: http://open.spotify.com/track/4MN2pzatLiIcAuSUtShj1E
“Soul” by Songs: Ohia from Nor Cease Thou Never Now… 7”
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My all-time favorite track from Jason Molina’s first single, on Palace Records.
I tell all my friends
that I’m bound for heaven
and if it ain’t so,
you can’t blame me for livin’
I know what it’s like
and it’s worth this misfortune;
I know what it’s like
on the other side.
“Hammer Down” by Magnolia Electric Co. from Sojourner Box Set
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I think the stars are just the neon lights / Shining through the dance floor / Of heaven on a Saturday night / And I saw the light, I saw the light.
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Poster design for Cains & Abels show by Mark Neigh. 2010. (Photos © David C Sampson)
Poster designs for the 12th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference hosted by DePaul University.
Event posters by Mark Neigh. 2010.
Portfolio site showcasing the photography of Chicago photographer David C. Sampson.
Website by Mark Neigh. 2009.
Movie Class is an ethnographic film about the exercise of power in an after-school program whose ostensible mission is to teach kids how to make movies. It is a theory and report on the unintentionally dangerous ways an unexamined promotion of meritocracy can be used as a tool for authoritarianism. Rhetorically the film attempts to problemitize the American Dream that you can be whatever you want to be.
An Ethnographic Film by Mark Neigh. 2008.
Website for Chicago rock ‘n’ roll band Cains & Abels.
Band Website by Mark Neigh. 2009.
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I'm a Digital Strategist at Masterworks, helping non-profits raise funds through digital channels.
My education is in communication, emphasizing new media and video production. I completed a Masters in New Media Studies from DePaul University in June 2009.
Vast and grand, monumental is my blog. I've also posted some stuff I've been working on and interesting things on the Web is just a feed of my delicious links.
