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Mack Hayden

North of the Equator and South of the Sun

I wasn't good at sports so now I like ideas.

Interests: Music, Film, Politics, Philosophy, Theology, Literature, Bygone Times, Writing

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Why I Walked On Boogie Nights

Television stands in, at best, as a substitute teacher mildly aware of the cinematic curriculum. It’s the big screen films are made for. The best movies suggest an enormity of plot, a largeness of their characters, demanding nothing less than a screen as long as a school bus to contain... Continue reading

Posted Apr 23, 2012 at AfterWord

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Can't Hardly Wait?

This would make a believer out of anyone. Stream this sucker, you don't have to break any laws or anything! James Mercer is back at the helm, so dock at the Port of Morrow. Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2012 at AfterWord

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Real Estate makes nostalgia a genre in and of itself. Days lets you pine in it and through it; it's a new memory and a window through which you can call back any old time you please. Kodak moments all around. Continue reading

Posted Mar 12, 2012 at AfterWord

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Look Forward to This

The new album's golden. Continue reading

Posted Mar 12, 2012 at AfterWord

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There are unpardonable vices and then there’s reading peripheral Salinger before you even touch Catcher in the Rye. I fully admit woeful ignorance of Holden Caulfield’s angst and wanderings. Up until now, I’ve spent a perfect day with bananafish and that’s it. I hit my roaring twenties in a matter... Continue reading

Posted Mar 10, 2012 at AfterWord

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For those days when you want your Springsteen served up with a side of Sonic Youth. Continue reading

Posted Mar 10, 2012 at AfterWord

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Mack Hayden is now following bookfox

Mar 2, 2012

The modern American writers and I have avoided each other's sideways gazes until quite recently. What I have found in their output has delighted and challenged me in all the ways literature can and should. One cannot help but see the saga of the Trasks and the Hamiltons as anything... Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2012 at AfterWord

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The voices of the dead resonate like the bass and drums of a jazz quartet. They suggest and murmur, they keep it all in time. Elie Wiesel said that "poets exist so that the dead may vote" and so they do. They cast their ballots and know they can't succeed.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 22, 2012 at AfterWord

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Mack Hayden is now following Steve Martin

Jan 20, 2012

You Can't Quarantine the Past (Part Eight)

Lyrically, Malkmus is just as scatterbrained as his music would suggest. Though there may be the occasional rhyme, reason is all but incinerated. His vocabulary is more attuned to the absurd than anyone else in his field. Indie rock takes its cues from T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound’s fight in... Continue reading

Posted Jan 20, 2012 at AfterWord

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You Can't Quarantine the Past (Part Seven)

People throw overproduced on to Terror Twilight like they're executing criminal justice. The last person who said this was Pavement's finest hour in the town square of Pretentia was probably Piltdown Man. There are worse offenses certainly. Proclaiming your undying love for this swan song is a far cry from... Continue reading

Posted Jan 18, 2012 at AfterWord

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A Worthy Criticism

"For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2012 at AfterWord

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You Can't Quarantine the Past (Part 6)

I'll come out and say I'm biased. This one's the favorite. You can throw any of the other pillars of early alternative rock at me (The Smiths, R.E.M., etc.) and I'll say the early years were not toppable. There's something beautiful about a band with no sense of traditional production... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2012 at AfterWord

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You Can't Quarantine the Past (Part 5)

Purists, this is your stop. For the slightly pretentious Malkmusian, Wowee Zowee was the last step before the boys hopped the bus to Sellout Central. I would have to agree that the chaos becomes more ordered from here on out and if that's all that you were staying for than... Continue reading

Posted Jan 12, 2012 at AfterWord

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You Can't Quarantine the Past (Part 4)

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is the one to be remembered. Pavement had lost some of the fuzz of their earlier b-sides and Slanted to put out an evolved, step-on-forward album that is only criticized by the unwise. Praise God that hardly anyone's that stupid. The tension it presents, the line... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2012 at AfterWord

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You Can't Quarantine the Past (Part 3)

On debut albums, indie bands have free range to express themselves as loud and proud as they please. Slanted & Enchanted is the void and God moving over the face of the deep. It's Malkmus calling out the beginnings of his world and constructing the base forms of life out... Continue reading

Posted Jan 6, 2012 at AfterWord

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Mack Hayden is now following Colin Beavan aka No Impact Man

Jan 5, 2012

Mack Hayden is now following Steve McCoy

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Mack Hayden is now following I Listen To Everything (by Diana Miller)

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Mack Hayden is now following MetroDad

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