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first post meaningfully will be on jan 6 and includes some book news if you ve enjoyed any of my books or legacy blog posts i d appreciate you signing up interacting and helping spread the word if you are so inclined thanks daniel posted by daniel waters at 10 32 am no comments monday august 4 2025 aural history limited time offer to celebrate the new print edition of aural history the geniuses at omz press are offering a discount on the ebook edition half off 2 99 while supplies last posted by daniel waters at 3 24 pm no comments thursday july 31 2025 aural history from omz press first time in physical print for the new edition you can order from amazon here posted by daniel waters at 7 25 am no comments monday july 12 2021 viewpoint this is one of my favorite photos that i ve ever taken i don t really know why it should have such an emotional impact on me but i feel if i stare at it long enough all will be revealed the photo was taken on my cell phone and is uncropped unedited and unfiltered right through my car windshield in the rain i d gone out to take some post thunderstorm photos of an abandoned theater a couple miles from my house hoping to get a neon electric sky behind the theater those photos came out okay with some nice yellows but not the vibrant purples and pinks i d been hoping for like in this photo i took a few weeks ago in savannah two people in my family are talented photographers one active the other let their talent fade which might be one of the great reversible tragedies of their life i don t have their eye or skill but every so often i catch something that stirs my spirit posted by daniel waters at 1 51 pm 4 comments labels art rain savannah sunset sunday may 31 2020 a brief reflection on my privilege i feel like the country i love is bleeding out words are poor bandages but still i am compelled to write and so i offer this brief reflection on privilege in the hopes it may lead others to similarly reflect i was stopped by the police twice on a walk from the strip mall where i d eaten lunch back to the hotel where i was staying for a business trip the stops occurred just a few weeks before covid 19 shut down most of the country in a commercial sector filled with upscale strip malls chain stores and mid priced business class hotels like the one where i was staying i was wearing a gray hoodie jeans and gray sneakers i was on the sidewalk the walk was maybe a block long point to point i was happy i d found a local falafel place with comfortable seating so i was able to write a few pages while enjoying my food and when i left i popped my earbuds in and was listening to music on an ipod as old as my children i may have even been singing as i strolled down the sidewalk and then the first policeman stopped me he pulled his cruiser over to the shoulder of the road and was smiling when he got out of the car he was still smiling while he waited patiently for me to take out my earbuds so i could hear him are you joe he asked no i told him supposing i did look a little suspicious in my hoodie the little yellow life is good logo over my heart would have been hard to read from a distance i m not joe i m dan waters okay he said and then he got back in his cruiser i watched him drive away i hadn t felt afraid or even irritated if anything i felt amused that saying i m not joe was enough to send him on his way it was like i d cast dispel policemen with that short incantation i was singing again in moments i was approaching the stoplight at the intersection of the hotel access road no more than a minute later when i spotted the second cruiser it was waiting on the other side of the red light and somehow looked expectant even before the light turned green and before the cruiser s flashers came on i knew this other vehicle was also going to stop me i proactively removed my earbuds sure enough lights still flashing the cruiser rolled to an abrupt stop on the shoulder in front of me this time two policemen got out one the driver had his hand on the holster at his back hip i still was not afraid unnerved maybe but i really didn t think his gun was going to leave the holster hey there he said smiling i thought it was a we gotcha kind of smile smirky hi i replied no fear i m still not joe your colleague stopped me down the road just a moment ago he looked at his partner eyes narrowing as he tried to get that cop telepathy going would it help if i gave you my drivers license i said hoping to cut through the confusion the offer surprised him just a little i m staying at the hampton down this street it might he said and his hand came off his hip and he dropped the smirk exchanging it for a pleasant smile i m really sorry for the hassle no worries i replied because truly there weren t any i gave him my license he glanced at it and gave it back he apologized a second time and before driving away he turned to his partner and said the guy we re looking for looks exactly like him i thought it was a funny thing to say because the cop and i looked similar we were both white and bald he was a few years younger than me and a bit bigger swole my son might say but it would be hard for a casual witness to differentiate us in a line up i walked the short distance back to the hotel thinking primarily about two questions questions i d be turning over in my head the rest of the day and on into night as i waited for the sleep that so often eludes me when i m on the road for business the questions still haunt me how would i have felt in and after that situation if i had been a person of color would that situation had even gone the same way if i had been a person of color despite being confronted by the police twice in five minutes i did not have a single moment of doubt where i thought that maybe just maybe things wouldn t go my way i was abundantly certain the confusion would be cleared up with a few words and an id card i never thought the police would find my earbuds my hoodie or my general demeanor disrespectful i never thought speaking to them before being asked a question would be a strike against me and i never once thought that the brief exchange around a mistaken identity or false accusation would end with me in handcuffs or with a knee on my neck not everyone in our country has the freedom the privilege to be that confident and fearless in interactions with the police innocence is not enough by the way the fact that i wasn t joe alone wasn t enough to ensure i could speak freely and act under the assumption there could be no possible negative repercussions for my actions even though i apparently was a dead ringer for this miscreant joe in the first instance all i had to do was boldly declare i was not joe and the encounter was over does it work the same way for everyone is a simple declaration of innocence without any tangible proof all that is needed to peaceably end confrontations with the police not for everyone it seems over the next few hours as i replayed the event in my mind i realized that i d stepped toward the second cruiser before the police had fully exited their vehicle could that have been construed as a hostile approach were my hands visible did my smile appear friendly or insolent did i reach for my back pocket where i had my wallet not a gun too quickly it doesn t take a narrative genius to imagine several different outcomes for these two interactions no creativity is required to paint a tragic ending when society has provided plenty of them in similar situations change mine and joe s ethnicity and perhaps the story gets told in exactly the same manner but probably not is it fair to say that of the many benefits i enjoy as a middle aged white man one of them is the benefit of doubt i have fifty years on the planet enjoying that benefit that confidence that lack of fear my childhood in the seventies my adolescence and young adulthood in the eighties my life here in 2020 are likely to have been very very different than another person s society and culture spent those decades teaching me not to be afraid society and culture taught many other people over the same time period that they have every reason to be afraid privilege results in many things but one of the most prevalent and most polarizing for people who don t take the time to try to understand it is the ability to move and interact in society without fear the realization that many many people we live love work and interact with every day do not enjoy that very basic freedom should be both sobering and actually terrifying to all of us the reality that the freedoms we consider to be inalienable rights are routinely denied to people simply because of who they are flies in the face of the things we think we believe in and stand for until we live in a world where people can live without that fear we live in a broken world in the end i was grateful i was stopped by twice by the police that day it led me to think deeply about a disease our society must cure it led me to have more empathy for those who don t have the freedoms i enjoy empathy is a path to understanding and understanding is a path to action but then again it is my privilege to be grateful all i had to do was say my name posted by daniel waters at 3 00 pm no comments labels privilege travel friday december 27 2019 my favorite music of 2019 here s my favorite new releases of 2019 if you are suitably intrigued by any of my choices or the sounds they lead you to do the world a favor and purchase music and merch in a manner that would most benefit the artist the rosedales stereoghost long awaited new release from one of the finest horrorpunk bands ever to record horrorpunk may be a bit of a misnomer though as the rosedales unique blend of music includes shades of rock rockabilly goth metal and doo wop for an utterly unique and ofttimes haunting sound if any of the tracks here excite you buy their entire output as they haven t released a single disappointing track sin theta sin theta incredibly versatile debut ep from a band with limitless potential i wrote about them last year when i included their demo one song on my best of list last year one of the only bands i can think of opeth being another who is skilled enough to super charge your adrenaline or lull you into a state of harmonic relaxation sometimes within the same song one of those rare bands where all of the components excel both individually and collectively a must listen for those with even a passing interest in metal kristeen young the subset years ago i bought her whole catalog after seeing her perform once and i ve bought every release the day it came out since this one may be her best and it shows off both the full dynamic range of her beautiful voice as well as the bottomless depth of her lyrical ability i ve spun it a dozen times and still get chills with each subsequent listen everyday subtraction might be my favorite song in a year that i found overflowing with great cuts ray alder what the water wants debut solo album from current fates warning vocalist immensely affecting and powerful as fates warning especially the alder years was the soundtrack of my college years sharp eyes can spot me and my voluminous beautiful blond hair at the front left of the stage here ray s voice affects me mentally and spiritually arch matheos winter ethereal i was turned on to fates warning thanks dan after john arch had already left the band but the first three albums he recorded with them are among my favorites not only in the fates oeuvre but in my entire collection i love that he periodically rejoins forces with fates mainman jim mattheos and i love that winter ethereal is one of their strongest collaborations yet great year for fates fans the specials encore very strong album as socially revalent as any of their earlier material and just as groove worthy deluxe edition includes some fantastic live tracks of earlier material ironbunny tettsui no alternative apparently there is a great deal going on currently on the heavy metal scene than babymetal and i will be investigating that scene deeply in 2020 this was one of the first bands i became interested in featuring precise riff heavy shredding provided by an armor clad cyborg and gorgeous harmony vocals from a trio of young women the ep also features a number of world class guest shredders ride this is not a safe place no one was happier than i was when ride reunited to produce 2017 s weather diaries and i think this is not a safe place is even better than that stellar release v a ready or not soundtrack i saw more films in the theater in 2019 than any year since the mid nineties when i was an assistant manager in a theater the title cut alone makes this a worthy listen especially if you read or write horror stories volbeat rewind replay rebound a very solid and generous offering from one of my favorite metal bands volbeat once again aren t afraid to throw in some surprises like the surf usic inflected sorry bag of bones my favorite cut alongside leviathan baroness gold and gray intricate and accomplished new addition to the baroness color palette hawkwind all aboard the skylark somehow i have 46 hawkwind albums in my itunes plus another six records i haven t yet converted to mp3 plus at least a couple dozen spin off and hawkwind related solo projects unless you count motorhead as well then the number is well over a hundred so obviously i like hawkwind this is my favorite of theirs released in this decade the perfect vehicle when i need to escape to outer space as i so often do death angel humanicide i ve always thought the big four of thrash designation for slayer anthrax metallica and megadeth ought to be amended to the big five with death angel being the fifth i get it they don t sell as much but the quality of their catalog comes close to the best releases of the previous four and eclipses their worst releases humanicide is one of their best releases and managed to get nominated for a grammy cheap trick are you ready live 12 31 1979 my love of cheap trick is well documented and so i was thrilled to get this killer live set a november rsd release lana del rey norman f ing rockwell more songs of californian disaffection lana seems to get her own self projected vibe even more right on her newer release someday i hope to repeat my drive along the pch playing this at twilight to an off brand hotel i have never been to and may never leave the dickies i dig go go girls the dreaded pigasaurus blink and you missed it but available on itunes rsd single release from o g california punks pigasaurus especially could be dropped in as a bonus cut on dawn of the dickies and it would fit right in magic circle departed souls brand new old school metal from a boston based band i just bought it this week but was excited enough to buy their previous two albums riffy and deep with songs that are accessible enough to seem familiar but often branch out it unpredictable but sonically pleasing ways 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