Matt Beck

Matt Beck is a sometime poet, writer and kultur-blogger living in Northern California.

Brian Eno and Discreet Music

Music & Performing Arts

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February 27, 2009

Brian Eno is enough of a modern music legend that it can be difficult to see around him. One can choose any number of his legacies to consider.

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So Much to Read:
Updike, Angstrom and Procrastination

Literature

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January 30, 2009

John UpdikeMarch 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009 I can’t claim to be John Updike’s biggest fan. I’ve only read a couple of his books. But I was perturbed to learn of his death this past Tuesday. For this California boy, he represented the leather-patch-on-the-tweed-jacket kind of writer – a WASPy New Englander who snapped [...]

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