James Chance won the inaugural PoYI/Reynolds Journalism Institute Emerging Vision Incentive award with his project documenting the intriguing cemetery-dwelling culture in Manila’s North Cemetery.
OTIS – The Lovesick Plane Crash Victim: A Mystery
Grace Marks compares two very different Otis Redding recordings of the song “Just One More Day”, one from the recently released “Live on the Sunset Strip”, and speculates on Otis’ seemingly passionate love life.
OHNO KAZOU – You will be missed.
A dance legend passes away, and takes an art form with him. Butoh legend Ohno Kazou passes away at age 103.
ROWLAND S. HOWARD – Dead at 50
Rowland S Howard, contributor to influential bands The Birthday Party, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls, The Bad Seeds and Einsturzende Neubauten as well as a collaborator with musicians like Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Nikki Sudden and Henry Rollins, is dead at the age of 50 while waiting for a liver transplant. RIP.
DEATH MAY BE YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT – Morbid Call and Response Xmas Sermons
And today’s happy holiday thoughts are, “DEATH MAY BE YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT” by the Rev. A. W. Nix and “WILL THE COFFIN BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS?” by the Rev. J.M. Gates. Take a listen here…
