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Jeremy Clive Huggins

Jeremy Clive Huggins has a wife (Rachel), a son (Hiro), and a station wagon (Marcy). He likes movies, literary nonfiction, interior design, salvaging, and wordplay, but, to pay the bills, he teaches. He has adopted, as literary models, John McPhee, Thomas Lynch, and Walter Wangerin. He believes that Memphis is the BBQ capital of the world. Three of his heroes: Wade Bradshaw, Margie Haack, Will Shortz.

Filling life with only nice people

Robots want, but don't demand, to be loved by you.

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Jeremy Clive Huggins Jun 18, 2010

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The child responds gleefully

I’m not sure what’s gotten into me. I like the music of Glee, and I don’t know why.

Jeremy Clive Huggins Feb 26, 2010

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Hero Worship

I forget the number of times I’ve read and heard people—from adolescent misfits to suburban housewives to Reformed pastors—describe listening to Sigur Rós as a religious experience or as worshipful.

Jeremy Clive Huggins Nov 13, 2009

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My halfway house

Here is my confession: I’ve found a “pop” artist who bridges my elitist preferences with the rest of the culture to which I belong.

Jeremy Clive Huggins Aug 21, 2009

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Terrified by classical music, until…

The band Balmorhea (pronounced bal-more-ay, named after a town of 500 in southwest Texas) has been, for me, an emotionally corrective musical experience.

Jeremy Clive Huggins May 29, 2009

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DIY homesick blues: The music of Ben Cooper

Radical Face epitomizes for me what’s good about so much small- (or no-) label music right now: the appropriation of non-traditional instrumentation, layering, thickness, the use of technology to embolden a DIY aesthetic, the redemption of “found” sounds.

Jeremy Clive Huggins May 30, 2008

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Kelley McRae: speaking truly

Kelley McRae, like me and you and everyone I know, makes a daily commute through joy, despair, gratitude, doubt, hope, fear, shame, and the rest.