Playing my late and lamented Suzuki OmniChord MIDI autoharp through a pile of effects pedals at The Lab in Chicago, backing Katherine Chronis. I borrowed the amp from Danny Blas
Archive for July, 2009
I’ve spent eh past year unable to write a dear friend’s obituary, so it’s no surprise I can’t write anything cogent about the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
It’s forty years later. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be living on the moon.
Put it in perspective: Columbus took longer to get to the Americas. He lost more men and ships on the way. 40 years after Columbus, the europeans had colonized the New World. Hell, 40 years after Columbus and the world was eating the foodstuffs he brought back and telling themselves they’d been doing so for 2000 years.
40 years after Apollo and the Russians and Chinese have viable Spacec programs. We don’t.
40 years after Apollo 11. 37 years after Apollo 17, the last humans to walk on the moon. It’s somehow fitting that we lost the footage of the moon landing. And that the Space Shuttle will retire in September 2010 with no replacement. I’ll leave out my usual political screed, but it’s so fucking sad.
