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Mark Lint’s PEL Network Holiday Party 2020: Merry Chatting and Songs

December 24, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Join the office Christmas party at the PEL network. The hired band is Mark Lint’s Dry Folk, playing their entire album, and the guests are considerate enough to only talk between the songs. BYOB! Mark holds mini conversations on philosophy, art, and life with all the PEL and PMP co-hosts, plus special guests Ken Stringfellow (a guy who played with REM and Big Star also sang  Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: Run Away

February 1, 2015 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Listen to Run Away (or right-click/shift-click this link to download). I've previously written about this song, and how I wrote it when I was 16, and it was the first song of mine that was any good, and we performed it at the high school variety show. The "final" recording version from that came out in 1989 (listen to it here). But I couldn't help but think something had  Continue Reading …

Episode 100: Plato’s Symposium Live Celebration!

August 15, 2014 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Mark, Seth, Wes, Dylan, and Philosophy Bro walk a live audience through Plato's dialogue about love, sex, self-improvement, and ancient Greek pederasty. You can also choose to watch this on video. Is love just a feeling, or does it make the world go 'round? Does love make you better, or make you weak? What's the difference between good love and bad love (and is any love  Continue Reading …

Episode 100: Plato’s Symposium Live Celebration!

August 15, 2014 by Mark Linsenmayer 21 Comments

Mark, Seth, Wes, Dylan, and Philosophy Bro walk a live audience through Plato's dialogue about love, sex, self-improvement, and ancient Greek pederasty. You can also choose to watch this on video. Is love just a feeling, or does it make the world go 'round? Does love make you better, or make you weak? What's the difference between good love and bad love (and is any love  Continue Reading …

Most of Mark’s Albums

January 1, 2006 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

The highlighted song here is "We Who Have Escaped," the final New People recording, completed for ep. 83. First of all, check out Mark's web site for nearly every song I've recorded that's not on an album, including those for most of the podcast episodes. If you enjoy it, please send that link around to your friends, or pick a song you like and post the link to that on your  Continue Reading …

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