Back in the early 1990s, when I was absolutely crazy for American Music Club, there was another band that was doing very similar work, Codeine, which I totally missed. It’s probably because AMC is from San Francisco and Codeine was a New York City band. Also, AMC has a sense of humor about its despair that is mostly missing from Codeine. Still, that band is totally amazing.
Sadly, Codeine broke up in 1994 and never really got back together. So there isn’t much in the way of live performances of them on line. They did briefly get back together in 2012. And the following video is from that tour. It is one of those shaky camera phones videos, but the sound isn’t too bad. They are performing “Tom” off their third and final album, The White Birch. Even better, their entire first album, Frigid Stars, is available on YouTube. Check it out!
Frank,
No Bush fan here but I think the Baltimore City public schools do get over $15,000 per student.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/blog/bal-maryland-per-pupil-spending-2013-20150111-htmlstory.html
I think you meant to post this on a different article. The number is accurate but deceptive. According to Think Progress, “Baltimore’s school funding gets shared with charters; traditional public schools will get just $5,336 per student next year. Average amounts also obscure the fact that school districts usually spend more on wealthy students and white students than on poor and black ones.”
A thing most people don’t know, but it’s a big problem, is that most public schools all over the country are funded by property tax levies. It’s completely separate and unequal. The rich suburbs get the best schools — and, possibly the most important factor in where people choose to live (those that have the income to choose where they live) is how good the local schools are. So the problem reinforces itself. It’s a dang shame and really hard to fix.