It's hard to part from a first love. And by this I mean Atom Heart Mother. Every time I think, "You know, it's been a while. Let's stick it in. I forgot how silence in the studio is followed by the choral nonsense chant…

I've often jested that the current tribal literary theories, all contingent on humanity's ability and authority to define for itself what it is (most notably in cases of sex and gender) will pass away some day--just as t…