Molina speaks biography
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Conversation by Molina was a Huge Hit
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Reggie Thompson
The Paw Print
Rapper and spoken word poet, Molina visited the Adams State campus on September 20th in what he would call a “conversation” held in Carson Auditorium.
In his poems, Molina speaks truthfully on today’s culture, including societal divisions, education, politics, dreams, activism, and futurism while sharing his experiences with friendships, love, and childhood memories. He passionately performed such workings “Being Brown,” where he exemplified pride in his heritage and upbringing that centered around hard work, as well as “Brown Is Beautiful,” that expanded beyond pride in Mexican culture into that of minorities as a whole.
One idea he focused on was the concept behind his new collection of poetry called “Build 2020 Manifesto.” Here, he relays the claim that within the next 10 years, this society will undergo 100 years worth of change.
In his website biography Molina said that “Things are shifting culturally, socially, politically, economically and environmentally. People feel this transition and the anxiety associated with the rapidly shifting landscape. How do we keep up, mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, with such a rapid pace of social change?”
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Review
The anecdotal details from Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost are what ring most vividly, exposing a side of Molina that rarely came through in his melancholic music.... Riding with the Ghost also enriches his songs, illuminating their characters in their own words and supplying context to the places they were set. ― MTV
Among Riding with the Ghost’s most memorable passages are instances of Molina’s fandom, from his unconditional love for Sade and his evangelizing of Kraftwerk to Damien Jurado, to his edict to bandmates to study Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush. Molina’s passion rings through these pages, nowhere more distinctly than in the retelling of the fateful interaction that launched his career while studying at Oberlin College (where he was known as 'Sparky'). ― Pitchfork Media Inc.
Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost delves into each period of the artist’s life: from his first high school punk band Chronic Insanity, to his last days with heralded alt-country act Magnolia Electric Co., and the numerous iterations of his beloved folk-leaning band Songs: Ohia, as well as solo material and unreleased demos unkown to fans. It’s a fascinating look at one of the last pre-internet indie successes and the underground music scene that supported his meteoric rise. The
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