Bernie Brooks

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“The oud sounds too bassy,” the sexagenarian oudist says, nodding towards Moe, one of the founders of Dearborn, Michigan’s premier – possibly only? – noise rock outfit, Prostitute. “Too bassy?”, Moe echoes back, getting up from his chair to have a look, to maybe provide some assistance. The oudist is warm and grandfatherly, and probably is someone’s grandfather. “I don’t know what to do.

Last week I had a spill. And when I say, ‘had a spill’, I mean I fell down hard. Fell in a way that I imagine the elderly fall, like a grain silo toppling over, with no hope for any sort of damage mitigation. As far as glimpses into the not-so-distant future (when I will no longer have the luxury of time and semi-resilient bones) go, it kinda sucked. It’s funny, though.