Jake Armerding
Jake Armerding

Jake Armerding is the author of five albums of original music, along with a short-form recording as a member of his alter-ego instrumental ensemble, The Fretful Porcupine.
After joining a farm CSA in 2009, he adopted the idea for his own projects, and launched Community Supported Art in late 2011.
He lives in Boston.

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"Music is a moral law." --Plato

I love music because it can’t be conquered.  No one will ever get to the end of music, solve it or master it, although it can be dumbed down. I love music because it is only occasionally black and white.  It deigns to be black and white only because it represents all colors, and black […]

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There's Nothing Finer Than a Fedders

It is brown. It is ugly. It is absurdly heavy. I don’t know when it was manufactured, but when was the last time you saw a brown air conditioner, the late 1980s? If it were a car, it would be a Ford Crown Victoria station wagon, or just something big, heavy and unpredictable.

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Cheap Vertigo

On the plane ride home, I had a hard time adhering to my mandate not to watch bad movies. (I had already watched all the good ones.) I got through on a technicality — I watched a TV show instead. The show I watched, in all its Looney-Tuned glory, was a Road Runner cartoon.

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