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Peter Gabriel played Austin earlier this week. I wanted to see the show, as he's one of my favorite performers who I've yet to see live, but the stars did not align for me. Bummer. So instead I'll share the song of his that I love above all others "Shock the Monkey." My freshman year in college I dressed up as the "tribal" Peter from the video. I looked amazing with full face paint. Sadly, absolutely nobody knew what I was supposed to be. Typical.

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It seems the horror never ends. For the past several years, we've suffered a non-stop parade of police officers killing unarmed African Americans. It's an epidemic, and shows no sign of abating despite the intense and widespread societal awareness. Jonathan Price of Wolfe City, Texas, is the latest victim to add to the tally. Will his murderer be let off because he happens to be a police officer like so many others? I'm not holding my breath. It can't help but bring to mind Peter Gabriel's "Biko," a song from another era about police brutality and systemic racism in another country, but as Gabriel so succinctly phrases it, "The outside world is black and white with only one color dead."

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Since everyone seems to be going nuts over David Bowie's new album today, I'm going to be contrarian by going with a different British rock pioneer who reinvented himself multiple times with engrossing yet often inscrutable music. And his videos, wow. Yes, it's time for Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers."

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