There is\u00a0 something about being born in a blizzard in the wrong corner of a Midwestern state.\u00a0 Resilience is assured.\u00a0 Appetite too.\u00a0 For us, that appetite is primarily for soulful art rather than for soul food.\u00a0 Cycling may add to the appetite.\u00a0 We are ravenous for all good music, books, films, art, poetry, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Our appetites have not been dulled, though we are old-ish and not getting any younger (though neither, with any luck, are you).\u00a0 We have heard a few bands, read a few books, rode a few roads, and mulled a few museums over a fair amount of time.\u00a0 And we have spent dog-years of energy to keep current with the good music, etc., that has evolved since our youth.\u00a0 While many ears, hearts and minds did shut down over time, and turned off their turntables when the \u201cwar was won\u201d or upon the achievement of some other milestone (marriages, kids, jobs), we could not get the monkeys off our backs.\u00a0 We remain junkies trying to match, and hopefully raise, earlier art highs.\u00a0 And if we find some new art that other oldsters might like, or if we recall some worthy ancient track that you youngsters may not know, we will pass it along.\u00a0 And as will become painfully obvious:\u00a0 we are not above citing scant scintillas of truth, drawing ridiculous inferences, lodging illogical laments or arriving at ill-conceived conclusions to impart a point.\u00a0 We will walk the wire without a net to convey some passion, and you may not agree with us.\u00a0 Please know though that these are in fact life and death matters to us, and so there is no room for the mediocre or the mundane.\u00a0 We hope you glean some new art or high.<\/p>\n
Lefort, you wonder?\u00a0 It’s a maiden name and an homage to a side of our family that fielded the fields and days with style, albeit with some high drama and intermittently catastrophic acts.\u00a0 To sum up:\u00a0 they were human beings that lived this pros-and-cons life on earth.\u00a0 And we remain very fond of them.<\/p>\n
And finally, The Lefort Report is an homage of sorts to two musical brothers who left too soon, Kenny Harbaugh and Matt Steele.\u00a0 Kenny and Lefort were similarly aged and shared an almost identical music history (minus Harbaugh’s inexplicable infatuation with the band “The Birthday Party”:-)) and love of cycling.\u00a0 And Matt and Lefort shared musical appreciation and appreciation for that which is above.\u00a0 Both are deeply missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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