Archive for June, 2008
“No reason”
Does anyone remember why Clarissa Dalloway rejects Peter? I remember she marries Peter in part because “here was one room; here another” but I don’t recall the rejection scene (if we see it) or her motivation at that time. Richard Buckner’s most-written-about album is called Devotion and Doubt. (My favorite is Dents and Shells [see [...]
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File under pieces I wish I’d done: Here & Now traces the lineage of the new standard “Wagon Wheel,” and smartly enough interviews the area’s premier folk-bluegrass mandolin player. (Not to be confused with the area’s premier bluegrass mandolin player… don’t get me started.) Old Crow Medicine Show’s coming to town in Sept. playing a [...]
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Today I developed conditioned taste aversion to a messageboard. Someone posted a particularly gruesome photo last night. It involves fingertips and things that don’t belong thereon. I’d seen the picture before, but this time I truly got queasy. The obviously Photoshopped image’s mysterious power—it creeps out almost everyone I’ve shown it to—led me to email [...]
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Missed announcing Somerville’s 7/4 festivities in the paper because silly me assumed they’d be, you know, on or around July 4. City press release: LARGEST-EVER INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION SET FOR THURS., JUNE 26th Celebration Beginning at 6:30 pm Includes Musical, Dance Performances, Fireworks Display at 9 pm WHAT: City of Somerville’s fifth annual Independence Day [...]
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This isn’t complaining; this is so I don’t keep forgetting to round up the gear. – pie dish (10/07) – 9″x13″ Pyrex dish with blue silicone lid (6/08) – Bundt pan (?) – apron (5/08) – Diane di Prima’s memoir (2?/08) – Penn. Dutch cookbook, but that I won’t forget about (5/08) – smallish plastic [...]
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at TTs. 1- Jonathan Meiburg has an insanely ethereal-yet-gutsy-killer voice, truly a God-given voice. 2- When his voice toughens up he takes on this giant-in-Twin-Peaks unearthly distant hard stare. It’s quite disturbing. Right, and yeah, okay, sure, he and the (woman) bass player are both serious babes. 3- <3 the new album. 4- Carter Tanton [...]
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