Listening to music from high school is grand tonic for my tired heart. I spent a morning last week listening to “When I Woke” and set myself to the past.
Deer Valley, a YMCA family camp, and hearing the album for the first time. It was exotic and clearly something all the college-kid [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘music’
6 October 2008
Of nostalgia and Rusted Root
28 September 2008
A list of small pleasures
1. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Seeing as how it’s the school year again, my reading brain has returned to a state of near collapse. To counter this effect I am rereading The Great Gatsby, which is beautiful but does not force me inexorably toward the end, because I already know the [...]
28 April 2008
evil music
I left the house today to learn about my new job assignment. Today is one of the april days referred to in the childhood ditty, and remarkably crappy. While doing the dishes, I decided to put on Kiss It Goodbye’s only lp, called She loves me, She loves me not…. Understand that when I first [...]
29 January 2008
oh and
We went to see Neko Case on Friday night in Tarrytown. Eric Bachmann opened for her. It was an excellent show and just reaffirmed my giant heart for Neko Case, the fact of which made Sarah feel less like a spazz. Which, admittedly, was a good reason for me not to have told her…
The theater [...]
28 January 2008
because i haven’t been able to figure out how to write about anything recently
In a seasonally-unprecedented move (at least for a good long time), I have been digging me some songs–not compositions, not improvisations–actual, honest-to-goodness songs. Lots of good old Dischord bands, Smart Went Crazy, Lungfish, Shudder to Think as well as the golden age of mid-90s midwest indie rock–Rodan, June of 44, you know, that sort of [...]
6 January 2008
new year. new things.
First blog post of the year–it’s hard to believe that we’ve been doing this thing (at times painfully sporadically) for a year or so. Dang. It has been quite a ride the last couple of months: we have gotten a little bit used to sarah teaching and made our peace with being truly adult with [...]
11 October 2007
midway through a prolonged moment
Involving the South as an entity and just listening, all John Cage-like. I don’t know how true the story is, but as i understand it, as his life went on, Cage stopped listening to recorded music, choosing rather to sit and listen with his windows open to the world as it sped and roared and [...]
27 September 2007
alone time = attempts at productivity
This is, of course, after a good hour plus of watching bonus features on dvds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gilmore Girls. I just finished watching the last season of Buffy for the second time (i’m only three or four behind Sarah b), and the sixth season of GG is on loan, so i’m [...]
16 September 2007
sunday afternoon in the attic
It was a successful day, i think, based on the fact that we were in and out of the city by 1 p.m. Brunch with a Hopkins friend, and home to get things done. I’ve got an excellent first draft of a poem (the first in quite a while), which stems from my being pissed [...]
1 August 2007
Nick, Jr. goes Awesome
Hello to all! How has it been going! I have been slightly underslept for a long enough time that I’m considering just drinking tons of caffeine over the course of the entire day (as opposed to stopping before noon as per my rule for moderating caffeine intake) so as to be slightly high and better [...]
