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 ‘the real world’
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 [...]
23 March 2008
rocking the wire
It starts with The Wire. After months (years?) of hearing tell of the virtues of this tv show that I’ve never seen, as I haven’t had HBO in any house in which I’ve lived since I left my parents’ house many years ago, it finally managed its way to the top of our Netflix queue [...]
23 March 2008
Re: Your Most recent movie recommendation
Dear Dad,
In the midst of the chaos that has been the past couple weeks of my life, Jeff and I took a few hours out of our limited entertainment schedule to watch “Princess Raccoon.” If we hadn’t already decided that we were going to watch it in two shifts (because I fall asleep after one [...]
4 March 2008
Quality Review impending . . .
Just a quick note to say that I’ve got things in the hopper that I really want to have time to write about. I’ve got something simmering in the back of my mind about The Anatomy of Disgust, an article I read in Harper’s about the water-treatment facilities buried below New York City, and Two [...]
10 February 2008
It’s hard to be a woman.
Now, this is not a politics blog. But I’m finding it very hard to stay away from politics given the awe-inspiring race between Hillary and Barack in the Democratic party. I happily got to vote this past Super Tuesday. From the beginning I have been a supporter of Hillary. Then I started to hear this [...]
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 [...]
23 January 2008
My teenage heart is broken.
Forever-love for Agent Cooper notwithstanding, my heart is broken.
It is Regents week for New York State, which means testing, testing, testing for the kids and lounging about bitching and wisecracking for the teachers. My particular schedule yesterday kept me in the school until 7pm last night. It’s not natural for anyone to [...]
