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Entries from January 2008

Inspiration is waiting in the wings…

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments

…so while we’re waiting for her, let’s make a video!  Yes, this is Ryan Adams.

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Tags: music

Ryan writes Carolina. Elton sings it.

January 20th, 2008 · No Comments

A live recording by Elton John of Ryan Adams’ “Oh, My Sweet Carolina,” from EJ’s 2002 Australian tour. Great performance and piano-playing, despite the Muppet-hands. The lyrics have a startling similarity to those from the early John/Taupin compositions, which I assume Ryan Adams has a fondness for.

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Tags: music

Jawbreakers

January 19th, 2008 · No Comments

During the split second that I became suspended in air, I looked up and saw her eyes, big as jawbreakers

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Tags: fiction

If I could get just one little bitty piece, that would stop the craving.

January 18th, 2008 · No Comments

While most people would recoil at the thought of eating mud or clay, some medical experts say it may be beneficial, especially for pregnant women.

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Tags: food · ideas

Screenings: The music of Atonement

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Music permeates every moment of this movie. The sounds of objects in the film ricochet off of the musical score like instruments in a contrapuntal symphony: the click of a cigarette lighter, overhead lights being switched on in an infirmary corridor, the busy clacking of the typewriter keys and wrrrrhh of the platen as the paper is ripped from the carriage.

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Tags: film · music · Screenings

Pete Yorn is thirsty.

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Bottle of red wine ($20 min), preferably a cabernet (please include a bottle opener!)

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Tags: food · music

Pair Try Suicide, Recant, Recover

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

And that was why Dorothy Monet, 18, artist and fashion designer, was in Lincoln Hospital yesterday with Peter Martono, 25, a Puerto Rican, who slashed her wrists and his.

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Tags: film · Uncategorized

Retail Encounter, Op. 1 “Piano Concerto”

January 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I need Rachmaninoff’s Warsaw Concerto in Blue.

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Tags: music

Monty Python is people!! (nudge, nudge)

January 13th, 2008 · No Comments

In honor of the upcoming 6th, 7th or 8th season of American Idol on Tuesday, here are some tidbits from a recent Newsweek interview with the encyclopedic, all-knowing pop culture mind of AI runner-up Clay Aiken.

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Tags: Uncategorized

A potentially messy undertaking

January 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Like everyone else, you urinate. And at other moments you drink. What you do not know is what it feels like to do both at the same time. This experiment will show you.

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Tags: ideas