Archive for August, 2009
My love for Grimey’s New and Preloved Music knows no bounds. In the midst of the Great Broken Car Saga of last week, I wandered in the record store on 8th Ave South to attempt some music therapy. I left with The Weakerthans’ Reunion Tour LP and The Decemberists’ The Crane Wife LP, which, for [...]
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Tags: 3rd & Lindsley, gigs, Great Lake Swimmers, Grimey's, Lightning 100, music, Nashville, Nashville Sunday Night, Rhett Miller
music is my boyfriend
Yesterday wrapped up my photographic trip down the musical alphabet, so I thought in honor of that, I’d post a few of my favorites from the A – Z set. I have to admit to being pleasantly surprised by how some of these turned out, and I imagine I’ll be incorporating other projects like this [...]
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Tags: 365, pictures, music, photos, self-portraits, A-Z, flickr
so let us down if you must
It is with regret and disappointment that I make the following admission:
I have officially given up on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and the Infinite Summer challenge along with it.
As of last week, I was 200 pages behind schedule, and much as I really did love Wallace’s writing, I didn’t feel like spending four months [...]
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Tags: Bernhard Schlink, Infinite Summer, literature, The Little Prince, The Reader
