Archive for September, 2009
hear all the bombs fade away
So I was supposed to start this new thing tomorrow where I wake up at 4:45 and swim for an hour and a half before work, but my veins are a-buzz with electricity and my ears are still ringing from what I’m officially declaring The Best Gig of My Life.
So it looks like the new [...]
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Tags: Colin Meloy, gigs, Nashville, Ryman Auditorium, The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
no good deed goes unpunished
In my literary life, there is love and there is hate. I rarely close a book and say, “Eh, it was just okay.” If I don’t like it, I put it down. But if I love it, I refuse to let go of it.
Almost everyone I know who has read or attempted to read Wicked, [...]
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Tags: Gregory Maguire, literature, Wicked
it’s time to try defying gravity
“It’s not lying; it’s looking at things a different way.”
Some people were raised on rock ‘n’ roll, and while I was to a point, too, I was mostly raised on musical theater. My grandmother was always involved in some drama guild or other, and during the years we spent living with her, our bedtime stories [...]
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Tags: Andrew Jackson Hall, Broadway, musicals, Nashville, plays, theater, TPAC, Wicked
Aside from today being one of the most fantastic days I’ve had in a long time–including no less than a three-hour roadtrip, a tour of Graceland, and Lisa-Marie standing next to the Lisa Marie–I also had one of the most poetic experiences of my life.
After standing in the humidity, staring down at the spot where [...]
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Tags: Arkansas, bridges, Elvis Presley, Graceland, Lisa-Marie, Mark Twain, memories, Memphis, Mississippi River, roadtrips, summer, Tennesse, the South, thunderstorms, travel, Walt Whitman
