How I Learned My Lesson: A Blog
Posted on March 31st, 2012 in Diary
well, not exactly… will blog proper a bit later (seriously, i promise) but have been shoving things into my eyes and ears all month long and sometimes it’s difficult to get away. i need a dumptruck to unload my head… so consider this… that. Recently read books: The Autobiography of Malcolm X Black Postcards A [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2012 in New York
Am seriously thinking about buying a boom box and only listening to cassettes from now on. I don’t own any cassettes but I think the way to re-spark a personal relationship with music is to limit the options. If I want to hear the first B 52s album, I will have to buy it on [...]
Posted on March 2nd, 2012 in Diary
found some childhood drawings while going through folder of old stuff. apparently i was never not one giant knot of angst…
I actually saw Lou Reed on the street today. I was sitting with my dogs in front of my local cafe on 11th St and he was coming up the street, walking quickly to the West, having, what I hope was a very happy 70th birthday… even if he hung up on me last year [...]
Posted on February 29th, 2012 in Music
nothing to add to the flood of sadness out there already, just, every monkees song fascinated me and left me feeling really happy (the point) and will play a bunch today. from davy on the brady bunch to the 80s mtv re-runs, i felt like they were as much mine as my parents generation’s band. [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2012 in New York
The New York City three to five dollar umbrella: no more shall we part: I sometimes wonder how many of those cheap, black umbrellas I’ve gone through in 20 plus years of living in the City. The umbrellas themselves mark my entry into urban life. When I was a kid im the suburbs, we had [...]
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