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aside from feeling tremendously lucky to have just seen Joanna Newsom play at a small, homey SF venue, the thing that occurs to me after watching her today is: she's ---really really--- good. That harp is something else; it makes all those ethereal noises, sure, but the thing itself is such a ridiculous body of an instrument, and by all accounts is ( Read more... )

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Cirrcuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---

--(e.d.)

basic reconstruction of an IM i had w/ my friend who passed on news of Hunter S. Thompson's felo-de-se ( Read more... )

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more dreams about a new house. these started up about a week or two ago; this is the third (or fourth) of them and by far the most intricate, detailed, intense .... looking at an older LJ posting reveals it was just over a year ago that i was having house dreams (and none in the meantime, to my recollection ( Read more... )

was speaking to Greg Q. today about producer George Martin ... Greg was telling me Martin flew planes for the British military "in the war," so I asked him, "you mean World War 2?" And Greg came back with: "Yeah. The 'other' war to end all wars."

love that.

just walked back from Lucca's Deli* eating an ice-cream bar in the freeezing cold, a simple pleasure i will for sure be taking to my grave ( Read more... )

a most excellent trip to davis this weekend, to see the peeps. i got to see most everyone, and everyone is doing their lovely davis thang ( Read more... )