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Sunday, May 30th, 2021

🦋 Cover Voice

With Dylan turning 80 there was a lot of talk about him on the social media sites this week. In one thread we were talking about cover versions and someone pointed out that there are certain songs it's difficult to cover without slipping into an affected "Bob Dylan" voice; his examples were "Stuck Inside of Mobile" and "Idiot Wind". (I pointed out "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" fits into this category as well...) Elswhere Morris Windsor posted this astonishing cover of Stuck Inside of Mobile by The Soft Boys, playing at Slim's in San Francisco in October 2002 (the Nextdoorland tour) -- when/if I try playing the song I am going to find it difficult to avoid slipping into an affected "Robyn Hitchcock" voice.

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Saturday, May 16th, 2015

🦋 Ragtime in D

Ragtime in D

The Modesto Kid
at Lonesome Nickel Studios in South Orange, NJ
May 16, 2015 (my birthday concert, sort of! :))
  1. "Rag Mama" (Blind Boy Fuller, Jim Kweskin)
  2. "Here I Go" (Syd Barrett)
  3. "Clean Break" (Jeremy Osner)
  4. "Drinkin Wine (spo-dee-o-dee)" (Granville "Stick" McGhee)

posted afternoon of May 16th, 2015: 3 responses
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Thursday, December 25th, 2014

🦋 Christmas wishes

May all your tidings be explicitly comfortable and feasibly joyous; may all your glory be in the highest.

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Saturday, April 5th, 2014

🦋 Mark your calendars...


In the neighborhood? Drop me a line!

posted morning of April 5th, 2014: 1 response
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Saturday, March second, 2013

🦋 Happy Birthday, Robyn!

He celebrated 60 years in style at the Village Underground last night.

Here he is singing about seafood with Morris and Kimberley and other heavy friends; and about new formations.

Got my tix for The Venus 3's April show at Webster Hall!

posted afternoon of March second, 2013: 1 response

Saturday, February second, 2013

🦋 The bard turns 131 today, in China

Happy Birthday James Joyce! (And Happy Birthday, and thanks for the link, to Aaron as well!) You are a bestseller in China these days.

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

🦋 Happy 225th, your Lordship

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went--and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires--and the thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings--the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed,
And men were gathered round their blazing homes...

-- Byron

(Thanks AWB for bringing this to my attention)

posted evening of January 22nd, 2013: 4 responses
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Monday, May 21st, 2012

🦋 Pix of the Party

Darcy had her new camera along when she came over on Friday, and she got some great photos --- a selection is at the Family Album for your viewing pleasure.

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Friday, May 18th, 2012

🦋 Books for my birthday

A great party this evening! Some friends gave me books. Thanks, Janis! Thanks, Mariana!

  • Becoming Jimi Hendrix
  • Antigua vida mía
  • Manual de pintura y caligrafía
  • El siglo de las sombras
  • La culpa
  • Peanuts Guide to Life
Other friends gave me bottles of wine, also much appreciated; and Ellen and Sylvia gave me a spatula in the form of a Stratocaster. (Spatucaster? Stratula?)

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Saturday, May 12th, 2012

🦋 Countdown

Prak nodded again.

"Forty-two," he said, "yes, that's right."

He paused. Shadows of thought and memory crossed his face like the shadows of clouds crossing the land.

Today begins the final week of my forty-second year of life.

posted morning of May 12th, 2012: Respond

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