look ma…no hands!

30Nov07

search for a tune by SINGING AT YOUR COMPUTER.  gaaadaaam.

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antony

29Nov07

if it is your will
leonard cohen
damn.  i’m tryin’ so hard to get you the cover of hallelujah that rufus and martha wainwright sing in the leonard cohen movie (I’m Your Man), but i’m having no luck.  it kills.

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Mark Strand “Keeping Things Whole”

29Nov07

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing…
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

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free art

28Nov07

Last night I watched Festival Express which is a not-very-good documentary about the 1970 Canadian train tour /slash/ festival that included the Dead, the Band, Janis Joplin, Buddy Guy, etc. etc. There’s no drug use in the whole film with the exception of some spiked Canadian Club at the end of the film, which [...]

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Kismety

26Nov07

Because I’m a little bit worried paranoid confused anxious curious about how the kosmos does the do, here’s a band that has come up several times in “conversation” today: Vampire Weekend.  You can’t buy much of them on the apple thingie, but I think the cambridge song is the better one.  a student mixtape from [...]

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Shameless

26Nov07

Only $27.95!!   The list of contributors is AHEM amazing, and include former NEA head Bill Ivey, J. Mark Schuster, Francie Ostrower, Lynne Conner, Bob Wuthnow, myself and Dan Cornfield, Henry Jenkins and Banessa Bertozzi, Eszter Hargittai and David Touve, Joel Swedlow, Barry Schwartz, Gabriel Rossman, Paul DiMaggio and Toquir Mukhtar,  Richard Peterson, Bonnie Erickson, and [...]

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And…discuss!

19Nov07

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I aint a playa, I just crush a lot.

15Nov07

wet panties.  no, not that.
(man.)

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Don’t should on yourself

13Nov07

A list of things they should do. If only I ran the place, I’d tell them so.

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Britney sayz Gimme More!

07Nov07

I’ve been sleeping on this link from Peter until I could watch it myself. The argument is that several whole genres of music have their start–not only their start but their whole substance–in an unwavering dedication to a six second piece of music recorded in 1969. This is the Amen! break.
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