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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bonjour, mes amis. I write you from a cold, rainy afternoon in Nashville. I am off to hear some classical music tonight and to drink some kind of warming liquor to help me better match moods with this sad-faced evening. I have been remiss in my latest correspondences, which is to say – there haven’t [...]
Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan
In this brand new book, America’s greatest music writer pulls together a career-worth of commentary about America’s greatest songwriter. With Bob Dylan, Greil Marcus offers up insights and criticisms, notions and associations about pop music’s greatest singer/songwriter. Perhaps no writer is as closely associated with a musical artist as Marcus is with Dylan and this [...]
Boom! For Real!
What up, peeps? Hooked up with the painter Matt Carver today to check out the Basquiat doc The Radiant Child. I really enjoyed it. If you’ve stayed up late at night searching for every piece of film the man has appeared on you’ll recognize much of the footage and many of the photos, but hearing his [...]
Johnny Ramone Wants You!
Check out this fun, new animation from the Johnny Ramone Army! Also, check out the third installment of the BBC’s Seven Ages of Rock. This chapter is entitled “The Blank Generation” and it covers the punk revolution on both sides of the Atlantic. We’re particularly taken with the great Patti Smith footage that starts at [...]
Phone Booth Knife Fight
Bon soir, mes amis. PHONE BOOTH KNIFE FIGHT phone booth knife fight knife booth phone fight booth knife phone fight knife fight booth phone knife phone fight booth booth phone knife fight booth fight phone knife phone booth fight knife fight knife booth phone booth phone fight knife fight knife phone booth fight booth knife [...]
Otherwise
Otherwise Loneliness is an old friend who respects your privacy. He knows when to interrupt. A person alone is a limb on the water and a flash in the black. We have much to offer, but only to the desperate. Happy people rarely call, and we can always cling to ourselves. Solitude is solid, and [...]
The Morning Girl
The Morning Girl The Morning Girl pulls her morning hair up and ties it above her head: A bouquet of auburn curlicues, each offering a morning prayer beneath that magnificent cobalt. The first morning of Autumn finds her walking home from the market, slightly swinging a plastic bag, rectangled at the bottom by a carton [...]
Teeth Baby
The herd of gazelle charges through my living room; all snort and grunt and gallop and black horns swaying above white-panicked eyes. I can smell that cheetah smell: bad news and spotted speed. A small calf strays in the back, passed the coffee table, towards the kitchen, away from the crowded safety of the herd. [...]
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Welcome, one and all to the annual St. Patrick’s Day edition of Insomnia! Every year I enjoy using this forum to present us – one and all – with a greeting of sorts on this, the yearly Wearing of the Green. On with it: HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! THIS IS YOUR DRINK: THIS IS YOUR [...]
Deep and Crisp and Even
Hey all and all and then some, Really feeling the spirit today. Was recently, nearlyreduced to tears of joy hearing “Feliz Navidad” at thebean aisle in Kroger. Check out this performance of the song, live in Denmark in 1973.Hippest caroling ever! Regardless of your religio/mystico/philosophical relationship to the world without and within, this season really [...]
