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Demo: Your Grace
All the songs I post to this blog, like the writing and drawing posts, are rough sketches for more professionally produced versions that may or may not ever see the light of day. I find it helps to get an idea down in some form while it’s fresh in my mind with the intention of Read more
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Review: Printing Women at the New York Public Library
If you find yourself in freezing mid-town Manhattan and need a place to duck into for warmth you can always do worse than the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue between 40th & 42nd Streets. And if you go by January 31, you can explore Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570-1900 on the third Read more
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I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Lullabye
You woke up something slumbering peacefully inside me Something powerful Something beautiful Something painful Now there’s no way to put it back to sleep To knock it out To get it drunk and take advantage of it It has me and it will not let go Constantly clenched Waiting for the final blow Just an agonizing Read more
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I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Do You Think I’m Crazy?
Do you think I’m crazy Darling? Either way, You’re probably right I’ll defer to your judgment because I don’t trust my own My mind is such a… What? Funny thing? Train wreck? Constellation of super novas? Series of elusive mys ter ies? Dead end street? You are such a… You are a snow-capped mountain Read more
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High and Dry
A friend of mine has been recommending Radiohead’s The Bends album to me for years and I finally got it for Christmas. It’s a great collection, beginning to end, but High and Dry stood out for me immediately, both musically and lyrically. I know that feeling. I used to think of myself as a trainwreck Read more
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David Bowie
I was a kid – ten years old or so – when i found this 45 for a nickel at a school rummage sale. I’d heard the song on my AM radio. Space Oddity. It was weird and fun and melodic, and the singer had a great voice. I was just discovering music and this Read more
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