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Review: KGB Monday Night Poetry – Justin Marks and Timothy Liu
Justin Marks just lost his job. He apologized in advance of his reading for being unprepared and distracted but, as someone who just lost his own job, I can tell you that such things are often blessings in disguise. For the audience at KGB Barit turned out to be an opportunity to hear some Read more
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Watching The Wheels – Mike’s Musical Monday
…I just had to let it go. It seems fitting that since I launched this blog with one of John Lennon’s tracks from Double Fantasy, I’ll kick off the second year with another. I recently lost my job (where did it go? I just had it) and feel no urge to find another one. Sometimes Read more
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Review: Darcey Steinke In Conversation with Rick Moody
“Let’s start with the bad sex. In the basement of the Word Bookstore in Brooklyn, Rick Moody said that he and Darcey Steinke would be talking about bad sex, among other things, in relation to her new novel Sister Golden Hair, published in October by Tin House Books. It turns out Ms. Steinke has a Read more
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Happy Blogday
One year ago today I posted the first entry to my blog. Titled “(Just Like) Starting Over,” it was about quitting the band Late Model Humans and trying out this new adventure. For the first 9 months I was religious about the blog, posting 3 times a week: music on Mondays, fiction on Fridays, and Read more
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Days
I found an old friend over the weekend: the twelve-string guitar I used on this song. But I’ve been losing more old friends than finding them lately. Some of them are coming back but others never will. And with some of them, I don’t know yet. The first thing people feel when they lose someone Read more
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Mostly You
I wrote this song last week. It reminded me of The Kinks’ “Too Much On My Mind,” at least lyrically, so I added the harpsichord. Just a little something to pass the time. I didn’t get much sleep last nightThere’s too much on my mind Mostly youMostly youMostly you but other things too Like ugliness Read more
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