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Archives for July 2004
With Two Cats in the Yard…
On Wednesday Erin and I closed on a new townhouse in Reston, VA. Actually, it’s not new. It’s almost forty years old.
It was designed by Charles Goodman, a modernist architect whom The City Paper profiled last year.
It has windows spanning the entire front and back of the house on the second floor, so I guess I’ll have to stop throwing stones.
Snuff Music
So I get the following Dylan concert bootleg “review” in my email from a friend this morning.
Great 2 CD set from one of my favorite periods. This contains the complete circulating soundboard tape, missing some of the girls’ material, and Dylan’s Mr Tambourine Man, the opening Saved and an instrumental jam. This final night of the European tour was marred by tragedy. A concert goer fell into the power grid and was electrocuted. All power was lost at the end of Slow Train, and Dylan and the band improvised acoustic songs on stage until it was restored. The tragedy multiplied when, emerged into darkness, another girl died after falling from a retaining wall. The show must go on, and so it does. And what a show it is. Dylan is focused and powerful. A fantastic effort from all, and the soundboard recordings are near perfect…
The New American Songbook?
On Friday I was walking down U Street with Julian and we saw a poster for Nellie McKay, a fresh-faced recording artist on the Sony label with music “rooted in the taut, witty tradition linking Cole Porter, Elvis Costello and Eminem.”
As ridiculous as the description sounds, it’s reasonably accurate. I would, however, allow for a dash of Avril Lavigne (McKay bears the usual dose of American teenager angst).
Her debut album, Get Away from Me, is available at Amazon and the iTMS. Very interesting. Pick it up.
Plastic Dining Chairs
The little lady and I are in the process of selecting random unmatched chairs to use at a dining room table. We’re buying a few at a time and our intent is to stick primarily to mid-century and current contemporary design. Yesterday we ordered the following, which should be delivered in the next few weeks.
We’re also considering the following possibilities:
Any other ideas?
Removing Deprecated Language
When we change the name of a place, why don’t we change the names of things that refer to the place?
- Peking Duck should be Beijing Duck.
- The Bombay Company should be The Mumbai Company.
Dewey Defeats Truman
When every other media outlet in the hemisphere is reporting that Edwards is Kerry’s man, you can be sure of one thing. Somebody at the New York Post is going to lose his job over this.
Get yours while supplies last!
