Happy Birthday
July 7th, 2008Happy Birthday Toni Arruda.
Wherever you are.
assorted betwixts and betweens
She has a new cd out and you can listen to the full album at her site: JenniferMinuto.com
You can then buy it in MP3 format from Digstation.com encoded at 192 kbps VBR and that includes album art and liner notes.
In the spirit of “88 Lines about 44 Women” I’d like to offer a small memorial to a number–22 to be exact–of people that I have lost along the years. Honestly, these lines are not brilliant, and some of them are not even good, but I have tried to communicate at least one essential element [...]
. . . that taste great together:Link (This post dedicated to Jeff Jacoby for turning me on to The Flaming Lips and for seeing them live together at the 9:30 Club and for being the type of friend that makes me a better person. We’ve not talked in a while and I miss his rascal attitude that helped balance out [...]
Back in high school, Nick McNab and Chris Nuzum were my best friends. I don’t remember which of them turned me on to King Crimson, but every time I hear the song “Elephant Talk” I can’t help but think back to those years, listening to Nick’s copy (tape of course!) of “Discipline” (King Crimson) over [...]
My thanks to Jo Cose for letting me use one of his photos as my header. I will eventually try to get some of my own pics back up there, but I really liked this one and was in the mood for something a bit more aesthetically pleasing than the polaroid snapshots.
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The same trip up to RI, I was able to hang out with Vanessa for a couple of drinks. By the way, Vanessa is really damn cool, y’all! And Perishable Theatre rocks! As much as, at the time, I felt miserable working as Perishable’s Office Manager, I loved–love–the theatre itself and what it stands for [...]
Listening to you sing…
watching you play…
talking of dreams and projects, creations…
It’s been 13 years since we’d seen each other and the years have added to both of our spirits in some good and some painful ways. The pure idealism and belief of our our late teens/early twenties may have become a bit tattered, or at [...]
I’ve read a good 800 or so pages of books in the last three days. WHHHEEEEE! Ask me about Augusto Boal and Theater of the Oppressed. Go on, ask me anything you want.
Last night I went to Warsaw and saw Minus the Bear, and mewithoutYou (there were a couple of other bands performing, but I [...]