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Flickr Test
I’m posting this picture of Donald Fagen for a couple of reasons. One, I’m getting psyched for the Steely Dan concert coming up on August 7 in Atlanta. Autumn bought me tickets for my birthday (also in August). Secondly, I wanted to test the Flickr posting of a picture to my new Blogger account. I [...]
Gilberto Gil on Music
In a recent Wired article, Gilberto Gil discusses the responsibility of being a musician: More than a sound, though, tropicalismo was an attitude. It was, in Gil’s words, “no longer a mere submission to the forces of economic imperialism, but a cannibalistic response of swallowing what they gave us, processing it, and making it something [...]
Earthshine
On certain nights When the angles are right And the moon is a slender crescent Its circle shows In a ghostly glow Of earthly luminescence Earthshine A beacon in the night I can raise my eyes to Earthshine Earthshine A jewel out of reach Form a dream to rise to Earthshine Floating high In the [...]
Chamber Music XIII
Go seek her out all courteously, And say I come,Wind of spices whose song is ever EpithalamionO, hurry over the dark lands And run upon the seaFor seas and land shall not divide us My love and me. Now, wind, of your good courtesy I pray you go,And come into her little garden And sing at her window;Singing: The bridal wind [...]
