Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 17th, 2007
It Distresses Us To Return Work Which Is Not Perfect
When I hit the pay-per-view button I was expecting to be mildly amused by the movie Venus, but I had no idea that it would be very nearly perfect. It wasn’t the movie I was expecting to see at all. I am in awe of writing so intricately nuanced — bleak and unsentimental, yet suffused [...]
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
Sky Blue Bells Ringing
Here’s a song that did not bubble up from the depths of my iPod. I heard it for the first time just the other night at an extraordinary open-mic show. I was stunned and amazed. The boy/girl, guitar/mandolin duo performing the song there was English, and at first I thought it must be one of [...]
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
And It’s True That I Stole Your Lighter
When I was making my first baby steps towards recovery from Devastationalism, at the sunset of the 90s, one of the angels the universe sent my way was a gushingly creative, spiritually magnetic man called Steve Pagnotta. Steve was an owner/manager of Tortilla Flats (which made him my ostensible “boss”) and he had the rotten [...]
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
That’s When I Threw The Bottle In The River
A Devastationalist spends way too much of his or her life being blown about like a leaf, drifting passively in and out of jobs, homes, relationships, rarely if ever daring to actively exercise the power of choice. To choose, of course, implies desire, and desire is the bane of a Devastationalist’s existence — at best, [...]
