Author Archives: andrew

I'll Be a Blue Moon

Given that my last update was inspired by hearing a Big Star cover, it’s only fitting that last Wednesday’s tragic news about Alex Chilton (Big Star’s lead singer and songwriter) should bring me back to the blog. Big Star was … Continue reading

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Name Me

I’m considering changing the name of this blog – to what, I’m not sure. Spring will be here soon, and as the Earth itself begins to blossom again, so do my ideas and thoughts, in ways that are less conducive … Continue reading

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Moments in Song: Burlington

Carla and I are leaning against a rock on Church Street in Burlington, VT, enjoying the unseasonably warm November day. The scene surrounding us is a perfect cross section of hippie and hipster, college kids and dropouts. People rush in … Continue reading

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Knife Show Redux: The Dark Underbelly

By now in the history of this little blog, can I assume anyone reading is familiar with Tom O’Dell and his wonderfully bizarre late-night cutlery-hawking enterprise? If not, click the links. I’ll be here when you get back. Caught up? … Continue reading

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Hey, Wha'appen?

Screw the conventional blogging wisdom (ie. "don’t apologize or otherwise even acknowledge that you haven’t been posting"). This is not an apology, just an update of sorts. If nothing else, it’s for me, so I can keep tabs on just … Continue reading

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Critcize me, civilize me.

I discovered a few weeks ago that my inner critic sounds a lot like Jay Sherman. And not Jay Sherman as normally seen in any episode of The Critic, but Jay Sherman locked up in a mental hospital in a … Continue reading

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Out Of My Head

Tuesday night I sat in on a songwriter’s group in Brunswick, organized by Jud Caswell. We did quite a bit of “object writing,” ie. taking an object, person, or situation, and describing it in as much sensory detail as possible, … Continue reading

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Hopefuller

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flick A literate country – a hopefuller country… – Former Leader of the Free World, George W. Bush Recent events have transpired to make me less despairing of the future. Here, in rambling, semi-coherent form, … Continue reading

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I think I'm being told something, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Don’t be frightened to display your talents. – Brian Eno‘s Oblique Strategies, as just seen on Twitter Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded. – Fortune cookie taped to my monitor

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Thursday Frivolity, Lebowski-style

The Man has seen fit to remove the Kenny Rogers audio from my Lost Skeleton/Big Lebowski mashup. That being said, I’m not the only one doing wacky audiovisual things with that classic of bowling, ‘Nam, rug-peeing, and Caucasians. In the … Continue reading

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