December 2010
10 posts
John French's tribute to Don Van Vliet
While touring in the UK in 1975, there was a concert we played in a medium sized hall somewhere lost in time, where a bus brought in a group of about 16 wheelchair-bound individuals. After the concert ended, we were headed for our bus when Don stopped and watched as the handicapped individuals were tediously loaded one by one onto their bus. Our bus driver, a bit impatient, called out that we...
Julian Assange - book thief! →
Item description from the University of Melbourne’s library.
The funnest table in town: Van Morrison meets R.D.... →
“The first number I played you “In The Garden” right? I’d been explaining that that is an actual meditation process. If you actually listen to that song and go into meditation, by the end of it you should be - if you’re following the thing attention wise - you should be in a state of transcendental mediation by the end of it. Because that’s what it is that...
Could Obamacare have prevented the Jigsaw... →
The Saw films prove that state-run death panels cause less suffering than free-market death panels.
Don’t speak too soon « LRB blog →
Where ‘The Times They Are A Changin’ ended up.
Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: A Parable →
lazybookreviews:
Three writers have been invited to participate in a reading at the Harvard Advocate. John Ashbery, Jamaica Kincaid, and Salman Rushdie.
Following the reading, there is a Q&A. The students busy themselves to ask the most self-aggrandizing questions possible. This is common enough.
One student…
The Angry Youth of a TV Naturalist
Chris Packham: “I was 26 going on 16. I’d just started working on The Really Wild Show in Bristol for the BBC but prior to that I’d been a very angry and antisocial young man. I remember sitting on the train in winter, looking out at grey days, scuttling up the tracks to Bristol, and listening to the Jesus & Mary Chain and feeling that it really did reflect my entire...
John Prine: A concert in Ireland, from Roger... →
