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Midweek Music Break: Jim James/The New Multitudes, “Talking Empty Bed Blues”
I posted a few months ago about a recent project, led by Bob Dylan, to record the “lost notebooks” of Hank Williams. It so happens that 2012 marks the centennial of the birth of another great songwriter (and Dylan hero), Woodie Guthrie; and a new album, The New Multitudes, has just been released, of Guthrie’s [...]
The Propagational Library (1): The Finding
[Image: The Beginning (gouache on paper, 15x21 cm, 2010), by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox] (Have you already read the Introduction? If not, please jog on over there now. This will still be here waiting for you.) On the cold August morning on which Gabe Naude heard his doorbell ring for the last time, it rang when he had [...]
Sitting, Silent, Open-Minded
[Caption: Vicar's wife (sympathisingly): "Now that you can't get about, and are not able to read, how do you manage to occupy the time?" Old Man: "Well, Mum, sometimes I sits and thinks; and then again I just sits." For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Meditation has nothing to [...]
Midweek Music Break: The Playmates, “Beep Beep”
I’ve been thinking for a while of doing theme-type Midweek Music Breaks for a little variety, such as one on car music: songs about cars. As opposed to conventional “road trip” music, I mean, or songs by groups named after cars (like The Fleetwoods, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and, uh, The Cars). I may still do [...]
Life by a Thousand Cuts
[Image: "Webster's New Inner Diction" (2007), by Brian Dettmer] From Neil Gaiman’s Twitter feed, I learned of the artwork of Brian Dettmer. Dettmer uses surgical tools — scalpel, tweezers, and such — to dig down into books and other media (such as cassette tapes), revealing deep layers of what might or might not be meaning in [...]
The Propagational Library (Introduction): The Librarian
[Image: The Beginning of Everything: Remembering Distance (oil on linen, 90 x 180 cm, 2010), by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox] That’s what it said (on what would have been the little placard on what would have been his desk — if he had required a desk in the first place): The Librarian.
“Basking in the Glow of an Imagined Future”
[Image: illustration from a December 20101 post, "The Time Travelling Brain," at the Neuroskeptic blog. The orange-highlighted region of the brain is apparently used both in remembering the past, and imagining the future. See also this article in Discover.] in spite of everything which breathes and moves, since Doom (with white longest hands neatening each crease) will [...]
Midweek Music Break: Ciara Sidine, “Take Me Down”
[Image: "Ciara and Conor [Brady], acoustic set, Shadow Road Shining launch at Sugar Club, Dublin, 13 May 2011″ (from her FB page)] The [mostly imaginary] scene: Dublin, Ireland, in the offices of a large publishing firm, sometime in the still young twenty-first century. An experienced, highly respected editor sits looking dreamily out a window of her [...]
A Face Only a Mother Could Love
We’re thinking of physically reconfiguring our network equipment here at the house. Currently, the DSL modem and router are upstairs in my office — at the far end of the house — where they’ve been since we moved here ten years ago. Since then, things have changed: The Missus no longer has a desktop computer. [...]
Ready (or Not) for Surprise
[See the note at the foot of this post for information about this video.] From whiskey river: I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. There’s a certain humor in realizing that. I can never figure out the kind of tie to put on in the morning. I don’t have any strategy or [...]
