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Archive for May 2008

Muxing it Up

In Music on 31 May 2008 with no comments

I’ve finally joined the rest of the digital world (it always takes me a while) and created a muxtape.
Without much ado: the teeny mix mux.

soul in zen

In quote on 28 May 2008 with no comments

“There is a tempering that needs to go on, an acknowledgment of our vulnerability and all the things that we don’t know. The simultaneity of our wisdom and our foolishness. This is “The Clearly Enlightened Person Falls into a Well” koan. You can actually have a very deep understanding of the spiritual world and still […]

The Book

In books, poetry on 27 May 2008 with 3 comments

This was my favorite book of all.
My mother bought this big boy home around 1998 from her job. It was one of my constant companions through late night reading sessions, attempting to grasp concepts that I didn’t understand. There are still quotes written on the inside cover, barely there in pencil and pressed flowers from […]

Another Paris Snapshot: the boy in the café

In Paris, People, Uncategorized, french on 23 May 2008 with 1 comment

There are endless moments in life you want to capture, so picturesque and ideal, that the world, conspiring against you, makes an impossible task. So instead we commit the moment to memory, determined to explain it as best as possible when the opportunity arises.
I nearly forgot about him, the boy in the café, until I […]

Under The Lights: Finally Posting bout E. Badu

In Music, concert on 20 May 2008 with 1 comment

Under The Lights, originally uploaded by tstrong_06.

From the moment she slowly sauntered on stage (straight to the middle of the stage and then she turned and backed up slowly till she got to the microphone). Her black mini-dress was hot, billowy and perfect, with a tall black hat. She’s another one of my central […]

Savages

In books on 19 May 2008 with no comments

After a few hours of reading I’m nearly 100 pages into Roberto Bolano’s Savage Detectives. A mammoth of a book thats tearing into me rather quickly. I missed my train stop today (I actually woke up as if from a daze to realize I’d road two stops past) I was so engrossed. The first part […]

The Hottest State

In books on 14 May 2008 with no comments

I’ve picked up Ethan Hawke’s book The Hottest State.
After checking out a few new performers, I got turned onto Jessie Harris* who wrote the soundtrack for the movie (performed by Feist, Norah Jones, Cat Power and more), watched a preview for the movie and decided that I needed to buy the book this afternoon.
Its not […]

I’m a better daughter than you*

In Uncategorized on 14 May 2008 with no comments

I’m practically the Blazey of daughter-hood.
Flying my awesome and amazing mother to New York over Memorial Day weekend as part of a Mother’s Day/Birthday Present.
Planning a small meet and greet with my NYC family over dinner on Saturday or Sunday and showing her around the hood. I am very excited.
(*ok, this isn’t exactly true, I […]

Literary sampling

In Movies, Music, Writing on 13 May 2008 with no comments

Two days after I posted the passage from White Teeth, I was reading through the archives of the Paris Review and came across a W. H. Auden interview (which is brilliant by the way) where he quoted a line from his poem which appeared in the New Yorker: “Thousands have lived without love, not one without […]

Blame it on Fidel

In Movies on 12 May 2008 tagged films, french cinema with no comments

When I told my new french friend that I’d watched before sunrise a few times, he said, “well, you’re either a hopeless romantic, or a you’ve been bitten by the french bug.” To which I of course replied, a bit of both. I’ve decided to live up at least to the latter by renting a […]