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re-up, re-up 22 August 2008
6 favorite things at this moment:
1) daniel hart tracking mad violins on his 32nd birthday. that’s like a birthday present to all of us.
2) hbo’s smash hit series “the wire.” all seasons. all characters. especially omar (duh.)
3) seeing a pack? gaggle? of wild turkeys cross the yard after a storm. nature. how foreign to me. we of the city race are at first extremely suspicious, then giddily awestruck by the natural world.
4) such soft spot for david mamet. so pragmatic! so economic! shotgun dialogue! screenplays and theater theory for the new american recession.
5) the south. i like my sweet tea cut with regular tea and my peanut shells thrown on the floor. maybe i’m just a country girl at heart.
6) patton oswalt’s “black angus” routine. it stretches far beyond comedy. omg.
i hope everybody’s safe and happy.
xo
ac
Long absence, Short wave 22 July 2008
thank you all for coming to castle clinton. i couldn’t have wished for a more beautiful day to debut lots of new material. thanks for your multicolored sunshades.
you know who has a really sweet blog? el perro del mar. that’s the way a blog should be done.
in norway we met a girl from a town above the arctic circle. she reminded me of the werner herzog film “encounters at the end of the world” about antarctica.
going into the studio in a couple weeks. like going into battle with a dragon. hopefully i’ll emerge triumphant with the head of beast…and some pop classics for the whole family to enjoy.
xxx ac
Listening: Pattern is Movement’s “All Together”
Reading: The Elegant Universe & Blood Meridian & 3 Uses of the Knife